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Roseville planning commission recommends council approve changes to ADU rules
Summary
The Roseville Planning Commission voted to recommend that the City Council approve amendments to Title 19 (File PL26-0134) to align accessory dwelling unit rules with recent state law, switch size limits to interior livable space and clarify local standards including a new half-size limit for attached ADUs and removal of an administrative variance process.
The Roseville Planning Commission voted to recommend that the City Council approve an amendment to Title 19 of the Roseville Municipal Code (File PL26-0134) that updates the city’s accessory dwelling unit (ADU) rules to reflect recent state law.
Lauren Hawker, senior planner, told the commission the amendments were designed to “make us consistent with state law or otherwise clarify and improve the readability” of the ADU chapter and highlighted two key state-driven changes: basing ADU size on interior livable space rather than gross square footage, and changes to which combinations of ADU types must be permitted. Hawker said those changes can allow larger ADUs in some cases; she gave one example in which a house with 1,400 gross square feet translates to about 860 square feet of interior livable space and would therefore qualify under the new…
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