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Martinez adopts urgency changes to ADU rules to align with state guidance
Summary
The council approved an urgency ordinance to amend city ADU rules after receiving comments from the California Department of Housing and Community Development; changes include clarifying state-exempt ADUs, adjusting counts allowed per lot, removing non-objective visibility restrictions and updating height/parking rules.
Martinez City Council on March 18 adopted an urgency ordinance to update local accessory dwelling unit (ADU) regulations to reflect recent state law and guidance from the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD).
Planning staff summarized eight items raised by HCD, including statutory numbering fixes and a requirement to allow different configurations of ADUs…
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