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Planning commission backs codifying ADU/JADU urgency ordinance, flags height and landscaping trade-offs
Summary
Pleasant Hill City Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend the City Council codify emergency ordinance changes implementing 2025 state ADU/JADU laws (AB464, AB115, SB9, SB543), while asking for future guidance on detached ADU height allowances and landscape screening requirements.
The Pleasant Hill City Planning Commission voted Feb. 24 to recommend that the City Council formally codify emergency ordinance amendments to Title 18 that implement recent 2025 state changes to ADU and JADU law.
Planning staff summarized the state-driven changes the city incorporated under an urgency ordinance, citing AB464, AB115, SB9 and SB543. Staff explained key points including a new measurement standard—"interior livable space"—for ADU size, clearer allowances to combine class-one ADU types (allowing a converted ADU, a JADU and a detached ADU on a single-family lot for a total of three accessory units), and that some JADU owner-occupancy requirements were relaxed when the JADU…
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