In Massachusetts, the Affordable Homes Act allows homeowners to build accessory dwelling units "by right" in single-family zoning districts, meaning municipalities cannot deny an application if it mee ...

The City of Ithaca is moving forward with plans to legalize accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in residential and mixed-use ...

Telesmanic plans to use the ADU as a rental property which is a growing ... letting extended family live there — like converting an attached garage into a studio. Regardless of the reasons ...

But it’s incentivized for us to keep it at 750 square feet.” Architect Ubaldo Garcia’s standard ADU plan for the city of Madera is for a 750-square-foot home with three bedrooms, a bathroom ...

In 2022 when the City of Fresno started rolling out free, preapproved blueprints plans for homeowners to build ADUs, there were eight applicants. Last year, 56 ADU applications were submitted for ...