In 2020, a California homeowner sought permission to build a second living unit on his property; he says city delays lasted over three years and cost him more than $1 million, and an appeals court has revived his lawsuit
The ruling affirmed homeowners’ right to timely ADU approvals under California’s streamlined permitting laws. Adding a second home on an existing residential property is often presented as one of California’s simplest answers to its housing shortage. But for one homeowner in Palos Verdes Estates, the effort to build an accessory dwelling unit became a years-long…
