Editordude: The Rag is forced to quote from today's UT about this important City council hearing yesterday, Tuesday, March 4; we will have some follow-up hopefully in the days ahead.
By David Garret / San Diego Union-Tribune / March 5, 2025
San Diego is substantially rolling back a controversial city incentive that allows the owner of a single-family lot to build potentially dozens of backyard apartments on it.
The City Council voted 6-3 Tuesday to eliminate the program in eight types of single-family neighborhoods where lot sizes tend be larger than other single-family neighborhoods.
The goal is preventing abuse of the program by developers who target what city officials call “outlier” lots: large, unusually shaped lots that allow more backyard apartments than city officials ever intended or imagined.
Council members said the compromise they reached will retain the positive aspects of the program, such as producing more housing relatively quickly, while eliminating some of the biggest negatives.
The council also voted in favor of other significant changes to the controversial incentive, which is formally known as a bonus accessory dwelling unit program. City officials call backyard apartments accessory dwelling units, or ADUs.
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