ADUs & Additions in Long Beach

City of Long Beach Community Development Department, Building and Safety Bureau. The Building and Safety Bureau within Long Beach Community Development issues residential permits from the Permit Center on West Ocean Boulevard. The City's Local Coastal Program was certified in 1980, so local Coastal Development Permits for property in the Coastal Zone — generally south of Seventh Street, including Belmont Shore, Naples, Bluff Park and Alamitos Beach — are issued by the City before a building permit, with some decisions appealable to the Coastal Commission. Since January 2022, projects inside the designated methane zone over the Wilmington, Long Beach, Seal Beach and Long Beach Airport oil fields must submit soil gas testing and a mitigation plan prepared by a qualified professional when a grading, demolition or new construction permit is requested. Exterior changes in any designated historic district require a Certificate of Appropriateness. We prepare the drawings, make the submittal and handle plan-check corrections ourselves, so you are not the one chasing the city.

Mostly urban grid lots, often 40 to 50 feet wide with an alley at the rear, with larger parcels in Park Estates and Bixby Knolls and narrow waterfront lots along the canals. In practice that means methane zone parcels require soil gas probes and, where readings warrant, a vapor mitigation system beneath new slabs and structures..

All of it, including Naples, Belmont Shore, Belmont Heights, Bixby Knolls. We are based in Los Angeles at Cahuenga Pass, so Long Beach is a short run for our crews rather than a job we service from out of the area.

Detached ADU in this market generally runs $150,000 to $400,000+. What moves it is square footage, finish level, utility runs, and site access; garage conversions typically run well below a ground-up detached build. We give line-item pricing after seeing the site rather than quoting a number over the phone.

Plan a realistic year. Design and engineering typically take one to three months, city plan check and corrections add several more, and construction usually runs four to eight months depending on size and site access.

Usually yes, and often substantially, because the foundation, walls and roof already exist. The trade-offs are that you lose the garage, and older slabs and framing sometimes need upgrading to meet current code.

California ADU law is designed to allow long-term rental, and an ADU is one of the few ways to add rentable square footage to a single-family lot. Short-term rental rules vary by city, so confirm your local ordinance before counting on that income.

Yes. Plans, engineering, Title 24 and the city submittal are all handled in-house, including responding to plan-check corrections. That is a service we sell on its own, so it is not something we hand off.