ADUs & Additions in Redondo Beach

City of Redondo Beach Community Development Department, Building and Safety Division. The Building and Safety Division of the Community Development Department issues residential permits, and all applications, plans and documents are submitted electronically through the City's online permit portal. Redondo Beach has a certified Local Coastal Program, so Coastal Development Permits for property inside the Coastal Zone are processed by the City under Article 10, Chapter 5, Title 10 of the municipal code rather than by the Coastal Commission, with some decisions appealable to the Commission. A waste management plan is now required with building permits. How long review takes depends on scope and whether coastal review applies. We prepare the drawings, make the submittal and handle plan-check corrections ourselves, so you are not the one chasing the city.

Compact by regional standards: narrow, deep lots on the older south-side streets, sloped view parcels in the Riviera and Golden Hills, and small flat lots with detached-garage rear yards in the north end. In practice that means riviera and Avenues parcels drop steeply from the street, so pools frequently become elevated or partially raised structures with substantial retaining..

All of it, including Hollywood Riviera, Riviera Village, The Avenues, Golden Hills. We are based in Los Angeles at Cahuenga Pass, so Redondo 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.