ADUs & Additions in Temple City

City of Temple City Community Development Department, Building & Safety Division. Residential permits are issued by Building & Safety, part of the Community Development Department, at City Hall, 9701 Las Tunas Drive. A project must be approved by the Planning Division before its plans are submitted online for building plan review, so a new pool, pool house or addition begins with a zoning check. In the R-1 zone, an accessory structure with plumbing, such as a pool house with a bathroom, requires a conditional use permit, and pools and spas need five-foot side and rear setbacks and ten feet on a street side yard. We prepare the drawings, make the submittal and handle plan-check corrections ourselves, so you are not the one chasing plan check.

In the R-1 single-family zone, any newly created lot must be at least 7,200 square feet, and a flag lot subdivision is limited to one flag lot and needs an original parcel with at least 80 feet of street frontage and 210 feet of depth. Lot coverage is capped at 0.275 times lot area plus 1,125 square feet, and at least 35 percent of a 7,200 to 9,999 square foot lot must stay permeable, which limits how much of a yard can go to solid paving. One local condition that shapes the work: The city is relatively flat, with no major slopes or bluffs. For new construction, the code requires a lot to keep accepting any cross-lot drainage that already flows onto it and, where the finished grade leaves those drainage patterns unchanged, to stay within eight inches of the grade of adjacent sites.

All of it, including Original 1923 townsite, Downtown Las Tunas Drive, Temple City Park area and Live Oak Park area. Our crews run every job out of our Cahuenga Pass base in Los Angeles, with our own people on site.

Detached ADU: generally $150,000 to $400,000+ across Southern California. 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.