ADUs & Additions in Valley Village

Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety (LADBS). Private pools in the City of Los Angeles are permitted through a Combined Building-Mechanical permit, while pools serving more than two dwelling units need separate building, electrical, plumbing and mechanical permits. Using a City of Los Angeles standard plan on file with LADBS reduces plan check time. Valley Village is covered by the Valley Village Specific Plan (Ordinance No. 168,613, effective April 4, 1993), which limits one-family buildings to 30 feet in height. Under the City's applicability matrix for the plan, LADBS checks a new or altered pool or spa for a single dwelling against the plan without a separate City Planning clearance, while new houses, additions, exterior alterations, demolitions and site grading all require one. We prepare the drawings, make the submittal and handle plan-check corrections ourselves, so you are not the one chasing plan check.

Level single-family lots on residential streets such as Hesby Street, La Maida Street and Bellaire Avenue, with apartments and condominiums concentrated along Burbank Boulevard, Riverside Drive and Magnolia Boulevard. In LA County Assessor parcel data the median single-family lot is roughly 7,600 square feet, and about four in five of those houses were built between the 1930s and the 1950s. One local condition that shapes the work: Valley Village sits entirely outside the City's Hillside Grading Area, so hillside grading rules do not apply and slope or retaining work seldom drives the budget.

All of it, including Huston Street, Otsego Street, Hartsook Street and Addison Street. 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.