{"id":124,"date":"2026-11-02T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2026-11-02T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T11:00:00","slug":"southern-california-housing-laws-target-construction-if-you-think-its-expensive-to-hire-a-professional-wait-till-you-hire-an-amateur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/02\/southern-california-housing-laws-target-construction-if-you-think-its-expensive-to-hire-a-professional-wait-till-you-hire-an-amateur\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern California Housing Laws Target Construction | If You Think It&#8217;s Expensive To Hire A Professional; Wait Till You Hire An Amateur!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/zana-l-cooper-410790\/new-housing-laws-remotion-videos-c386\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>Southern California ADU builders got a break: fees now applied only above 750 sq-ft, a change expected to save thousands of dollars.<br \/>\nNew rules aimed to ease townhouse approvals on small vacant or long-unoccupied single-family lots, creating starter-home options and requiring faster local approvals when projects qualify.<br \/>\nIn the LA metro, where ~74% of land was single-family-only, the update opened a narrow path for multiple for-sale townhouses on qualifying lots.<br \/>\nAnother change asked cities for early good-faith infrastructure estimates, helping Southern California builders spot sidewalk, utility, or traffic-signal costs before construction advanced too far.<br \/>\nEven with new tools, results may vary because many provisions stay narrow, local size limits remain, and cities still keep public-safety exceptions.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southern California ADU builders got a break: fees now applied only above 750 sq-ft, a change expected to save thousands of dollars. New rules aimed to ease townhouse approvals on small vacant or long-unoccupied single-family lots, creating starter-home options and requiring faster local approvals when projects qualify. In the LA metro, where ~74% of land [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}