Multifamily ADU

A multifamily ADU can make a difference on your property. It can help utilize existing space, generate additional rental income and increase the overall value of your multifamily property.

Working with Los Angeles ADU Builders to design and build your unit is a smart move. With over 20 years in the building industry, we have the skills and experience to build a beautiful, timeless, and functional ADU.

Multifamily ADU Los Angeles

Maintaining Privacy in a Multifamily ADU Property

Privacy helps to limit access to sensitive information, possessions, and personal spaces. Privacy fosters psychological well-being and personal relationships by promoting individuals to have private thoughts, reflection, and self-expression. When building a multifamily ADU Los Angeles, you want to provide all these benefits to the unit’s occupants.

This is how you can go about it:

  • Consider soundproofing: Soundproofing using double-pane windows, wall seals, etc., can help reduce noise transmission between units.
  • Use individual entryways: Separate entryways for each unit eliminates shared hallways and entrances, enhancing personal space and privacy.
  • Optimize interior floor plan: Work with ADU experts in Los Angeles to design the units so that areas such as the bedrooms and bathrooms are away from common areas increasing privacy for the occupants.
  • Use window treatments: Use window treatments such as blinds or frosted glass to give residents control over their privacy by allowing them to regulate the amount of natural light and visibility from outside.
  • Physical barriers and layout design: ADU builders in Los Angeles can help ensure that areas such as the balconies and the outdoor areas are positioned in a way that reduces direct visibility into neighboring units, hence enhancing privacy.

ADU Regulations and Permits for Multifamily Property

In Los Angeles, you can add one ADU or use up to 25% of the existing multifamily residence to build ADUs (whichever is greater). You can also add 2 other detached ADU (they can be connected or separated).

Something else, building a multifamily ADU Los Angeles will require you to obtain the building permit and submit other applications for approval. Fortunately, when you hire ADU Builders, we will handle all this paperwork for you. We will also update you on the process, leaving no room for confusion or misunderstanding.

Here is what needs to be submitted to the planning department.

  • A full set of architectural plans (site plan, floor plans, and elevations)
  • A land use application
  • Photos of your property
  • Building permit application form
  • Residential System Development Charge Form

ADU Layout Ideas for a Multifamily Property

A multifamily ADU Los Angeles needs to be well-designed to accommodate the needs and preferences of the occupants. Some solid ideas that may interest you include the following.

Studio apartment style This layout maximizes space efficiency by combining the living, sleeping and dining area into a single space. It has a separate bathroom and a kitchen.
One-bedroom apartment style This layout features a separate bedroom, a living room, a kitchen and a bathroom. The living room usually serves as a common area for relaxation and entertainment, while the kitchen can be designed with essential appliances, counters and storage space.
The loft style design This layout utilizes vertical space by adding a loft area. The ground area is usually designed with a living area, kitchenette, and bathroom, while the loft area is designed as a sleeping area which is accessed with a ladder or staircase.
Two-story ADU style This layout features two-level areas where the ground floor can be designed for a living room, kitchen, and bathroom while the upper-level houses one or more bedrooms.

Los Angeles ADU Experts

Contact a Multifamily ADU Expert

Consider working with Los Angeles ADU Builders to design, handle the permit process and build a stylish and functional ADU on your multifamily property. We have the skills and experience to bring your dream ADU to reality. Contact us at 877-797-3485 and talk to our friendly team about your ADU project.

FAQs

It usually takes 60 days from the day you pay the permit fees for the planning department to review and approve or deny an application. Within these 60 days, the department may contact you for corrections on your plans and provide a deadline to resubmit.

There are several ADU designs you can opt for. There are modern, traditional, contemporary, or A-frame. Each of these has its unique characteristics and preferred materials to be used.

It can take an average of 18 months to build a multifamily ADU. During this duration, you can expect your Los Angeles ADU construction service experts to be busy designing the ADU, submitting the building permits and building the unit.

Technically, no. In Los Angeles, you are allowed to rent out your ADU for long-term rental use that is 30 days or more but not for short-term purposes, which Airbnb usually falls under.

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