ADU Builder in Pacific Palisades, CA

Where the house is standing, a Palisades ADU is permitted by LADBS like any other City of Los Angeles ADU: a detached unit in the yard, a garage conversion or a JADU inside the house, drawn to the setbacks and height limits of state ADU law. The roof, vents, walls and glazing of a new unit are built to the California Wildland-Urban Interface Code (LA County code summary), and on a Coastal Zone parcel we check the coastal review and bluff flags on ZIMAS before the design starts. The kitchen and storage inside come from our own workshop, sized for a small floor plan.

On a rebuild lot, an ADU can be built with, before or after the main house under Executive Orders 1 and 8, it does not count against the home's floor area, and a detached ADU is by-right with no coastal permit when it sits at least 10 ft from a canyon bluff and 25 ft from a coastal bluff. Under the Governor's order N-9-25 the ADU can receive its certificate of occupancy before the house. These rules are set out in City Planning's Palisades rebuild FAQ, section I.C of the City's EO 8 Implementation Guidelines and the Governor's order N-9-25, and a lot inside the LADBS geohazard zones also needs the geology and soils reports described in bulletin P/BC 2026-157.

Before the fire, Pacific Palisades was almost all single-family houses, most of them owner-occupied and built before 1980 (ACS 2024 5-year; the figures are below). (Source)

ZIP 90272, before the fire: about 80% owner-occupied, about 77% of owner-occupied homes valued at $2 million or more, median year built 1967, about 70% of homes built before 1980 (ACS 2024 5-year, collected 2020 to 2024, Census Reporter).