Yucca Valley STR / Zoning & Building Permissions

[Santiago Amaya]

Hi all! I'm looking into buying a cabin in Yucca Valley to rehab and list as a STR. The plot is quite large and I'm keen to know if I can add additional properties / ADUs in the future. Does anyone know where I can find this information? Also if anyone has any advice in general on this topic, please feel free to share! Thanks

[Dan H.]

I see responses from outside CA that do not know the Ca ADU Rules.

Every residential lot in the state can have ADUs allowed. There are a plethora of laws to reference but I will provide a starting point. Note laws passed since then only make adding ADUs easier, not more difficult. For example, one from a year ago basically does not allow an ADU to be rejected due to a build issue on the property that is unrelated to the ADU.

AB68 (JADU law)
AB881
AB68
SB13
AB587
AB670
AB671

As indicated this gets you only that ADUs are allowed statewide and HOA and Ccnr cannot prevent them. newer ADU laws expand on these rights.

There is an exception though.  Sb13 protection of unpermitted units is approaching its sunset (if I remember correctly it is end of 2024).  I suspect the time deadline will be extended as the state does not want to remove safe units.  But current protections have an expiration.  

Good luck