Tag: dadu

July 1, 2019

My family lives in a house in our friends’ backyard + What ADUs can (and can’t) fix in our city

I live in my friends’ backyard along with my spouse Kelli and 16-month-old daughter. We all worked together (well, the baby didn’t really help) to build a new house where a carport and patchy weed-filled yard was previously. And in the end it cost about as much or maybe a bit less than buying a…
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tagged: city council, dadu, mike o’brien
May 31, 2018

We are building a backyard cottage, and city rules make no sense + Hearing Thursday

Our daughter Fiona will not have a closet in her room growing up because city rules for building backyard cottages require us to build an extra car parking space for a car we don’t own. Debates over building codes and zoning often get bogged down in acronyms and percentages that lull most people to sleep.…
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tagged: adu, Backyard cottages, dadu