Oxnard--The City Council held a study session during its Tuesday, April 2, meeting and took a wait-and-see approach to advancing Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) regulations authorized under California Assembly Bill (AB) 1033.
THE regulation intends to create opportunities for home ownership by allowing property owners to create an Accessory Dwelling Unit as a condominium.
Mayor Pro Tem Bryan Macdonald said AB 1033 is a nightmare waiting to happen.
“I see all kinds of issues, between lot line splits, the sale of ADU units that are all on a single lot when they should be on a split lot,” he said. “Then you have lot line adjustments, and it’s not going to do anything to increase taxes. There will probably be a property tax increase. I don’t see that happening because if you split the lots, each lot will have lower taxes.”
Planning & Environmental Services Manager Joe Pearson II presented the video and said ADU 33 authorizes a local agency to adopt a local ordinance to allow the separate conveyance of the primary dwelling unit and ADUs as condominiums. This is a change from the prior law, AB 587, where the separate conveyance of an ADU was prohibited except…
