{"id":115,"date":"2026-10-21T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertlist.com\/blog\/?p=115"},"modified":"2026-10-21T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T10:00:00","slug":"california-streamlines-small-lot-home-approvals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desertlist.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/21\/california-streamlines-small-lot-home-approvals\/","title":{"rendered":"California Streamlines Small-Lot Home Approvals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/arturo-duran\/california-small-lot-remotion-videos-53ec\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>The state law created a 60-day ministerial approval path for subdivisions with up to 10 homes on eligible infill sites when requirements were met.<br \/>\nFor qualifying projects, approvals bypassed environmental review and public hearings. In multifamily zones, new small lots needed at least 600 sq-ft each.<br \/>\nCity standards capped avg. floor space at 1.75K net habitable sq-ft. For the 10-unit cap, multifamily zones excluded ADUs and JADUs.<br \/>\nFor the 10-unit cap, single-family zones excluded only JADUs. Los Angeles had pioneered small-lot housing earlier through a local ordinance encouraging compact ownership.<br \/>\nThe law aimed to expand homeownership opportunities, but whether these projects functioned as starter homes remained open. Later changes opened vacant single-family lots to redevelopment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state law created a 60-day ministerial approval path for subdivisions with up to 10 homes on eligible infill sites when requirements were met. For qualifying projects, approvals bypassed environmental review and public hearings. In multifamily zones, new small lots needed at least 600 sq-ft each. City standards capped avg. floor space at 1.75K net [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertlist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertlist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertlist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertlist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertlist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertlist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertlist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertlist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertlist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertlist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertlist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}