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City of Encinitas — preapproved ADU plans
City of Encinitas ( County) posts 8 preapproved accessory dwelling unit plans on its own website, verified 2026-07-30.
- Agency
- City of Encinitas
- County
- Plans posted
- 8
- Verified
- 2026-07-30
What’s posted
The city's ADU page describes the Permit-Ready ADU (PRADU) program and posts 8 preapproved master plans for download - Design Path Studio (350 sf studio, 555 sf 1BR/1BA, 745 sf 2BR/2BA, 938 sf 3BR/3BA) and DZN Partners (224 sf studio, 499 sf 1BR/1BA, 990 sf 2BR/2BA, 1,199 sf 3BR/3BA) - and states designers/architects may submit their own plans for city preapproval.
Sources: https://www.encinitasca.gov/government/departments/development-services/policy-planning-housing/policy-planning/accessory-dwelling-units, https://www.encinitasca.gov/government/departments/applications-and-information/accessory-dwelling-unit-adu-or-permit-ready-accessory-dwelling-unit-pradu-permit-application
encinitasca.gov returns 403 to direct fetchers; page content retrieved via reader proxy of the live URL. Plan list and third-party submission process confirmed from fetched page text. Adversarially re-verified 2026-07-30: fresh independent reader-proxy fetch rendered the 'CITY PREAPPROVED PRADU PLANS' section with all 8 plan download links (Design Path Studio 350/555/745/938 sq ft; DZN Partners 224/499/990/1,199 sq ft), each an encinitasca.gov/home/showpublisheddocument URL.
Any other agency can adopt these plans
Cal. Gov. Code § 65852.27, added by Stats. 2023, ch. 759, amended by Stats. 2024, ch. 7 (SB 477) (§ 65852.27(a)(5)) lets any California local agency admit into its own program plans “A local agency may also admit the following accessory dwelling unit plans into the program: (A) Plans that have been developed and preapproved by the local agency. (B) Plans that have been preapproved by other agencies within the state.” A city or county without a preapproval program of its own can post City of Encinitas’s plans as part of its own program instead of designing new ones — see the full statewide catalog for more options.
We build and maintain the program page, the plan library and the required third-party submission path for agencies that want to stand this up: $1,950 setup + $3,600/year (year one all-in $5,550).
Data from Civic Data Works’ AB 1332 compliance scan. If City of Encinitas’s plans have moved or you find an error, write to [email protected] and we will correct this page. Back to the full catalog.