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City of Escondido — preapproved ADU plans

City of Escondido ( County) posts 4 preapproved accessory dwelling unit plans on its own website, verified 2026-08-06.

Agency: City of Escondido
County
Plans posted: 4
Verified: 2026-08-06

What’s posted

The city's Pre-Approved ADU Program (PAADU) page states four pre-approved ADU building plans are available to the public for download and use, downloaded via the city's ProjectDox permitting portal per instructions on the page.

Gap from a fully compliant program: The page itself does not list individual plan names/sizes/bed-bath counts directly (details require going into ProjectDox), though third-party sources describe four sizes (484/644/851/1,000 sf, with the two largest currently unavailable for exceeding the 800 sf state cap).

Source: https://escondido.gov/1207/Pre-Approved-ADU-Program-PAADU

Fetched agency's own PAADU page successfully; it states plans are available for download via ProjectDox. Did not independently fetch ProjectDox portal to enumerate exact files. Adversarially re-verified 2026-08-06 by an independent re-fetch agent: escondido.gov/1207 explicitly states 'Four pre-approved ADU Building Plans are available to the public for download and use' and links guidebook/process/options handouts on the agency's own DocumentCenter; individual per-plan download buttons weren't extractable via this tool (image/JS-heavy page), but third-party ADU builder pages (snapadu.com) independently corroborate specific named/sized Escondido PAADU plans (e.g. Plan 2 - 644sf 2bd/1ba, Plan 4 - 2bd/2ba) sourced from the city's own program, consistent with the claimed count of 4.

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 Escondido’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).

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Data from Civic Data Works’ AB 1332 compliance scan. If City of Escondido’s plans have moved or you find an error, write to [email protected] and we will correct this page. Back to the full catalog.