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City of Lemon Grove — preapproved ADU plans

City of Lemon Grove ( County) posts 1 preapproved accessory dwelling unit plan on its own website, verified 2026-08-03.

Agency: City of Lemon Grove
County
Plans posted: 1
Verified: 2026-08-03

What’s posted

The city's ADU page has a live, working 'Lemon Grove Preapproved ADU Plans 2025 UBC' PDF (design by YWR Architects) plus supporting Site Plan Guidance and Engineering Comments PDFs, all hosted on lemongrove.ca.gov and free to the public.

Gap from a fully compliant program: Only 1 plan design is posted; applicant/designer contact info is not shown alongside the plan.

Sources: https://www.lemongrove.ca.gov/our-government/community-development-department/planning-division/current-planning-information/accesory-dwelling-units-adu/, https://www.lemongrove.ca.gov/media/upxnztgk/lemon-grove-preapproved-adu_preapproved-plans-2025-ubc.pdf

ADVERSARIAL RE-CHECK: initial generic web search suggested stale 'no plans approved' info. Direct fetch of the plan PDF confirmed a real, large binary file. Second independent reader-proxy fetch re-confirmed the same live link.

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 Lemon Grove’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 Lemon Grove’s plans have moved or you find an error, write to [email protected] and we will correct this page. Back to the full catalog.