Up to 10 small homes you can sell one by one

The rule

• SB 684: a lot zoned for apartments, up to 5 acres.
• SB 1123: an empty lot zoned single-family, up to 1.5 acres.
• 10 lots and 10 homes at most.
• The map is approved by staff, with no hearing. The City has 60 days to decide.

The numbers

What you can build

• Build the homes with no setback between them. The building code decides the gap.
• Skip parking within a half-mile of transit; elsewhere 1 space per home at most, never required to be covered.
• Pull building permits before the final map records.
• Keep an existing building on a remainder parcel that doesn't count toward the 10.
• Sell each home on its own lot. Nobody has to live there.

What it doesn’t allow

• Use land in a High or Very High fire hazard zone.
• Use a lot where a tenant lived in the last 5 years, even if the building is gone, or any rent-controlled or income-restricted housing.
• Call a single-family lot empty if it has a house someone can live in. Vacant means no permanent building, unless it is abandoned and uninhabitable.
• Build fewer homes than the floor: at least 66% of the zone's maximum density, or the count the City's housing element gives the site.
• Split a lot that came from an earlier SB 9 split or from this law.
• On an SB 1123 lot, go over the City's height limit.