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What Are the Impact Fees for ADU Conversions in San Diego County? - YouTube
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All right, so
today I want to talk to you
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about fees that we were
running into for an ADU project
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that we are getting
ready to start building,
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and why the County of San
Diego is charging us for this.
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So this is not a very common scenario
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that the county has run into.
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And we had a very difficult
time actually getting answers
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from the county on what
they were actually gonna do
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as far as charging us for this.
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So if you are building an
ADU, you'll look into this,
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that the county, and it
looks like they're waiving
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the impact fees, which
are like your tip fees,
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your park fees, they're even
waving your septic fees,
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your septic layout fees,
your septic permit fees.
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If you're on a septic.
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So they're waving these fees
that you would normally have
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to pay if you were building a home so.
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And typically you have a
single-family dwelling,
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primary dwelling already on the property,
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and then you're adding say a
1,200 square foot detached ADU
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to the lot.
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Now, that's pretty common.
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That's probably your most
common scenario of an ADU
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that's getting added to a
property within San Diego County,
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and that you will not pay your impact fee.
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So the park fees are waived,
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you're not paying your
traffic impact fees,
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and you're not having to
pay your septic layouts
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of the permit fees, all right?
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So this instance of what we have now,
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and we just got the building
permit issued on this,
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is we have an existing property
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that has an existing home on it,
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so it does have an existing
single-family home, however,
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the owner is wanting
to build a larger home,
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a 2,500 square foot home, on this property
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and convert the existing home,
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which is about 1800 square
feet to 1,000,or 1,025
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or 1200 square foot ADU.
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And the existing home
was becoming the ADU,
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and then the new home
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is becoming the primary
single-family dwelling
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on the property.
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So this is where the issue comes in.
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This is where the county goes
and says, "Not run into this."
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And they came back to us
after lots of back and forth
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and said, "Yeah, you do
get to pay the impact fees
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because you're converting the structure.
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You're not adding an ADU,
you're converting it to an ADU,
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and then you're adding a home."
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So they're using the verbiage that says,
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"It has to have an existing
single-family dwelling,
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and then you add an ADU in
order to charge these fees."
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However, what they are doing
is they're reducing the fees
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a little bit.
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So the park fees, instead
of being almost $7,500,
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they are charging us $3,366.
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And actually, that's plus
another $284 and plus another $73.
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So whatever that adds up to you,
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that's about, what is that,
about $3,700 or so dollars, $3,738
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that is going towards park
fees instead of the $7,500.
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So there's a little bit of
a discount because of that.
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So they call that their
ADU parked improvement fee
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instead of a single-family
dwelling park improvement fee.
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And then they're charging
us the septic layout fee.
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They're also charging
us a septic permit fee.
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Those are together about $2,200 - $2,300.
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And then they're also charging a TIF fee,
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so the traffic impact fee.
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So that on this particular one
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in the area in Ramona is $2,635.50.
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So that is a reduced fee.
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And from or the original tip fee would be
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for like a single-family dwelling,
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which would probably be
closer to the $4,000 range
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somewhere in there, it varies
on if you're the non-village
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or village areas.
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So they are taking
advantage of the situation,
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even though the actual end
product is, you have an ADU
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on the property that's 1,200 feet
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and you have a single-family
dwelling that's 2,500 feet
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they would waive that if you were doing it
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in the opposite order.
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So if you already had single-family,
it stays single-family,
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and you added the ADU,
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you would not have to
pay these impact fees,
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but because you're doing it the other way,
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they'd make you pay 'em.
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So we're trying to find the
common census around this.
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And why they're making this determination,
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but regardless, we've been back and forth,
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back and forth, back and forth.
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And this is what they've come to tell us.
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And they haven't given us a discount,
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but it's definitely not
what we feel it should be.
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But is something that you
should definitely consider.
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If you do run into this scenario
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where you're converting
existing family home to an ADU,
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and then building the primary residence.
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So you gotta factor in
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that you're gonna be paying
those additional fees,
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which in this instance
here, shoot, it's like,
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so we said about $3,800, almost
$4000, $6000, $7000 plus the fees
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for the septic, you're almost
permitting $8,000 to $10,000
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of additional fees that you'll
have to pay in impact fees,
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if you're on a septic
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and then you're doing
the ADU conversion so.
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All right, so hopefully that's
helpful in heading that off
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if you're looking to do a
similar project to this,
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and it'll help you calculate
what you're going to spend so.
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All right, if you'd like more
information on build an ADU,
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building a home, or buying land,
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visit our website at tfgonline.com.
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Thanks a lot.
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Have a great rest of your day.
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