Adding a second home on an existing residential property is often presented as one of California’s simplest answers to its housing shortage. But for one homeowner in Palos Verdes Estates, the effort to build an accessory dwelling unit became a years-long permitting battle. A recent appellate ruling has now reopened his lawsuit, finding that California’s rules were designed to protect homeowners from precisely the kind of delays he says he experienced.
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