Pre-approved ADU plans in Los Angeles

Every pre-approved ADU plan set available in Los Angeles, from the LADBS Standard Plan Program, with size, bedrooms and price for each.

A pre-approved plan is a design the building department has already reviewed for code compliance. Filing one does not skip plan check, and it is not a permit. What it removes is the structural and life-safety review of the design itself, which is the part that usually comes back with corrections.

In the City of Los Angeles these come from the LADBS Standard Plan Program. The plans below are the ones A-du has published from that catalog, each with its own page carrying the size, bedroom and bathroom count, the plan price and the designer. For how the program works, what it does and does not shorten, and how to file one, see the LADBS Standard Plan Program explained.

16 plans published here, every one of them free to download, ranging 280 to 1,044 square feet.

The plans

Once you have picked one

A plan is the cheapest part of an ADU and the last thing that decides whether one can be built. What the lot allows, what the city requires and what the permit costs are the parts worth checking first.