Thanks to California laws making accessory dwelling units ... to keep all of the new plumbing in the addition so we wouldn't have to trench through the existing slab," Mohr says.

which might explain why the house fell out of escrow multiple times, even in L.A.’s red-hot real estate market. Other flaws: The electrical wiring was not up to code. Nor was the plumbing.

That was the guiding ethos for House of Two Writers, a detached, two-story ADU in the city’s Atwater ... two walls along the property line and a slab on grade. Not only does this preserve ...

The first project to be supported would amend coastal development and site development permits to add a 1,170-square-foot accessory dwelling unit ... finding a concrete slab near a deck, he ...

Thanks to California laws making accessory dwelling units ... to keep all of the new plumbing in the addition so we wouldn’t have to trench through the existing slab,” Mohr says.