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them of the application for an ADU. However, in accordance with state law, the surrounding neighbors or any other member of public is not allowed to request a hearing since the ADU must be approved without discretionary review. • Owner Occupancy: The City has received public comment regarding owner- occupancy requirements for ADUs constructed prior to 2020 (state law prohibits local jurisdictions from imposing owner-occupancy requirements for ADUs approved between 2020 and 2025). This was also a point of discussion between the Planning Commission at the June 24 and July 8 meetings: the Planning Commission directed staff to modify the PMC such that owner-occupancy for either the ADU or the primary residence would not be required, regardless of when the ADU was approved. This means that all ADUs do not have an owner- occupancy requirement, even those approved before 2020. Therefore, this change has been implemented to the draft PMC amendments and would apply retroactively to properties for which owner-occupancy has previously been required, as well as to new approvals. Owner-occupancy between the primary residence and a JADU, if proposed, is still required. For both an ADU and JADU, the rental period is required to be longer than 30 days. Secondly, existing language in the PMC indicates a property owner can rent both the primary residence and the ADU to a single party; this text is proposed to be deleted.2 With this deletion, the primary residence and the ADU could be rented to a single tenant or each could be rented to two different tenants, as long as the rental periods are longer than 30 days. Also, as drafted, the PMC also removes the requirement for a deed restriction for both ADUs and JADUs. The deed restriction was to serve as documentation regarding the ADU to future buyers of a property with an ADU, but the usefulness of the deed restriction has been called into question by members of the public that are interested in removing owner-occupancy requirement for all ADUs. Since the deed restriction language refers property owners to enforceable provisions contained within the PMC, and there are no provisions of the deed restriction that are not reflected in the PMC, having a recorded deed restriction appears to be an unnecessary requirement. And finally, in response to public comment submitted in course for the October 28 Planning Commission meeting, upon request by a property owner, staff would provide a pre-drafted legal document that would extinguish an existing deed restriction from the property's title and facilitate recordation of such document. • Parking: The state law carries over a number of provisions from prior ADU legislation, including that only one parking space for an ADU is required, and that parking for a new ADU is not required at all, if the ADU is: 2 The PMC will continue to include the provision that the owner of a property with a JADU may rent both the primary unit and the JADU to a single party. Page 4 of 10