At the Feb. 9, 2026 City Council meeting, the council adopted an ordinance approving City-initiated amendments to the Culver City Municipal Code.
On November 12, 2025, the Planning Commission unanimously approved Resolution No. 20250016, recommending the City Council adopt CEQA exemptions and the proposed amendments to the current Subdivision Ordinance and amending portions of the Zoning Code.
On February 9, 2026, the City Council unanimously introduced the Ordinance, to adopt the CEQA exemptions and the proposed amendments to the current Subdivision Ordinance and amending portions of the Zoning Code,
An ADU is a completely separate residential unit. This means regardless of whether the ADU is attached to a primary residence or detached from the primary residence, it has everything a person needs in a residence: space for sleeping, living, a kitchen and sanitary (i.e. bathroom) facilities.
Even if an ADU is attached there is no internal access to the primary residence.
A JADU is a residential unit – sleeping, living, kitchen areas – that may share the sanitary facilities with the primary residence. Since the sanitary facilities are shared, there is internal access from the JADU to the primary residence.
JADUs must be entirely contained within an existing or proposed single-family residence.
The updated rules now remove the owner-occupancy requirement for Junior Accessory Dwelling Units
Allow Accessory Dwelling Units to be sold separately as condominiums, and approve applicable exemptions under the California Environmental Quality Act.
Judith Martin-Straw
