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Page 7 of 13 <br />City of Redwood City 1017 Middlefield Road, Redwood City, CA. 94063 Tel: 650-780-7000 www.redwoodcity.org <br />an ADU on their property with budgeting, design, permitting, construction, and renting <br />assistance, including one-on-one consultations. Their website contains handouts, a step-by- <br />step guidebook, regulatory information for multiple cities, and an ADU calculator, which helps <br />estimate the costs, fees, and financial benefits of constructing an ADU. The SMC ADU <br />Resource Center is funded by participating jurisdictions, Home For All San Mateo County, and <br />various non-profits. Redwood City staff participates as a member of the Resource Center’s <br />steering committee to help ensure it is making a significant impact in ADU development. In <br />the future, the City will partner with the SMC ADU Resource Center and other participating <br />jurisdictions to study an affordable ADU program. <br />o Established a pre-review ADU plans program consistent with AB 1332, which allows design <br />professionals to obtain pre-approval of their ADU designs and allows homeowners to browse <br />through ADU plans pre-approved by the City. The City has developed new checklists and plan <br />routing processes to ensure it can meet statutory timelines for review and approval of pre- <br />approved plans. The City’s ADU website has been updated with new resources for the ADU <br />pre-review program and pre-reviewed ADU plans will also be posted on the SMC ADU <br />Resource Center website. <br />o Co-hosted the “Peninsula ADU Tour” with prefab ADU-manufacturer Inspired ADUs on August <br />10, 2024. The event included a self-guided tour of 17 ADUs in Redwood City and other <br />Peninsula communities and a free Info Hub event in Downtown Redwood City. The purpose <br />of the event was to increase public awareness of the benefits of ADUs and to support <br />members of the community with information about how to permit and build their own ADUs. <br />The Info Hub included a live construction demonstration of a panelized home kit and booths <br />where members of the public could interact with and ask questions of City staff and vendors <br />specializing in ADU design, construction, permitting, and financing. Over 300 members of the <br />community took part in the self-guided tour and 200-250 visited the Info Hub. <br /> <br />The City engaged a transportation consultant to study and analyze opportunities to reduce parking <br />standards for housing for people with disabilities, affordable housing, and senior housing, in order to <br />reduce the cost of producing these housing types. The study also examines opportunities for reducing <br />residential parking requirements beyond these types of housing. City staff is currently finalizing the <br />study in consultation with the consultant. Additionally, in November 2024 the City submitted a grant <br />application to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) for $300,000 in funding to help <br />support the City in reaching compliance with MTC's Transit Oriented Communities (TOC) Policy <br />regarding parking, which would establish maximum parking requirements within 1/2 mile of major <br />transit stations, including Redwood City’s Caltrain Station. MTC is scheduled to announce grant <br />awards soon. Staff anticipate studying and developing proposals for City Council consideration that <br />would establish maximum parking standards aligned with the TOC Policy and that would implement <br />parking standards consistent with Housing Element Program H4-7 by the end of 2025. (Program H4- <br />7: Revised Parking Standards) <br /> <br />6.A. - Page 7 of 52 <br />16