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This appeal concerns a single building-permit violation: a roofline <br />extension built in February 2018 on a 1951 garage. Respondents <br />acknowledge the work required a permit. To resolve the violation, <br />Respondents filed Permit ADU22-0064 in November 2022 — an ADU <br />conversion of the garage that includes demolition of the 2018 unpermitted <br />extension as part of the approved scope. Respondents also filed Permit <br />C22-0027 at the same time for the unrelated main house renovation. State <br />law treats ADU permits as a housing-policy priority subject to expedited <br />review (Gov. Code § 65852.2). <br />Both permits have remained pending in plan check since November 2022 <br />because the City tied permit progress to a separate dispute over a CMU <br />wall and a creek-access gate. The City has held not just the corrective- <br />work permit (ADU22-0064) hostage to that dispute, but also the <br />entirely unrelated main-house-renovation permit (C22-0027) — for <br />the same forty-one months. In September 2025, Respondents formally <br />requested that the City extend the permits under California Building Code <br />§ 105.5 because plan progress had been blocked by City action outside <br />Respondents’ control. The City denied that request in writing. The City <br />then issued a citation faulting Respondents for failing to “reinstate” the <br />very permits the City refused to extend. <br />The relief Respondents seek is constructive and narrow: open both <br />permits at no additional cost, complete plan check within sixty days, <br />and allow the corrective roofline demolition and the planned ADU and <br />home work to proceed under the permits’ approved scope. <br />Timeline <br />Date Event Significance <br />1951 Garage built Predates everything <br />6.A. - Page 17 of 64 <br />19