With names like Hideaway Haven and Hinter Haus, the Metropolis of San Antonio gives 5 permit-ready home plans property homeowners can use to construct a casita or granny flat.
Now one set of these plans for an adjunct dwelling unit (ADU) has been cleared to be used in historic districts or on designated landmark properties.
The Historic and Design Evaluation Fee on Wednesday really helpful approval for the Maricela prototype, modified to satisfy historic tips, to be thought-about a permit-ready ADU plan.
Designed by inexpensive dwelling builder Our Casas Resident Council, the Maricela is a 375-square-foot home with one bed room, one lavatory, a kitchen and a eating space. It has entrance and aspect porches, a small heating and air con unit and area for a stackable washer and dryer.
One such dwelling has already been constructed as a part of the Zarzamora Inexpensive House Undertaking.
In 2022, Metropolis Council amended the unified growth code to permit ADUs to have separate utility strains from the first construction, take away the one-bedroom restrict, limit them to 2 tales, require a parking area for bigger ADUs and permit them to be constructed nearer to property strains.
The town’s ADU plan library was created to scale back limitations to inexpensive housing and supply sources for householders to assemble indifferent ADUs. The plans got here from proposals requested from architects and builders in 2024 by town’s Neighborhood and Housing Companies Division (NHSD).
The plans are designated permit-ready to scale back the fee burden for ADU design and development.
The Workplace of Historic Preservation partnered with NHSD to pick out a plan that may very well be modified to be used within the metropolis’s historic districts and require solely administrative approval to construct.
The Maricela design plan has been modified to satisfy historic tips, together with using a plank siding product with a easy floor versus a fake wooden grain and a sloped or angled soffit element as an alternative of a boxed soffit on the gable ends.
As well as, the facade with a lined entry now options two equal-sized sash home windows on both aspect of the porch no smaller than 24 inches vast and 36 inches in top. Fake-divided lighting can be not allowed.
