However no one had ever heard of 10, 12 or 18 being built in backyards but the pictures of what was springing up was undeniable.

After some investigating I found that starting back even before Covid, City and State planners were looking at increasing housing in the State of California by loosening restrictions on building and passing laws favorable to these larger developments.

In October 2020, the City of San Diego created the ADU BONUS program and the race was on. Developers quietly started buying up single family homes in anticipation of these more relaxed building laws. Commercials started appearing on television stating we will buy your home, no closing costs, etc.

In 2023 some of these smaller ADU bonus projects started appearing as 4 or 5 units in a backyard. By 2025 the floodgates were opened and these massive 10.12, and 18 units in backyards started appearing and citizens like myself noticed.

Grass roots organizations like Neighbors For A Better San Diego had been sounding the alarm since 2020, but now there was no longer any way to ignore it as these were going in on residential streets, two stories high, ruining neighbors’ privacy and creating absolutely no parking on already minimal parking area streets like cul-de-sacs.

Neighbors to these egregious projects were being bullied by the developers and turning to our City for help fell on deaf ears.

That is when I started ADUBONUS.org to help people who are fighting right now for their home’s value and their neighborhood.

We have information on how to contact the City and contractors with issues and complaints, map to show where the next set of large backyard complexes may be built, what to do before, during and after construction, neighborhood groups forming, protests and lawsuits.