Combined with its lot split provision, SB9 let homeowners turn one home into as many as four. But three years later, ...

SB9, or the California Housing Opportunity and More Efficiency (HOME) Act, mandated cities permit an additional residential unit on parcels zoned for single-dwelling units. It allowed for a total ...

Two days after California’s new split-lot law took effect ... Palo Alto was among the cities that opposed SB9, arguing in its letter of opposition that the by-right approval process that ...