ADUs take center stage at Napa tour events

That’s a wrap – on our four big in-person ADU tour events in the City of Napa over the course of the month of November! Read more below about the events from the Napa Valley Register, and for all the details click here for the full article by Edward Booth

If you missed the events – there is still one unit on-site for the next several months and you can reach out to the company, Hybrid Prefab Homes, for a tour. PLUS - join us for an upcoming webinar - you can register right here!

For a synopsis of the events:

“Napans curious about Accessory Dwelling Units recently had four chances to check out three different prefabricated models and learn more about ADUs from people involved in the different stages of the ADU construction process.

Across the four events — which were scattered throughout November and located at the CrossWalk Community Church in Napa — about 486 people attended, according to Renée Schomp, director of the Napa Sonoma ADU Center. Most attendees were from Napa, some were from Sonoma, and a few had come from other counties.

Schomp noted that the ADUs at the event were purposefully arranged to give attendees a sense of different sizes and build types. The general point of the in-person events, Schomp said — including a series held in Santa Rosa in July — has been to educate community members about all the options that exist, with Napa County and city of Napa representatives available to give insight on that side of the process. 

“What we see time and again is we need to reduce risk and create as much clarity and certainty about the process and the price as possible,” Schomp said.

The November events also served as a kickoff to the ADU Center’s Accessory Dwelling Unit Plans Program, launched early last month. The program provides an inventory of over 50 ADU sets from a variety of companies, and about half are pre-reviewed by local government building departments for building code compliance.

The structures available at the November ADU events included a 150-square-foot micro ADU from prefabADU, a 460-square-foot ADU from Connect Homes and a 740-square-foot model from Hybrid Prefab Homes.”