For Star subscribers: Tucson has seen 61 applications for casitas since the city approved their use in December 2021, but none have been constructed yet.
Nicole Ludden More than a year after Tucson’s City Council approved the use of casitas as secondary, smaller housing units in residential areas, city staff are trying to find ways to make building the accessory units easier and less costly.
The city’s Planning and Development Services Department, or PDSD, will also move forward with a set of changes to make ADUs more accessible by providing financial assistance programs, developing pre-approved models of casita structures and creating an inventory of resources. The cost of impact fees for ADUs varies by size and type of construction. For units 750 square feet or less, the fee is about $2,750, while units above that size are charged $4,310, according to the PDSD. The total size of a casita is capped at 1,000 square feet.
State statute holds that if a municipality waives impact fees for development, it must reimburse the amount waived. The city uses general fund dollars and its Highway User Revenue Fund to pay for the impact fees it cancels, but that means instead of developers paying the fee, city taxpayer dollars will.
For the last seven months, local architect Valerie Lane has focused on creating model ADU units. The draft plans have already been approved by Pima County, Lane said, and she recently submitted them to the city for approval. While minimizing impact fees could take some money off the total, Tucson is planning to create “ADU Rehabilitation Funding” through the Housing and Community Development Department to provide financial assistance to low-income homeowners to improve an existing ADU or working on an accessory structure that can be turned into one.
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