General guidance only. This checklist helps you ask better questions. It is not legal or permit advice for any specific parcel, and it does not state current setback, size, or fee rules, which change. Confirm requirements with Sacramento County Planning & Environmental Review for your parcel.
Feasibility is the step before design. It asks whether a lot can support an ADU at all, and where that unit could sensibly go. Working through the items below before you pay for design drawings saves the most common expensive mistake: designing a unit for a spot the lot cannot support.
None of the items below is a yes-or-no test on its own. A lot can fail one item and still work with a different placement, a smaller unit, or a different approach — which is exactly what a feasibility provider is for.
Checklist
- Usable yard: how much open yard remains after the house, garage, driveways, and existing structures?
- Access: how would builders reach the site, and how would the finished unit be reached day to day?
- Utilities: where are water, sewer or septic, and electrical connections, and is there capacity for a second unit?
- Existing structures: sheds, patios, trees, and easements that limit placement.
- Parking and access routes: what changes if a garage is converted or a driveway is moved?
- Neighbor and boundary issues: shared fences, property lines, and anything that needs agreement before work starts.
Questions people ask
Do I need a survey before feasibility?
Not always, but a survey or accurate site sketch makes feasibility much more reliable than a guess from a satellite view.
Who does feasibility in North Highlands?
Muradu Construction's directory listing is explicitly a feasibility service. See the feasibility page for its details.
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