Santa Monica building & ADU permits
Recent permit activity, updated continuously.
Santa Monica is a coastal city in western Los Angeles County with its own building and safety department. The city publishes its active building permits as open data under the ODC-BY license, which Igni surfaces with the required attribution to the City of Santa Monica.
Igni is tracking 575 residential and building permits in Santa Monica, CA — including 38 classified accessory-dwelling-unit (ADU) filings. The most active ZIP is 90405. The most recent filing Igni tracked was Sep 25, 2026. All records come from data.santamonica.gov (CKAN), an official government open-data feed, and are refreshed continuously.
575
Permits tracked
38
ADU permits
5
Distinct ZIP codes
Sep 25, 2026
Newest permit
Recent permits
A sample of the freshest permits in this jurisdiction — ZIP and city only (no street addresses).
| ZIP | Permit type | ADU type | Valuation | Applied |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90402 | Residential | Basement conversion | $30,000 | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 90403 | Commercial | — | $12,000 | Jun 9, 2026 |
| 90401 | Commercial | — | $1 | Jun 25, 2026 |
| 90401 | Commercial | — | $45,000 | Mar 31, 2026 |
| 90401 | Commercial | — | $45,000 | May 12, 2026 |
| 90405 | Residential | Detached ADU | $90,000 | Feb 19, 2026 |
| 90403 | Residential | — | $1,000 | Jun 25, 2026 |
| 90401 | Residential | — | $17,000 | Jun 11, 2026 |
| 90403 | Residential | — | $59,310 | Jun 26, 2026 |
| 90402 | Residential | — | $16,000 | Jun 10, 2026 |
| 90401 | Commercial | — | $81,000 | May 6, 2026 |
| 90403 | Residential | — | $42,324 | May 29, 2026 |
| 90402 | Residential | Attached ADU | $500,000 | May 7, 2024 |
| 90403 | Residential | — | $9,000 | Jun 29, 2026 |
| 90405 | Residential | — | $34,352 | Jun 24, 2026 |
| 90405 | Residential | — | $2,000 | Jun 25, 2026 |
| 90402 | Residential | — | $6,000 | Nov 10, 2025 |
| 90405 | Residential | — | $60,000 | May 11, 2026 |
| 90403 | Commercial | — | $12,000 | Jun 23, 2026 |
| 90405 | Residential | — | $221,869 | Dec 15, 2025 |
Top ZIP codes by recent activity
ADU types in the recent set
Housing law — California
California mandates ministerial (by-right) approval of accessory dwelling units statewide, with a 60-day decision deadline and one ADU plus one junior ADU allowed on most single-family lots; owner-occupancy is generally not required.
SB 9 allows by-right duplexes and urban lot splits on single-family lots, and newer transit-oriented upzoning (SB 79) phases in from 2026.
Data source
Sourced from data.santamonica.gov (CKAN). ODC-BY 1.0 (attribution required).
Attribution: © City of Santa Monica (ODC-BY 1.0)
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