ADU Builder & Contractor in Los Gatos

Los Gatos has two kinds of ADU projects and they barely resemble each other. Down on the flats near downtown and around Blossom Hill, you are working with older homes on established lots where the constraint is space and mature trees. Up in the hills, the constraint is the ground itself: slope, access, drainage, and getting materials to a site that a concrete truck cannot easily reach.

As an ADU builder and contractor in Los Gatos, the first thing we do is establish which project you actually have. That determines the budget more than square footage does.

State ADU law has removed most local discretion. It restricts how far a jurisdiction can limit unit size, parking, and owner occupancy, and it mandates ministerial review, meaning a compliant application is approved without a discretionary hearing.

Los Gatos is a town rather than a city, and it runs its own Community Development Department for planning and building permits. The submittal requirements, plan check comments, and inspection scheduling are the town's, not the county's and not the neighboring city's. Los Gatos also applies hillside development standards to properties above the flats, and those affect grading, height, and how visible a structure is from off site. We handle that process directly, so you are not the one chasing corrections between plan check rounds.

We run ADU projects as design build, so the same team handles design, permitting, and construction. The alternative, where a designer produces a set and hands it off at bid time, is where budgets tend to break, and it breaks worst on complicated sites. When the people drawing the unit are the people building it, the plan reflects real costs and real site conditions from the start.

It also means one point of contact. Homeowners searching for ADU contractors near me are usually trying to avoid coordinating four separate parties, and a single general contractor removes exactly that. Our ADU contractor services page covers what each phase includes.

If you are considering an ADU in Los Gatos, the useful first step is a straight conversation about what the parcel allows and what it will take to build. Get in touch with our team and we will take a look.