Ten months and 10 days after January’s wildfires devastated parts of Los Angeles, the first new home has been completed.
A two-bedroom, 630-square-foot accessory dwelling unit in Altadena received a certificate of occupancy on Monday, Los Angeles County records show. The ADU, a type of structure often used as a rental unit or guesthouse, replaced a garage that burned in the Eaton fire. The lot’s primary house was not damaged in the blaze.
Manuel Lopez, a design consultant for the project, said the property owner built the ADU himself. The owner’s son lived in the garage before the fire and will move into the new structure…