BRADENTON — Manatee County has officially adopted revised regulations for issuing building permits for Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs). The new rules eliminate the 750-foot size cap and end the blanket restriction on the number of subordinate units.
The change comes after the Director of Development Services issued an administrative determination memo in December 2023 to the county zoning official and planning division managers, creating an exception to the existing code requirements for ADU permit approvals.
The determination memo cited in part “conflicting requirements” within county land development codes that led to “practical difficulty and unnecessary hardship” for some ADU permit applicants…