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San Francisco Attached Granny Unit (JADU) in Sunset: this city lot has a 1948 single-family, two-story-over-garage in Inner Sunset. RH-1 zoning. A JADU within the main dwelling would add so much value. The garage-level layout naturally suggests a 500-sq-ft JADU carve-out, which is exactly what SF's JADU code allows (within an existing SFD, sharing utilities with the main house).

Modern wooden home in Bainbridge Island WA: 0.65-acre vacant buildable lot — ideal because there's no existing structure or current resident, and it's actively marketed. Pure greenfield "describe your house, get permit-ready plans" demo, no demolition or remodel narrative to manage. Bainbridge's R-0.4 / R-1 residential zones allow detached single-family with a DADU as a bonus story beat if you want to layer that in.

Missing-Middle (gentle density) apartment building on Berkeley's mixed-use artery Colleve Avenue. The City of Berkeley's planning staff has publicly identified exactly three sites on College Avenue as the most likely redevelopment candidates under the Berkeley Corridors Zoning Update — and 2887 College is the one. It's the strip mall anchored by the 7-Eleven at College and Russell, sitting on a deep commercial parcel in the Elmwood. City Council signaled support in November 2025 for raising the height cap on College Avenue, with a vocal contingent pushing for as many as seven stories. Even at the more conservative end of the proposal, the site comfortably accommodates a 3–4 story missing-middle building of roughly 15–30 units.