What that looks like in Pasadena.
A page on working inside a landmark district, with the permit center and design review named and a finished Craftsman kitchen or rear addition pictured, is the page that gets a Pasadena owner to call. It should say plainly how you keep original woodwork and windows, and how you draw an addition that the review board will pass.
ADUs in Pasadena run through the city’s pre-approved ADU program, which offers designs already reviewed by the city, and through custom review for everything else. Lots in the older neighborhoods are deep, and owners want a unit that looks like it belongs behind a 1915 house. An ADU page that shows one does the selling.
Hastings Ranch and the hillside neighborhoods, Linda Vista and San Rafael, are a different job. The Ranch is 1950s tract houses with original kitchens and owners ready for a full remodel, and the hillsides carry the hillside ordinance and long driveways. A page for each, with projects from each, tells the owner you know their street.