FAQ
What typically affects the budget for a SB9 lot split project in Los Angeles?
An SB9 lot split budget in Los Angeles is the cost of turning one Encino lot into two legal lots: survey and civil, a tentative map or urban lot split application, new utility services to the second lot, fencing, and carrying two lots while conditions of approval are cleared. 121 Design Build maps those items before anyone prices a house.
Direct answer
The SB9 lot split budget is survey, civil, and two lots — not a house bid.
SB9 lot split cost in Los Angeles is driven by the map, not the millwork. A surveyor has to locate the existing house, setbacks, and a proposed cut. Civil work then has to show how the second lot gets access, drainage, and new utility services. Until those drawings exist, a construction bid is guessing.
121 Design Build, from Encino, treats the SB9 lot split budget as its own workstream: application, conditions of approval, recording, then later building permits. That is a different stack than an SB9 two-unit or ADU budget.
We do not invent City of Los Angeles fees or dollar amounts. A range after a site review is an aim, not a guarantee. This page is not legal advice.
What actually moves the number
Survey and civil, new utilities, fencing, and carrying two lots.
Survey and civil
Boundary survey, topography, and civil plans for an Encino urban lot split. Existing walls, trees, and the house location all change how the cut can be drawn.
New services
New water, sewer, gas, and electric laterals to a second lot are often the surprise. LADWP, BOE, and the Bureau of Sanitation each have their own path. We do not invent those fees.
Two lots
Fencing, a second address, and carrying two lots through conditions of approval sit on the budget after the map is in. Call (424) 600-2100.
Two lots on one Encino address
An Encino lot that can become two legal lots.
121 Design Build is on Ventura Blvd in Encino. An SB9 lot split budget is framed around this address becoming two lots, not around a generic package price.
We do not invent dollar amounts or a guaranteed City of LA map fee. This page is not legal advice.
How we work
How 121 frames an SB9 lot split budget in Encino
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1. Map the split
We start with the Encino lot: frontage, existing house, and whether an urban lot split under SB9 can be drawn without inventing a second driveway.
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2. Civil path
Survey and civil tell us where new utility services to a second lot can land, and which Bureau of Engineering items will follow.
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3. Conditions
Conditions of approval are part of the SB9 lot split budget: bonding, fencing, trees, and anything Planning or BOE writes onto the map.
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4. Carry two lots
Carrying two lots — taxes, insurance, idle time — continues until the map records. Then building permits are a separate conversation. Call (424) 600-2100.
Honest split scope
What belongs in an SB9 lot split budget, and what does not.
We map
On the split
Survey, civil, new utility services to a second lot, fencing, conditions of approval, and the cost of carrying two lots until the map records. That is the SB9 lot split budget in Los Angeles.
We do not
Not invented
We do not invent Encino fees, a dollar-sign graphic, or a guaranteed SB9 lot split cost. City of LA / local AHJ decides. This is not legal advice.
Ask about SB9 lot split cost on your Encino lot.
If you have an SB9 lot split in Encino / Los Angeles, start with a conversation about survey, civil, and new services to a second lot. Call (424) 600-2100.