North Hollywood, CA · July 2024 – April 2025 · LADWP / LADBS

The work request opened on one street and closed on another.

A corner parcel with a house on one street and a new two-storey dwelling addressed on the other. Two meters on one wall, and a single interconnection that changed address halfway through.

On a corner lot a second dwelling usually fronts the side street and is addressed there, even though it shares a parcel and a wall of meters with the house. That can leave one interconnection carrying two addresses: opened against one and continued against the other. Nothing is wrong when it happens, but the address is no longer a reliable way to find your own file — the work request number is.

At a glance

New building

Two-storey ADU fronting the side street

Fire protection

NFPA 13D sprinklers throughout

Main house

Additions east and west; garage demolished

Recorded by the utility

3.2 kW

Microinverters

Enphase IQ8A

Supplemental permits

Three on the ADU alone

Filing to permission

Under five months

Utility / AHJ

LADWP / LADBS

The story

This is a corner parcel, and that single fact explains everything else about the paperwork. The existing house fronts one street. The new two-storey dwelling behind it, sprinklered throughout to NFPA 13D, fronts the side street and takes its address from there. One piece of land, two street addresses, and two meters side by side on the same wall.

The rest of the lot changed at the same time. The original house gained an addition on its east side and a larger one on its west, and the old garage was demolished to make room. All of it ran under permits issued the same week.

The ADU permit collected three supplementals over nine months: the structural foundation and framing plans revised to match the architectural drawings, the building height revised, and — the one nobody expects — the drainage revised to run to the street. That last one arrived in November, a month before the solar was filed.

Now the part that looks like an error. The interconnection request was opened against the house's address in December, and the fees were paid against it. The contract for the work was signed two weeks later against the new dwelling's address. And when the utility's progress notices resumed in March, they came back under the new dwelling's address, not the one the request started on.

Nothing went wrong there and nobody made a mistake.

The reading that fits is that the record ends up attached to the service that will actually draw the power rather than to the parcel it stands on — which on a corner lot means the side-street address. That is our reading of one project, and it is offered as a reading. If somebody tells you it is policy, ask them for the section.

It matters because of what it does to searching. If you look for your own project by the address you signed the contract under, and the file was opened under the other one, you will not find it. The same is true for anyone chasing a status — the work request number is the thing that stays constant, not the address.

The array itself is small and unremarkable, which is the point: modules on Enphase IQ8A microinverters, one per module, on the new roof, recorded by the utility at 3.2 kilowatts.

Installation was released at the end of March and permission to operate came a month later. From the interconnection filing, under five months, most of which was the building finishing around it.

How it ran

Same work request throughout. The address on it changed.

What we did

• Designed and installed the array on a dwelling addressed on a different street from the parcel's main house.
• Ran the conduit through the framing before the walls were closed.
• Filed the interconnection while the building was still collecting supplementals.
• Followed the work request across the address change rather than reopening it.
• Installed Enphase IQ8A microinverters, one per module.
• Carried the project to permission to operate under five months from filing.

System specifications

Is your project like this one?

• You are building an ADU on a corner lot.
• Your project appears under a different address than the one you signed under.
• You have two meters on one wall and are not sure which system belongs to which.
• You are adding to the main house and building a second dwelling at the same time.
• You want the solar filed while the building is still going up.

Cali Energy in North Hollywood

Frequently asked questions

Why does my ADU have an address on a different street?

Because on a corner lot the new dwelling usually fronts the side street, and its address comes from the street it faces. The parcel is the same; the addresses are not.

My paperwork changed address halfway through. Is that a mistake?

Not necessarily. The utility's record follows the service rather than the parcel. On this project the request was opened against the house's address and the later notices came back under the new dwelling's. The work request number stayed the same throughout, which is the reference worth quoting when you chase a status.

Can two dwellings share one wall of meters?

Yes, and on this parcel they do — one meter each, side by side, with the solar connected to the dwelling that uses it.

What is an NFPA 13D sprinkler requirement?

A residential fire sprinkler standard. This ADU is sprinklered throughout, which is recorded on the building permit and is common on new two-storey accessory dwellings here.

Why did the permit need three supplementals?

They record changes made during construction: the structural drawings brought into line with the architectural set, a revision to the building height, and a change to run the drainage to the street. Supplementals are normal on a new building and are not a sign of trouble.

What this would look like on your roof

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This timeline reflects this property and this permitting path. Updated September 2026.