Thank you for registering for the ADU Tour

ADU Tour Booklets and Wristbands

In order to visit the ADUs, you will need ADU tour booklets and wristbands. Volunteers will be checking for wristbands at each ADU. You may not enter the ADUs without them.

You can pick up your wristbands and ADU Tour booklets on the day of the tour, Saturday, September 7th, beginning at 9am, at 5300 NE 16th Ave, Portland, OR, 97211, ADU #2.

When picking up them up, you do not need to print out a physical copy of your ticket. You can pick up booklets and wristbands for others as well– just have the other registrants forward their confirmation email to you.

Educate Yourself About the ADUs on the Tour

The ADU Tour web page is now available for tour registrants.

The Tour Website is: https://accessorydwellings.org/2024-adu-tour-project-profiles/

The password is: 2024

The tour webpage will include a lot of information about each ADU, including costs, sweat equity estimates, notes of any especially expensive aspects of each project, design time, construction time, and advice, tips, permitting issues, and lessons learned from each homeowner. This page provides addresses as well a link to a Google Map built to help you navigate the tour.

Review the ADUs profiles online before the tour so you can use your time effectively. The project profiles for each ADU will likely address many of the questions that you have.

During the tour, the ADU owners will be available to answer questions about their ADU and most of the ADU’s builders and/or designers will be available as well.

Tour Logistics

Open Hours for the ADUs on the tour are 10am-4pm. Count on being able to visit 2 ADUs any hour. So, it is feasible to visit all of the ADUs, but it’s ok to be selective and only visit the ADUs that pertain to your personal interests.

Bike!: We encourage you to ride a bike, if you’re able. Biking will substantially minimize the traffic impact on the neighborhoods that you’ll be visiting this weekend. There will be large bike racks located at each ADU and we encourage you to bike if you’re able. Remember to lock your bikes to the racks. More information is available about biking on the tour page.

Driving: If you’re driving, be aware that parking at each ADU will be limited; expect to walk a block or so at each location.

Volunteers: At each ADU, there will be a tour volunteer stationed to answer questions, check wristbands, and keep an eye on the bike racks.

Be Respectful: Be respectful of the ADU homeowners, designers, and builders, who have opened up their ADUs for the tour. Some homeowners may ask you to remove your shoes. Some won’t. Be respectful of their wishes.

Bathrooms: There won’t be bathrooms available at any of the ADUs for you to use since the bathrooms need to be kept clean for the other tour attendees to see. So, you’ll have to rely on using restrooms at retail establishments along your tour route.

Other attendees: ADUs are inherently small and this tour will have many attendees. Volunteers will be there to manage a queue outside of each ADU.

Educate yourself about the ADUs: Read the ADUs profiles available online before the tour so you can use your time effectively. The project profiles and several posters and signage located at each ADU will likely address many of the questions that you have about the ADUs. To make the tour better for everyone, don’t ask redundant questions of the hosts, designers, or builders, that are already addressed directly in the website or in the posters. Ask questions that are more nuanced or aren’t addressed in the tour literature provided.

The Friday Evening ADU Workshop

This workshop will primarily cover the new zoning regulations in the City of Portland, which include two ADUs, as well as cottage clusters. It will also cover the rules for placing and inhabiting a tiny houses on wheels or an RV on residential property. We will review some of the best practices in terms of development and design and cost, referring specifically to the ADUs that were featured in the ADU Tour.

You must purchase an add-on ticket when you are purchasing your ADU Tour ticket in order to attend the two hour workshop. If you did not register initially, but now wish to do so, you can do so here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/accessorydwellings/1262760

The standalone registration cost is $30.

If you purchased this add-on ticket, then we will be able to check you at the door of the event simply using your name. No paperwork or anything else is needed.

When and Where:

This presentation will be held in the sanctuary at Taborspace, located at 5441 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR 97215. Plan to arrive at 5:45pm on Friday, September 6th, 2024. The talk will begin at 6pm. It will go to 8pm and will include opportunities for questions and answers.

Guided Tour of Prefab ADU/THOW Factories

This tour will consist of guided visits to four, small house manufacturing facilities in the Portland Metro region on Friday, September 6th, from 8am-4pm.

Attendees will learn about the large scale ADU production methodologies, and ground-truth the opportunities and shortcomings of prefab ADU development. This is the first tour of its kind, and we expect it to draw policy wonks, affordable housing providers, entrepreneurs, and other niche practitioners.

Read more about this special guided tour option here.

Have fun! Learn a lot. Get inspired.

15 comments on “Thank you for registering for the ADU Tour”

Marie Morgan
May 5, 2015

It would be great at the Tour if there were some sort of (physical and/or electronic) bulletin board for potential contacts with mutual interests. E.g., I hope to build an ADU in Portland for when I come to visit friends & family, but I don’t own a home there…maybe someone wants one on their property but can’t pay for construction right now.

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- vrpdxpert
  May 21, 2015
  
  Funny you should mention it; I have a home in need of just such an ADU.
  If anyone’s interested in the above circumstances, let me know.
  
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- fullen.matthew@gmail.com
  May 29, 2015
  
  I have a home in a great location that is in need of an ADU. If you are interested let me know!
  
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GJ
May 21, 2015

Where is the “your PDF ticket (available below).” ???

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- kolpeterson
  May 21, 2015
  
  Thanks for catching that. I’ve corrected it. You’ll actaully receive the PDF ticket by email.
  
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F Mayer
September 30, 2015

Are you mailing all tickets instead of email?

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- kolpeterson
  September 30, 2015
  
  Tickets must be picked up in person.
  
  All ticket holders can pick up booklets and wristbands during the event, on November 7th from 9am-4pm:
  
  at Caravan- The Tiny House Hotel
  
  5009 NE 11th Ave, Portland, OR, 97211.
  
  Early bird ticket holders can pick up tickets and booklets prior to the event at the following times and locations:
  
  Monday, October 26th starting at 12pm- Friday, October 30th ending at 12pm
  
  Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ)
  
  811 SW 6th Avenue, 10th floor, Portland, OR, 97204
  
  &
  
  Build Small Live Large housing summit attendees can pick up tickets at the summit on Friday, November 6th.
  
  PSU Smith Center, 1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR
  
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Delila
October 22, 2015

I live in Seattle. Is there any way I could get the code in advance without traveling to Portland?

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- kolpeterson
  October 22, 2015
  
  Delila, I will be sending out the access code to the tour web page to registered attendees on October 24th.
  
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Kent
September 9, 2016

Instructions re needing and picking up tickets and wristbands are not clear to me. We are attending the Sept 18 tour only. Can tickets and wristbands and all reference material be picked up at the same time at the same place? If so what places and times?
If not (which seems illogical, but is the way I interpret the info provided) where and when do we get the tickets and then where and when do we get the wristbands?

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- Kol Peterson
  September 9, 2016
  
  Kent,
  
  You can pick up booklets and wristbands at: Caravan- The Tiny House Hotel, 5009 NE 11th Ave, Portland, OR, 97211 on
  
  Sunday, September 11th, from 11am-4pm
  
  or
  
  at Caravan- The Tiny House Hotel, 5009 NE 11th Ave, Portland, OR, 97211, on the day of the ADU Tour, on Sunday, September 18th, from 9am-4pm
  
  Saturday ADU Workshop attendees can also pick up packets/wristbands on Saturday, September 17th at 2120 NE Tillamook St. Portland, OR 97212, where the ADU workshops are being held.
  
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Sara
September 16, 2016

If I bring my 9-year-old with me on the self guided tour, does he need a wristband?

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- Kol Peterson
  September 16, 2016
  
  No, Kids under 12 are free. Volunteers will admit children who are under 12 into the ADU without wristbands.
  
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Cecilia Speth
September 4, 2017

Is there any alternative to picking up wrist bands/tour books at the Tiny Caravan site? Living in Sellwood working all day Saturday and attending the SE tour on Sunday, I am hoping to avoid the time/drive to pick them up in the AM. I am guessing that there are not other options at this point, so would like to propose future possibilities. I think if a couple of homes on each tour were designated as wrist band / tour books pick up locations it would allow those of us with limited time to maximize our touring days. Thanks!!

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- Kol Peterson
  September 4, 2017
  
  Cecilia,
  
  Yes, there have been a few pick up locations for early bird registrants, and there’s still a couple more times to pick up your wristbands and booklets prior to the Sunday tour in SE. Check your email confirmation for a list of locations and times.
  
  We’ve tried in the past to have a pick up point in SE and very few people took advantage of it. So, we don’t do that anymore.
  
  -Kol
  
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