October 1, 2026 has passed. Counties were required to adopt local ADU laws. What you can build still depends on your ordinance — not a headline. Advisory, not legal advice.

Silver ADU Collective

Maryland · Sandwich-generation ADU advisory

Keep a parent close. Know if this lot can hold a cottage.

A free 30-minute Discovery Call. You leave knowing whether to keep exploring, wait on your county, or stop — before anyone spends a construction budget.

Book a Discovery Call(443) 332-1501

30 minutes · Google Meet · no obligation. Optional intake if you want us to arrive already knowing the address.

Maryland home with space for a family accessory dwelling

Not a builder. Not a law firm.

A written next step for the family that owns the house.

Who this is for

House-rich families deciding where a parent, adult child, or caregiver lives next.

Accessible backyard cottage with a gentle ramp beside a Maryland home

Aging parents

Stay close without jumping to a facility.

Compact backyard suite next to a Maryland house

Adult children

Independent, still on the family lot.

Caregiver-friendly accessory dwelling connected by a garden path

Caregivers

Support nearby. Privacy intact.

What you leave with

Clarity before a contractor.

Written lot feasibility

A yes, no, or not-yet for this property — so the family stops guessing from a group text.

A county-specific path

What the local ordinance allows now that October 1, 2026 has passed. Not a statewide building permit.

Facility vs. cottage math

Care, dignity, and cash on one page siblings can share. An ADU is not always cheaper.

Papers in one place

Survey, notes, and next steps organized — so the house does not live in 14 email threads.

How it works

Three steps. One call to start.

  1. 1

    Book 30 minutes

    Tell us the county, who would live close, and whether you own the lot.

  2. 2

    We say yes, no, or not yet

    If it is worth a written feasibility, you get a scope. If not, you leave with a straight answer.

  3. 3

    You decide with the family

    Siblings share one page. We do not start a build, a token, or a surprise invoice from a free call.

Schedule the Discovery Call

Where we work

Maryland counties. Your ordinance. Not a national ADU slogan.

Baltimore County

The first county we walk families through: lot, parent, and what the local ordinance actually allows.

Baltimore City

City rules are not the county’s. We separate what the state required from what the city published.

Howard County

Howard moved early on ADUs. We still read the lot — a signed county law is not a permit.

Montgomery County

High land value, tight lots, and HOA documents. Feasibility is written before anyone talks construction.

Prince George’s County

Sandwich-generation households deciding between a cottage, a facility, or staying put.

Anne Arundel County

Aging-in-place and caregiver units, with records a future buyer or lender can actually follow.

Also open to other Maryland and DMV lots. Find us on Google.

Yonda Pou-Williams, founder of Silver ADU Collective

Founder

Yonda Pou-Williams

Founder of Silver ADU Collective and host of On Genius Room. The work is Maryland families who are house-rich and time-poor: a parent who should not have to leave the lot, and paperwork that has to survive the next ten years. You talk to her on the Discovery Call.

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Questions

Straight answers

Only if your lot qualifies under the local law your county or city adopted. The October 1 date required local governments to authorize ADUs. It did not issue you a permit. We read the ordinance that governs your address.

If this is your lot, book the call.

Thirty minutes. We will tell you if an ADU is a real next step for this family — or if it is not.

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