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ADU / accessory dwelling in Nokomis

Nokomis is Minneapolis South's 1920s-1950s bungalow + cape cod + lakefront tudor submarket. Lake Nokomis (204 acres) anchors the neighborhood — second-largest lake in Minneapolis.

Nokomis cost range
$110K$580K
typical mid-complexity
Permit authority
City of Minneapolis CPED + Minnehaha Creek Watershed District
8-14 weeks
Typical home size
1300-2600 sqft
Borough · ZIP
Minneapolis South
55417
Lake Nokomis shoreland — DNR 75 ft setbackMinnehaha Creek WD permit on >5,000 sqft disturbanceMinneapolis 2040 triplex + ADU by-rightHeritage tree ordinance — boulevard oaks protected

What a adu / accessory dwelling project looks like here

Lake Nokomis (204 acres) anchors the neighborhood — second-largest lake in Minneapolis.

Lake Nokomis was deepened by WPA crews 1933-1937 to its current 35-ft depth.

Minneapolis ADUs — detached, attached, and conversion paths — scoped against Minneapolis CPED / St Paul DSI + MN Residential Builder License (DOLI) setback + height + parking variances. In Nokomis specifically, 1920s-1950s bungalow + cape cod + lakefront tudor stock means adu / accessory dwelling scope is shaped by the neighborhood's dominant construction typology. Baily's Minneapolis scoping flow factors lake nokomis shoreland and minnehaha creek wd permit on >5,000 sqft disturbance into the estimate before a contractor is involved.

Start your Nokomis scope — Baily asks the right questions.

Pre-seeded for adu / accessory dwelling in Nokomis. Mention your 1300-2600 sqft, your timeline, and any known constraints — Baily factors the city of minneapolis cped + minnehaha creek watershed district review queue into the scope.

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Who is Baily?

Baily is named after Francis Baily — an English stockbroker who retired at 51, became an astronomer, and in 1836 described something on the edge of a solar eclipse that nobody had properly articulated before: a string of bright beads of sunlight breaking through the valleys along the moon’s rim.

He wasn’t the first to see them. Edmond Halley saw them in 1715 and barely noticed. Baily’s contribution was clarity — describing exactly what was happening, in plain language, so vividly that the whole field of astronomy paid attention. The phenomenon is still called Baily’s beads.

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