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(5) “Local agency” means a city, county, or city and county, whether general law or chartered. (6) “Nonconforming zoning condition” means a physical improvement on a property that does not conform to current zoning standards. (7) “Objective standards” means standards that involve no personal or subjective judgment by a public ofﬁcial and are uniformly veriﬁable by reference to an external and uniform benchmark or criterion available and knowable by both the development applicant or proponent and the public ofﬁcial prior to submittal. (8) “Passageway” means a pathway that is unobstructed clear to the sky and extends from a street to one entrance of the accessory dwelling unit. (9) “Permitting agency” means any entity that is involved in the review of a permit for an accessory dwelling unit or junior accessory dwelling unit and for which there is no substitute, including, but not limited to, applicable planning departments, building departments, utilities, and special districts. (10) “Proposed dwelling” means a dwelling that is the subject of a permit application and that meets the requirements for permitting. (11) “Public transit” means a location, including, but not limited to, a bus stop or train station, where the public may access buses, trains, subways, and other forms of transportation that charge set fares, run on ﬁxed routes, and are available to the public. (12) “Tandem parking” means that two or more automobiles are parked on a driveway or in any other location on a lot, lined up behind one another. (k) A local agency shall not issue a certiﬁcate of occupancy for an accessory dwelling unit before the local agency issues a certiﬁcate of occupancy for the primary dwelling. (l) Nothing in this section shall be construed to supersede or in any way alter or lessen the effect or application of the California Coastal Act of 1976 (Division 20 (commencing with Section 30000) of the Public Resources Code), except that the local government shall not be required to hold public hearings for coastal development permit applications for accessory dwelling units. (m) A local agency may count an accessory dwelling unit for purposes of identifying adequate sites for housing, as speciﬁed in subdivision (a) of Section 65583.1, subject to authorization by the department and compliance with this division. (n) In enforcing building standards pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 17960) of Chapter 5 of Part 1.5 of Division 13 of the Health and Safety Code for an accessory dwelling unit described in paragraph (1) or (2), a local agency, upon request of an owner of an accessory dwelling unit for a delay in enforcement, shall delay enforcement of a building standard, subject to compliance with Section 17980.12 of the Health and Safety Code: (1) The accessory dwelling unit was built before January 1, 2020. (2) The accessory dwelling unit was built on or after January 1, 2020, in a local jurisdiction that, at the time the accessory dwelling unit was built, 90 Ch. 752—25 —