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(xii) Accessory dwelling units shall not be required to provide fire <br />sprinklers if they are not required for the primary residence. The construction <br />of an accessory dwelling unit shall not trigger a requirement for fire <br />sprinklers to be installed in the existing primary dwelling. <br />(2) The ordinance shall not be considered in the application of any local <br />ordinance, policy, or program to limit residential growth. <br />(3) (A) A permit application for an accessory dwelling unit or a junior <br />accessory dwelling unit shall be considered and approved ministerially <br />without discretionary review or a hearing, notwithstanding Section 65901 <br />or 65906 or any local ordinance regulating the issuance of variances or <br />special use permits. The permitting agency shall either approve or deny the <br />application to create or serve an accessory dwelling unit or a junior accessory <br />dwelling unit within 60 days from the date the permitting agency receives <br />a completed application if there is an existing single-family or multifamily <br />dwelling on the lot. If the permit application to create or serve an accessory <br />dwelling unit or a junior accessory dwelling unit is submitted with a permit <br />application to create a new single-family or multifamily dwelling on the <br />lot, the permitting agency may delay approving or denying the permit <br />application for the accessory dwelling unit or the junior accessory dwelling <br />unit until the permitting agency approves or denies the permit application <br />to create the new single-family or multifamily dwelling, but the application <br />to create or serve the accessory dwelling unit or junior accessory dwelling <br />unit shall be considered without discretionary review or hearing. If the <br />applicant requests a delay, the 60-day time period shall be tolled for the <br />period of the delay. If the local agency has not approved or denied the <br />completed application within 60 days, the application shall be deemed <br />approved.A local agency may charge a fee to reimburse it for costs incurred <br />to implement this paragraph, including the costs of adopting or amending <br />any ordinance that provides for the creation of an accessory dwelling unit. <br />(B) If a permitting agency denies an application for an accessory dwelling <br />unit or junior accessory dwelling unit pursuant to subparagraph (A), the <br />permitting agency shall, within the time period described in subparagraph <br />(A), return in writing a full set of comments to the applicant with a list of <br />items that are defective or deficient and a description of how the application <br />can be remedied by the applicant. <br />(4) The ordinance shall require that a demolition permit for a detached <br />garage that is to be replaced with an accessory dwelling unit be reviewed <br />with the application for the accessory dwelling unit and issued at the same <br />time. <br />(5) The ordinance shall not require, and the applicant shall not be <br />otherwise required, to provide written notice or post a placard for the <br />demolition of a detached garage that is to be replaced with an accessory <br />dwelling unit, unless the property is located within an architecturally and <br />historically significant historic district. <br />(6) An existing ordinance governing the creation of an accessory dwelling <br />unit by a local agency or an accessory dwelling ordinance adopted by a <br />local agency shall provide an approval process that includes only ministerial <br />90 <br />—4 — Ch. 752