Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Americans with Disabilities Act - Title III

[R Philip Dowds (rpdowds]

Check this out:

    http://www.mass.gov/eopss/docs/dps/aab-regs/521009.pdf

It's possible that you fell below the thresholds, especially if your design 
emphasized single family or two-family structures.  So you may not have met my 
qualifier of "multi-family developments of any size".  (In hindsight, I would 
have better expressed myself by saying "any appreciable size", because "any 
size" can be read as "all sizes".)

RPD

On Jul 25, 2012, at 12:06 PM, Catya Belfer wrote:

> 
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:41 AM, R Philip Dowds <rpdowds [at] comcast.net> 
> wrote:
>> 
>> Rules do vary from one jurisdiction to the next, but I will stick with what 
>> I said:
>> 
>> In Massachusetts, State law requires that multi-family housing developments 
>> of any size provide a small percentage of units which are accessible to 
>> wheelchairs.
> 
> Really?  As of when?  We permitted in 2007 under 40b and didn't have
> this requirement.
> 
> (I'm just talking about law here)
> 
>     - cat
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