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

[R Philip Dowds (rpdowds]

This is true, to a degree.  But the accommodations for the disabled must not be 
consistently and grossly inferior to the options for the able-bodied.  For 
instance, if your building has three entrances, access for the 
mobility-impaired should not be limited to the most remote door, the one by the 
dumpster.  This is not a design principle, it's in the law.  Other provisions 
of the law are quite specific about numbers and percentages, like what number 
of spaces in your parking lot must be accessible.  So if you have forty raised 
gardening beds, maybe four of them must be accessible.  (This latter, I'm 
guessing ...)

RPD

On Jul 25, 2012, at 10:59 AM, Sharon Villines wrote:

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> On 25 Jul 2012, at 10:41 AM, R Philip Dowds wrote:
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>> If one of those units is in fact sold to a mobility-impaired person, and 
>> that person discovers that some of the key condo or HOA amenities are not 
>> available to him/her even though s/he paid "market rate" ... what happens 
>> next? 
> 
> We have an ADA expert living here and I can ask him any specific questions 
> people have. What he has said in this regard is that accessibility doesn't 
> require all facilities to be accessible _if_ there are alternatives. 
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> The stairs don't have to meet all the accessibility standards for surface 
> treatments and bars because we have an elevator. 
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> Not every door has to have an electric opener as long as there is one 
> reasonable wheelchair accessible route the person can take.
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> Not all the raised gardening beds have to be wheelchair accessible as long as 
> one is.
> 
> Sharon
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> Sharon Villines
> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
> http://www.takomavillage.org
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