2012 Florida Accessibility Code for Building Construction Pocket Guide

ETA Editor’s Note:

The Title III Regulations include the following requirement at 36.308, “Seating in assembly areas.” Although not required under new construction standards, the regulations require that wheelchair users have access to specialty services and amenities available to other spectators. Designers must take this obligation into consideration when determining the location of wheelchair spaces.

36.308 Seating in assembly areas.

A public accommodation shall ensure that wheelchair spaces and companion seats are provided in each specialty seating area that provides spectators with distinct services or amenities that generally are not available to other spectators. If it is not readily achievable for a public accommodation to place wheelchair spaces and companion seats in each such specialty seating area, it shall provide those services or amenities to individuals with disabilities and their companions at other designated accessible locations at no additional cost. The number of wheelchair spaces and companion seats provided in specialty seating areas shall be included in, rather than in addition to, wheelchair space requirements set forth in table 221.2.1.1 in the 2010 Standards.