The Option One guidelines for these two requirements remain unchanged in the final Guidelines.
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(1) Accessible entrance and an accessible route
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Common Use Areas in Residential Facilities—Section 203.8 of the 2010 Standards
The only exception would be common use areas provided on upper stories of a non-elevator building provided the same common use areas are provided on the ground floor....
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Section 2. Covered multifamily dwellings
dwellings" or "covered multifamily dwellings subject to the Fair Housing Amendments" means buildings consisting of four or more dwelling units if such buildings have one or more elevators; and ground...
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Section 2. Ground floor
"Ground floor" means a floor of a building with a building entrance on an accessible route. A building may have one or more ground floors....
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1.2 Q. Does the Fair Housing Act cover four one-story dwelling units that share common walls and have individual entrances?
The Fair Housing Act applies to all units in buildings consisting of four or more dwelling units if such buildings have one or more elevators; and ground floor dwelling units in other buildings...
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GROUND FLOOR
The floor of a building with a building entrance on an accessible route. A building may have one or more ground floors....
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GROUND FLOOR
[DSA-AC] The floor of a building with a building entrance on an accessible route. A building may have one or more ground floors....
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GROUND FLOOR
The floor of a building with a building entrance on an accessible route. A building may have one or more ground floors....
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GROUND FLOOR
[DSA-AC] The floor of a building with a building entrance on an accessible route. A building may have one or more ground floors....
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2.1 Q. If a building includes three residential dwelling units and one or more commercial spaces, is the building a covered multifamily dwelling under the Fair Housing Act?
Covered multifamily dwellings are buildings consisting of four or more dwelling units, if such buildings have one or more elevators; and ground floor dwelling units in other buildings consisting...
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§100.201 Ground floor
Ground floor means a floor of a building with a building entrance on an accessible route. A building may have more than one ground floor....
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Ground Floor
Any occupiable floor less than one story above or below grade with direct access to grade....
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§100.205(d)
The building will have one accessible entrance which will be on the first floor....
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Requirement 1. Accessible building entrance on an accessible route.
Under section 100.205(a), covered multifamily dwellings shall be designed and constructed to have at least one building entrance on an accessible route, unless it is impractical to...
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1(1)(a) Separate ground floor unit entrances
(a) Separate ground floor unit entrances....
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1(1)(b) Multiple entrances
Only one entrance is required to be accessible to any one ground floor of a building, except in cases where an individual dwelling unit has a separate exterior entrance, or where the building...
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1(2)(a) Site impracticality due to terrain
For these sites for which either test is applicable, regardless of which test is selected, at least 20% of the total ground floor units in nonelevator buildings, on any site, must comply...
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1(2)(a)(i) Individual building test
To determine site impracticality, the slope would be measured at ground level from the point of the planned entrance on a straight line to (i) each vehicular or pedestrian arrival point...
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1(2)(a)(ii) Site analysis test
(B) To determine the practicality of providing accessibility to planned multifamily dwellings based on the topography of the existing natural terrain, the minimum percentage of ground floor...
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Guidelines for Requirement 1
The Guidelines for Requirement 1 present guidance on designing an accessible entrance on an accessible route, as required by §100.205(a), and on determining when an accessible...
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Ground Floor
A building may have one or more ground floors....
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5.1 Q...Would the first story of single-story dwelling units over the parking level be required to be accessible?
The Guidelines adopt and amplify the definition of ground floor found in HUD's regulation implementing the Fair Housing Act (see 24 CFR 100.201) to indicate that . . .where the first floor...
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5.2 Q. If a building design contains a mix of single-story flats on grade and single-story flats located above grade over a public parking area, do the flats over the parking area have to be accessible?
The definition of ground floor in the Guidelines states, in part, that ground floor means a floor of a building with a building entrance on an accessible route....
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6.1 Q...do the dwelling units on both the first and second stories have to be made accessible?
By defining ground floor to be any floor of a building with an accessible entrance on an accessible route, the Fair Housing Act regulations recognize that certain buildings, based on the...