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Scoping for timeshare or condominium hotels. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
One commenter asked the Department how developers should scope units where buildings are constructed in phases over a span of years, recommending that the scoping be based on the total number...
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Structural Impracticability (Preamble, Section-by-Section Analysis)
Two commenters argued that the DOJ requirement is too limiting and would not exempt some buildings that should be exempted because of soil conditions, terrain, and other unusual site conditions...
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Structural Impracticability (Section-By-Section Analysis and Response to Comments)
Two commenters argued that the DOJ requirement is too limiting and would not exempt some buildings that should be exempted because of soil conditions, terrain, and other unusual site conditions...
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Issue: Curb Ramps
Under program access, alternative routes to buildings that make use of existing curb ramps may be acceptable where people with disabilities must only travel a marginally longer route....
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Rulemaking Authority
We do not generally regulate things that get put into the environment that are not attached in some way to the building – so we’re not going to regulate this furniture (slide 6)....
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Compliance Problems Due to Lack of Accessibility Guidelines
A number of commenters from the building industry attributed difficulty in meeting the Act's March 13, 1991 compliance deadline, in part, to the lack of accessibility guidelines....
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4.2 Existing Facilities.
Such other methods include redesign of equipment, reassignment of services to accessible buildings, and assignment of aides to beneficiaries. 4.2.2 Appendix A to 28 CFR part 35 reinforces...
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Hallways
Hallways Problem In many polling places, particularly those in large facilities such as schools and apartment buildings, hallways contain drinking fountains, coat racks, fire extinguishers...
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224 Transient Lodging Guest Rooms
accessible communication features (224.4) modified dispersion requirements (224.5) The definition of "transient lodging" in section 106.5 has been revised to exclude, in part, "private buildings...
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Part 3: Polling Place Accessibility Checklist
Elements and spaces in a building constructed or altered before March 15, 2012, that complied with the 1991 Standards may remain in compliance with the 2010 Standards....
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The Importance of Customer Feedback
Both build customer loyalty. Expanding Your Market "People with disabilities are problem solvers....
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4. COMMON PATH OF TRAVEL ITEMS
These items include but are not limited to: • Primary building or facility entrance • Toilet and bathing facilities serving the area of alteration • Drinking fountains serving the...
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R204.2 Sidewalks
facilities required by this document and to accessible routes required by section 206.2.1 of appendix B to 36 CFR part 1191 or section F206.2.1 of appendix C to 36 CFR 1191 that connect building...
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"Existing Facility" (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Rather, a building that was newly designed and constructed at one time--and therefore subject to the accessibility standards in effect at the time--becomes an "existing facility" after it...
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Alterations To An Area Containing A Primary Function
36.402): Normal maintenance, re-roofing painting or wallpapering, asbestos removal, or changes to mechanical and electrical systems are not alterations unless they affect the usability of building...
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E) Alternate Services
If a town meeting is scheduled to be held on the second floor of a building without an elevator and a person using a wheelchair wishes to attend the meeting, the meeting should be relocated...
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2. Tips to Improve Access
The barriers you find inside a fitness facility can involve the building itself, the equipment, the classes, and staff training and attitudes. ...
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217 Telephones
other public telephones provided shall be equipped with a volume control and shall be dispersed among all types of public telephones, including closed circuit telephones, throughout the building...
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Interactive Illuminated Models
Rather than painting the buildings and landscape to provide high contrast visuals (as in the original Carroll Center project shown in figure 10), here the model is all-white, greatly simplifying...
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Location
Where buildings have multiple accessible entrances with adjacent parking, the accessible parking spaces must be dispersed and located closest to the accessible entrances....
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III-3.5000 Discrimination on the basis of association
ILLUSTRATION 1: The owner of a building may not refuse to lease space to a medical facility because the facility specializes in treatment of individuals with HIV disease....
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Location
Where buildings have multiple accessible entrances with adjacent parking, the accessible parking spaces must be dispersed and located closest to the accessible entrances....
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ENSURING LANGUAGE ACCESS AND EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION DURING RESPONSE AND RECOVERY: A CHECKLIST FOR EMERGENCY RESPONDERS
Access state and local demographic data, available through the U.S. Census Bureau, or interactive maps through the Department of Education....