UNIVERSAL DESIGN IS THE PATH TO ACHIEVING IT
Along with covering growth and development for a large and influential Midwest newspaper in the 1990s, I was the guy tapped for the disability stories – including deciphering the new Americans Disabilities Act.
The ADA, the strongest federal civil rights legislation
for people with disabilities, became the law of the land in 1990.
On election day 2000, my wife and I landed in Miami.
She soon was working as an ADA coordinator for a diverse
city and I was the senior urban policy advisor for the Chair of the City of
Miami Commission.
After a dreadful period, Miami was booming and I was the
point person to figure out whether hundreds of huge development proposals were
good or bad for the city, Ta-da, once again starting meeting at 9 a.m. and
working well past midnight!
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