TOO MANY ARCHITECTS, PLANNERS, TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERS AND URBAN DESIGNERS REDUCE THE ADA TO SOME KIND OF ONEROUS HURDLE THAT MUST BE LEAPED
More than one CNU leader has asked me how a person could go about getting an ADA variance—in the context of both building and town design.
I’ve explained what my brilliant wife (Heidi Johnson-Wright, a lifelong public servant in her third decade as an ADA coordinator) does:
While it impacts the built
environment, the ADA is not a building or zoning code.
It is
federal civil rights legislation
As such, it
can no more be waived than a firm could ask for a variance to discriminate in
hiring practices based on race, gender, etc.
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