Tim Mailloux
Registered User
Working on a new middle school in CT, the building code is the 2015 IBC with state amendments and the accessibility code is 2009 ANSI A117.1.
Under our current design all of the school parking, associated handicap parking and accessible routes are located at the front of the school. Behind and off to the side of the school we are also building some new athletic fields (baseball & soccer). These fields will be used by the students during school for PE class, and will be used by the community after school and on the weekends for town sports programs and public use. We have to provide convenience parking adjacent to the athletic fields and we have also provide handicap parking there as well. The school is also built into a hillside, the front or main parking lot is accessible to level 2 of the school, while athletic fields and associated convince parking are approximately 14 feet lower and accessible to level 1 of the school.
My civil engineer is telling me that an accessible route needs to be provided from the lower athletic parking lot to the upper school parking lot and has proposed a very elaborate and expensive ramp system to make this happen. Is this required? We have provided an accessible route from the lower athletic field handicap parking to the level 1 of the school, but I cannot find anything in the code that requires the two parking lots be accessible to one another
Under our current design all of the school parking, associated handicap parking and accessible routes are located at the front of the school. Behind and off to the side of the school we are also building some new athletic fields (baseball & soccer). These fields will be used by the students during school for PE class, and will be used by the community after school and on the weekends for town sports programs and public use. We have to provide convenience parking adjacent to the athletic fields and we have also provide handicap parking there as well. The school is also built into a hillside, the front or main parking lot is accessible to level 2 of the school, while athletic fields and associated convince parking are approximately 14 feet lower and accessible to level 1 of the school.
My civil engineer is telling me that an accessible route needs to be provided from the lower athletic parking lot to the upper school parking lot and has proposed a very elaborate and expensive ramp system to make this happen. Is this required? We have provided an accessible route from the lower athletic field handicap parking to the level 1 of the school, but I cannot find anything in the code that requires the two parking lots be accessible to one another