accessible route

[jim baird]

Is it possible to have an accessible route from site to building without parking area being paved?

 

[Rio]

What is the surface of the parking area? Will there be an issue of a wheelchair getting stuck in the mud when it rains or will it be too hard to push through?

 

[jim baird]

Gravel, (crushed granite), as we live a stone's throw from the Granite Capital of the World.

 

[SCBO1]

I think the ground surface of the accessible route has to be stable, firm and slip resistant. Compacted stone could meet the requirements? Not sure how it would keep from being rutted or cracked. Would there be more maintenance involved for upkeep?

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[jim baird]

Most zoning regs require paved parking, but this site is in a little fiefdom of 165 souls where county zoning doesn't have effect. "Developer" is a typical cheapskate who wants to put some used office/classroom trailers on a prior gravel carlot to give him office space for a growing software development biz. I serve on contract basis with the local body providing inspection. They have no admin or even officially adopted codes, but building codes are statewide in effect anyway. I've told him he will have considerable exposure to being sued if he doesn't meet accessibility, but he doesn't want to listen. I'm thinking of offering him something short of a full CO, just a letter that explains which codes he does happen to meet, 'cause he won't be getting the full enchilada from this inspector.

 

[Yankee]

Maybe just don't give him a CO.

 

[jim baird]

My email to "engineering" at state office of insurance commisioner, under whose wing state fire marshal's office cowers, which fire marshal's office was given accessibility, brought a reply that said, "not necessarily" if the non-paved surface is compacted and durable enough.

True to form, as I have noticed among state officials to whom questions of any substance are put, the answer was "maybe".

BTW I e-mailed a county ag extension agent a picture of a fruit tree that had dead-ringer signs of fire-blight and asked him if he thought it looked like fire blight.

His answer, "I can't tell from the picture," and he then went on to verbally describe, in hints of what to look for, exactly what the picture showed.

Message to me, "I don't go one millimeter out no limb fer nobody."

 

[Yankee]

I agree it can be of any material that meets the description.

Is he suppling a ramp and an accessible bathroom?