So we have been encountering these two issues on a more frequent basis and I am trying to understand our clients responsibility with regard to disabled accessibility.
Lets assume for sake of this discussion that our scope of work is a retail client in the 2-3K SF range and the construction valuation exceeds the threshold.
Issue #1: Typical situation would be a strip shopping mall built in the 70's with a zero curb across the entire frontage of the small shops +/- 200' and another 300' across the adjacent big box store. The zero curb is adjacent to the drive aisle with the parking areas across the drive aisle. Our client is in the first retail bay with a frontage of say 40 feet. How much of this existing zero curb would we be responsible for installing detectable warnings across? 40' or the entire 500'? Knowing we can address the issue in various ways like installing an actual vertical curb, planters, bollards with chains and so on, the question still remains..............how far across this existing condition are we responsible to address?
Issue #2: Typical situation would be a strip shopping mall built in the 70's with no defined accessible path from the public way to the various building pads spread around the mall. What is our responsibility to provide a current code complying path of travel from the public way to our suite entrance? Previous access to these buildings was strictly vehicular in nature. Normally these paths if you can find any possible route will traverse hundreds of feet of existing concrete and asphalt that cross drainage swales and slopes in excess of 2%.
What if this shopping center is not flat, but has a vertical elevation change as you enter and drive up to the center, and the slope is in excess of that allowed by a walkway?
What are our responsibilities to provide access? how much access? and code sections to back up your thoughts please. 2013 CBC
Lets assume for sake of this discussion that our scope of work is a retail client in the 2-3K SF range and the construction valuation exceeds the threshold.
Issue #1: Typical situation would be a strip shopping mall built in the 70's with a zero curb across the entire frontage of the small shops +/- 200' and another 300' across the adjacent big box store. The zero curb is adjacent to the drive aisle with the parking areas across the drive aisle. Our client is in the first retail bay with a frontage of say 40 feet. How much of this existing zero curb would we be responsible for installing detectable warnings across? 40' or the entire 500'? Knowing we can address the issue in various ways like installing an actual vertical curb, planters, bollards with chains and so on, the question still remains..............how far across this existing condition are we responsible to address?
Issue #2: Typical situation would be a strip shopping mall built in the 70's with no defined accessible path from the public way to the various building pads spread around the mall. What is our responsibility to provide a current code complying path of travel from the public way to our suite entrance? Previous access to these buildings was strictly vehicular in nature. Normally these paths if you can find any possible route will traverse hundreds of feet of existing concrete and asphalt that cross drainage swales and slopes in excess of 2%.
What if this shopping center is not flat, but has a vertical elevation change as you enter and drive up to the center, and the slope is in excess of that allowed by a walkway?
What are our responsibilities to provide access? how much access? and code sections to back up your thoughts please. 2013 CBC
