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Tucson Ignores Americans With Disabilities Act and Its Own Building Code With Downtown Parking
http://azbex.com/tucson-ignores-americans-with-disabilities-act-and-its-own-building-code-with-downtown-parking/
Posted by Matthew Roy on Feb 28th, 2014 // No Comment
By Darren DaRonco for Arizona Daily Star
This is the city’s dirt parking lot on the northeast corner of North Sixth and East Toole avenues. It has been operating for years in violation of the city’s own building code. A private operator upset over the lot’s lower-rate prices has filed a claim against the city seeking damages. Photo Credit: A.E. Araiza/Arizona Daily Star
This is the city’s dirt parking lot on the northeast corner of North Sixth and East Toole avenues. It has been operating for years in violation of the city’s own building code. A private operator upset over the lot’s lower-rate prices has filed a claim against the city seeking damages.
Photo Credit: A.E. Araiza/Arizona Daily Star
The city of Tucson takes a firm position when it comes to violations of its building code or the Americans with Disabilities Act — unless, that is, the violator is the city of Tucson.
The city has been operating a downtown dirt parking lot in violation of its own code and the federal law for years.
Many downtown workers take advantage of the low rates at the city’s Toole Lot, on the northeast corner of North Sixth and East Toole avenues.
But the lot breaks numerous major rules in the code.
Besides being unpaved, which is required of all other commercial parking lots, it lacks handicapped spots, and it doesn’t mark individual parking boundaries.
City policy requires that each department adhere to codes and ordinances.
Waivers can be granted, but none ever have been for the lot. Furthermore, city rules explicitly require compliance with the ADA, without exception.
Downtown parking lot operators consider the city’s flouting of the rule a slap in the face.
http://azbex.com/tucson-ignores-americans-with-disabilities-act-and-its-own-building-code-with-downtown-parking/
Posted by Matthew Roy on Feb 28th, 2014 // No Comment
By Darren DaRonco for Arizona Daily Star
This is the city’s dirt parking lot on the northeast corner of North Sixth and East Toole avenues. It has been operating for years in violation of the city’s own building code. A private operator upset over the lot’s lower-rate prices has filed a claim against the city seeking damages. Photo Credit: A.E. Araiza/Arizona Daily Star
This is the city’s dirt parking lot on the northeast corner of North Sixth and East Toole avenues. It has been operating for years in violation of the city’s own building code. A private operator upset over the lot’s lower-rate prices has filed a claim against the city seeking damages.
Photo Credit: A.E. Araiza/Arizona Daily Star
The city of Tucson takes a firm position when it comes to violations of its building code or the Americans with Disabilities Act — unless, that is, the violator is the city of Tucson.
The city has been operating a downtown dirt parking lot in violation of its own code and the federal law for years.
Many downtown workers take advantage of the low rates at the city’s Toole Lot, on the northeast corner of North Sixth and East Toole avenues.
But the lot breaks numerous major rules in the code.
Besides being unpaved, which is required of all other commercial parking lots, it lacks handicapped spots, and it doesn’t mark individual parking boundaries.
City policy requires that each department adhere to codes and ordinances.
Waivers can be granted, but none ever have been for the lot. Furthermore, city rules explicitly require compliance with the ADA, without exception.
Downtown parking lot operators consider the city’s flouting of the rule a slap in the face.