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Originally Posted by dad911
I've had to install handicap bathrooms, 2nd floor renovation in a small 100yr old office building, no elevator, so no way to get upstairs.
Also HC parking & bathrooms in a tennis center, again, stairs so no access.
People make a career out of starting legal actions for businesses not in compliance. Seen a few good mom&pops close because of it.
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However, the biggest flaw in the ADA is how it allows the shakedown of non-compliant businesses, which has become a cottage industry in and of itself. Set up a process for ADA violation remedy the same as a fire code or other building code issues, and not a lottery for lawyers with wheelchairs.
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I have a friend who owns a high pressure hose manufacturing company, labor intensive, and have to operate equipment to build custom hoses. One day, a lady comes in with her daughter in a wheel chair, ask if she could fill out a job application (they weren't advertising looking for employees or new hires at the time either) he said sure, let her fill out the application. Then she asked if she could use the bathroom and that is when the crap started, ada nazis came in, cost him a butt load of $$$, even though there is no public restroom, as it is a manufacturing biz, not open to walking in off the street. Turned out, that fat ***** in the wheel chair & her mamma make their living pulling that trick, or using her race as a reason for being denied an application for a job she couldn't physically and had no intention of doing. I have seen pools closed as smaller hotels because they didn't want to or couldn't spend the $$$ to add the
BS lift.
Life isn't fair, no reason to punish the rest because you drew a short straw, suck it up butter cup. I am not a fan of the over reaching ada nazis & their operatives..