When would it be considered impractical to provide an accessible entrance served by an accessible route due to terrain?
A. The Accessibility Guidelines provide an impracticality standard only for non-elevator buildings. Buildings with elevators must be designed to provide at least one accessible entrance on an accessible route. A covered multifamily dwelling without an elevator shall be designed and constructed to have an entrance on an accessible route unless the characteristics of the site are impractical, as determined by one of two alternative tests, described below as Test 1 and Test 2. The tests may be applied as follows: A site with a single building having a common entrance for all units may be analyzed only as described under Test 1. All other sites, including a site with a single building having multiple entrances serving either individual dwelling units or clusters of dwelling units, may be analyzed using the methodology in either Test 1 or Test 2. EXCEPTION: For sites for which either test is applicable, regardless of which test is selected, at least 20% of the total ground floor units, on a
Related Questions
- A developer is planning to construct a project that consists of several buildings. Must each building contain an accessible building entrance on an accessible route?
- When would it be considered impractical to provide an accessible entrance served by an accessible route due to unusual characteristics of the site?
- What is meant by an "accessible" building or route?
