A developer plans to construct a 100-unit apartment building with one elevator. Must all 100 units be accessible?
A. Yes. A 100-unit apartment would be a covered multifamily dwelling under the Fair Housing Act. Under the Accessibility Guidelines an elevator building must provide at least one accessible entrance on an accessible route, regardless of terrain or unusual characteristics of the site. Therefore, all 100 units must be designed and constructed so that they comply with the accessibility requirements of the Fair Housing Act. Q. A developer plans to construct 30 apartments in a three story building that will not have an elevator. The building will have one accessible entrance on the first floor. Must all of the apartments be accessible? A. No. Since the building does not have an elevator, only the “ground floor” units are subject to the Act. The ground floor is the first floor because that is the floor that has an accessible entrance. Unless impracticality is established, as discussed above, all of the dwelling units on the first floor must meet the Act’s requirements; and there must be at l
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