Guidance on the 2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design

Analysis and Com menta ry on the 201 0 A DAStandards wish to explore design options that would parking spaces. The Department believes incorporate the use of a ramp. that this exception provides necessary relief for small business entities that may otherwise 208 and 502 Parking Spaces face the prospect of having between twenty-five percent (25%) and one hundred General. Where parking spaces are percent (100%) of their limited parking area provided, the 1991 Standards, at sections unavailable to their customers because they 4.1.2 (5)(a) and (7) and 7(a), and the 2010 are reserved for the exclusive use of persons Standards, at section 208.1, require a whose vehicles display accessible tags or specified number of the parking spaces to be parking placards. The 2010 Standards still accessible. The 2010 Standards, at section require these businesses to ensure that at 208, include an exception that exempts least one of their available parking spaces is parking spaces used exclusively for buses, designed to be accessible. trucks, delivery vehicles, law enforcement vehicles, or for purposes of vehicular A commenter stated that accessible parking impound, from the scoping requirement for spaces must be clearly marked. The parking spaces, provided that when these Department notes that section 502.6 of the lots are accessed by the public the lot has an 2010 Standards provides that accessible accessible passenger loading zone. parking spaces must be identified by signs that include the International Symbol of The 2010 Standards require accessible Accessibility. Also, section 502.3.3 of the parking spaces to be identified by signs 2010 Standards requires that access aisles that display the International Symbol of be marked so as to discourage parking in Accessibility. Section 216.5, Exceptions 1 them. and 2, of the 2010 Standards exempt certain accessible parking spaces from this signage Access Aisle. Section 502.3 of the 2010 requirement. The first exception exempts Standards requires that an accessible route sites that have four or fewer parking spaces adjoin each access aisle serving accessible from the signage requirement. Residential parking spaces. The accessible route facilities where parking spaces are assigned connects each access aisle to accessible to specific dwelling units are also exempted entrances. from the signage requirement. Commenters questioned why the 2010 Commenters stated that the first exception, Standards would permit an accessible by allowing a small parking lot with four or route used by individuals with disabilities to fewer spaces not to post a sign at its one coincide with the path of moving vehicles. accessible space, is problematic because it The Department believes that the 2010 could allow all drivers to park in accessible Standards appropriately recognize that not all Department of Justice Guidance on the 2010 Standards: Titles II and III - 87