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The law is written with the clarity of a block of stone. "Reasonable accommodations" means different things to different people. The only solution is for the
by LorenPechtel 7y ago
The law is written with the clarity of a block of stone.
"Reasonable accommodations" means different things to different people. The only solution is for the law to define what is reasonable but that wouldn't have worked politically--set the bar high and people would see it's crazy, set the bar low and the disability advocates would have demanded more. Thus we got a compromise that's basically the worst of both worlds.
- mondoshawan 7y agoNo. Resonableness is a concept in law and in this specific law that prescribes sane limits. There is also the "reasonable person" test which has been the basis for a huge amount of the body of law that we have already. Please, read the law or the excerpts that have been posted in this comment thread -- it is not an onerous law. The crap the cities and states pile up on top to make things harder (ie: requiring a building to be up to code before allowing an ADA accommodation building permit to be issued) are half the problem. The business owners are the other half for sticking their fingers in their ears. See also this link and the links embedded regarding "readily achievable": https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/12182 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/12182
- LorenPechtel 7y agoI have no problem with requiring new stuff to be built to current standards. I have a big problem with a situation like this that basically says the building must be scrapped. That is not reasonable in my book.
- mondoshawan 7y agoGood thing you don't sit on the bench, then, because you'd be consigning a whole class of people to a life of extra burdens and hardship, just because you like old buildings.