Posted on 07/18/2009 10:42:59 AM PDT by SmithL
Nearly all Contra Costa County cities have agreed to dedicate 5 percent of their gas-tax revenues for the next 30 years to make sidewalks more accessible to people in wheelchairs or who cannot see well, as part of a lawsuit settlement.
The settlement has not yet received final approval; a Sept. 16 hearing will determine whether the judge will accept the class-action settlement terms.
Under the proposed settlement, wheelchair users and other people with vision or mobility disabilities would not be permitted to file additional lawsuits against the cities for the issues covered in the settlement, such as missing curb access ramps, for the duration of the settlement — up to 30 years, unless improvements are completed sooner.
The suits were filed in 2007 by George Louie, a West Sacramento man who has filed hundreds of disabled-access lawsuits in California against cities and businesses. Louie was joined in the suit by Gloria Vaughn and Yvonne White, both of Richmond.
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LOL! Stupid - just don’t pay.
Well their barking up the wrong tree. The Zero admin is getting ready to do away(yeah right) with gas taxes and go to mileage tax. 30 years I don’t think so, unless they get the Dums out of office.
If such a tax is even appropriate, then why not assess it on the prices of wheelchairs and other handicapped mobility devices instead? Have those people who use these devices pay for the costs of these improvements.
The ADA. More than anything else, this is something Nixon should have been shot for.
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