My father in law owned a lighting showroom in Fort Lauderdale. He built the building in the mid-1970’s.
The “sidewalk” in front of his door was about 4’ wide and basically a ramp in front of the door to his business.
There was a dirtbag “disabled” guy who went around in a wheelchair (which he didn’t need, he could walk). He knew the ASA inside out. He went up and down Federal Highway and entered every business. If they didn’t have the proper ramps and - worse - if their bathroom wasn’t fully ADA compliant, he would sue. The bathroom thing was worse because he played on people’s pity - most of the businesses didn’t have public bathrooms, but when you have a wheelchair bound “customer” saying they REALLY have to go...he repaid their kindness by suing them.
Well, my FIL ended up spending $15,000 to make an ADA compliant ramp, plus another $3,000 to upgrade his front door, $2000 to upgrade his bathroom, $700 to upgrade the door to his bathroom, plus lawyer costs, plus penalties, plus some other that went directly to the wheelchair guy.
I am not a fan of the ADA...
A buddy of mine had a house with his software business in it back in the 90’s when this thing came out. Just a bunch of coders and what not - they weren’t “open” for business sales or anything like that. But - because they were a business they had to do all of those renovations. What a pain.