This is just the camel’s nose under the tent.
Next, it will be a requirement for all private backyard pools too. Then, all bathtubs and rivers and lakes will incur the regulations too.
Follow the trail of the anti-smoking regulations from their start to the total mess they are today. Step by step...every year...the regulations grow.
Where the hell does it stop? When will the bleeding hearts realize that handicaps can limit what people can do and it is not up to the public to pander to them. It’s out of control...like the blind man who climbed Mt. Everest.
If you believe he did that all by himself, I’ve got a hell of a good deal on gold for you.
I just received the new yearly tax statement on one of my houses and the “old” house that I bought for $20,000 back in 2000 is now suddenly valued at $93,000 by the stroke of the pen of the unqualified tax assessor. Why? Simple; the huge wast of money by the school district (including ADA compliance) and the city’s cost of ADA compliance and modifications to meed current specifications. Also in the mix is paying for trial lawyers to settle ADA cases and individual discrimination lawsuits by the “disabled.”
I am old and would like to young again. I guess I could sue God for making me old or better yet, force him to make me look young again through some type of ridiculous regulation.
“This is just the camels nose under the tent.”
One government body I know of has an ADA compliance handbook that is 236 pages long, and covers EVERYTHING, from kitchens to toilets to the size of text on readable panels.