Posted on 06/27/2012 9:35:32 AM PDT by JohnKinAK
New Disability Regs Limit Slope of Mini Golf Holes, Require Businesses to Admit Mini Horses as Guide Animals
Although the Justice Department has extended the deadline for America’s hotels to comply with regulations regarding handicap access to swimming pools, new Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) guidelines are already being applied at miniature golf courses, driving ranges, amusement parks, shooting ranges and saunas.
Among the provisions in the "Revised ADA Standards for Accessible Design," which went into effect on March 15, is one requiring businesses to allow miniature horses on their premises as guide animals for the disabled. Another limits the height of slopes on miniature golf holes.
“The new standards, for the first time, include requirements for judicial facilities, detention and correctional facilities, and recreational facilities,” Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez said during a conference in Baltimore on June 7.
“We expect the implementation of these accessibility standards to open up doors for full participation in both the responsibilities, such as jury duty, and the benefits, such as playing at city parks, of civic life for people with disabilities,” he said.
The 2010 ADA standards for Accessible Design require that at least 50 percent of golf holes on miniature golf courses be “accessible” – with a ground space that is “48 inches minimum by 60 inches minimum with slopes not steeper than 1:48 at the start of play.”
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Beach volleyball doesn’t seem compliant either. It’s difficult to manuever the wheelchair through the sand, and the net seems awfully high....
You cannot toilet train a horse like you can a dog, and fur shur not at all like a cat ~ they even have cats who use a commode and flush it themseles!
Most folks who've dealt with the impact of the regulations have focused on restaurants.
Actually, the horse should be most worried about the friendly neighborhood butcher shop ~ these animals are just incredibly pampered and fed the best stuff ~ so for a certain crowd they definitely have great value ~ AS FOOD. I think one of 'em would fit in your standard home oven.
America will go the way of ancient Rome. first the barbarians invade (Mexicans). Then the government becomes to onerous (Marxists Democrats). Then the rulers take licentious sexual mores (gaying of politics). Finally, the collapse and the rise of warlords. It will get ugly for some. All you bitter religionists clinging to your guns, hold onto them.
Hey, stop thinking like our Founding fathers!
Another legacy of Bush41.
The result of well intentioned Statists on the right result in the same evil as power hungry Statists on the left -- government tyranny.
Our Founders rightfully viewed government as a necessary evil.
Our Founders would have easily predicted the evil that would result from such compassionate acts as the ADA.
Mini golf, mini horses, hmmm...
I have it! Why not convert some of these run-down putt-putt courses to mini polo fields!
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