“This special (and expensive) accomodation dictated by fedzilla started decades ago. 25 years ago, when our kids were in our little town’s parent volunteer preschool, a family with a handicapped child DEMANDED we add a wheelchair ramp for her. It wasn’t good enough to carry her up the four steps into the building. No, that simply wouldn’t do.
I think the ADA compliant ramp cost $10k or $15k.
A couple days before the new term started, they pulled their daughter out of our school. To this day, I doubt the ramp has ever had a wheelchair on it.”
An ADA activist in a wheel chair making the rounds of public buildings demanded that a small local public library add an outdoor wheelchair elevator on the front face of the building, because he wasn’t satisfied with the path to the side entrance that everyone else used. The path had no steps and others with wheel chairs had no problem with it. The elevator thing did get built on the front of the building - there was not the will on the part of local government officials to deny the request - but that device, also costing about $10,000 about 15 years ago, was never used by him or anyone else. Public dollars down the drain and the quaint building facade scarred for no reasonable reason.
Scarred our building facade, too. It’s a charming, modest old farmhouse/bungalow probably from the 20’s with a nice, wide staircase leading to the front door. Of course, the ramp couldn’t go on the side of the building. There it is, right in front destroying the entire esthetic. It still burns me up.