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Issue: Interior doorways, showers and drinking fountain in a tutoring center.

Analysis: The applicant is requesting a waiver from widening doors into three small tutoring spaces, the break room and two office/tutoring rooms. The project is being converted from residential to commercial, so full accessibility is required. The building has 1,961 square feet of conditioned space and has undergone $112,700 work over the previous three years. $27,750 has been spent during execution of the current permit for a concrete parking area, ramp access at two entrances two toilet rooms and widened entry way. The applicant does not wish to incur the additional expense of widening six remaining doorways and the other two toilet rooms. The drinking fountain is located in the inaccessible break room, and the building official recommended it be relocated and if the toilet rooms are not modified, showers should be removed.

Project Progress:

The project is under construction.

Items to be Waived:

Minimum width of doors; accessible toilet rooms and accessi9ble drinking fountain, without exceeding costs associated with disproportionate cost.

202.4.2 Accessible features in the Event of Disproportionality. When the cost of alterations necessary to make the path of travel to the altered area fully accessible is disproportionate to the cost of the overall alteration, the path of travel shall be made accessible to the extent that it can be made accessible without incurring disproportionate costs. In choosing which accessible elements to provide, priority should be given to those elements that will provide the greatest access, in the following order: (i) an accessible entrance (ii) an accessible route to the altered area (iii) at least one accessible restroom for each sex or a single unisex restroom (iv) accessible telephones (v) accessible drinking fountains; and (vi) when possible additional accessible elements such as parking, storage and alarms.