The owners of a local restaurant
recently approached me with questions
about whether some work they
were planning required compliance with
ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act).
They wanted to know how the ADA
would treat an expansion of eating space
from inside the building to an existing
patio outside the building. Actually,
their questions were more pointed:
Would they have to do something about
the public bathroom, in which only
undernourished children could find
room to turn around? Would they have
to alter the sidewalk entrance with the
hundred-year-old double doors that
even people who are not disabled have
trouble getting through?
I hate making those phone calls where
you have to admit to somebody that you
might have been