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Message: [QUOTE="orangecuse, post: 4160089, member: 668"] Yes. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.ada.gov/reachingout/lesson33.htm[/URL] [B]Renovating, remodeling, or altering an existing building:[/B] [I]Businesses renovate, remodel, or alter their spaces all the time. The ADA uses the term “alteration” to mean any change to an existing building or facility that affects usability. This includes remodeling, renovation, rearrangements in structural parts, and changes or rearrangement of walls and full-height partitions. [B]The ADA does not consider normal maintenance, reroofing, painting, wallpapering, asbestos removal, or changes to electrical and mechanical systems to be alterations unless they affect usability.[/B] The standards for alterations are not always as strict as the standards for new construction. The section of the ADA Standards that discusses alterations describes many situations where less stringent provisions are allowed. In addition, the ADA recognizes that sometimes existing structural conditions cannot be modified without removing or altering a load-bearing member that is an essential part of the structure or sometimes an existing physical or site constraint prohibits modification or addition of accessible features that comply fully with the ADA Standards. In these cases, a business must comply with the provisions of the ADA Standards to the “maximum extent feasible.”[/I] [B]The route and amenities that serve a primary function area:[/B] When a primary function area is altered, the path of travel to the altered area and the amenities serving the altered area must be made accessible, unless the costs for these changes are disproportionate. [B]The costs for the added alterations are considered disproportionate if they exceed 20 percent of the cost of the overall alteration[/B]. [B]In this case, you should make as many of the changes as you can without going over the 20 percent limit.[/B] The [I]'hundreds of millions'[/I] just seems so crazy unreasonable. No one in their right mind would ever consider such a thing, especially based upon the ADA's own 20% threshold limit. That would reflect a project where its total cost was at or above 1 billion dollars. It wouldn't surprise me (based upon how SU has typically and historically rolled regarding capital improvements, things of this nature, etc.) that it's an excuse (for lack of better word) to kick the can down the road so to speak. The issue dealing with season tickets holders, rearranged seating, impacts from the Covid pandemic, etc. may be the greater genuine present deterrent and obstacle here, as this has always been secondary to its main expensive priority item, the fixed roof replacement. [/QUOTE]

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