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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2016-10-12 | 12 | that would be relevant or not, maybe she's going to be covering that and it wouldn't be necessary. But that was also a person who was at one of the workshops, at our meeting. Elizabeth Kenny: Great. I would love to see the State stuff, what is required. Tony Lewis: Okay, I'll get you his information I stole off his card. Elizabeth Kenny: So if that concludes the highlights of the ADA conference, I'd like to move on to old business, and Item 5A, discuss Universal Design Ordinance update. 5-A Discuss Universal Design Ordinance update (Chair Kenny) Kerry Parker: Chair Kenny, I would like to say for the record that we have a new attachment that has been since this agenda was posted, although it's now on the city website, if should you look at the agenda for tonight, and it a 5A public comment, which is a letter from a developer regarding the Universal Design Ordinance as it is written right now. Just want to add that. Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you. I believe we also have public comment in person on this agenda item. Okay, so to give you all an update, you received along with your agenda the current proposed Alameda Universal Design Ordinance, and some accessibility charts that Commissioner Brillinger found for us, which really helped me understanding the difference between Universal Design and visitability. And that's important for our Universal Design Ordinance, because we are asking for there to be visitability requirements within Universal Design Ordinance, and we're asking for those to be a 100% across the board. Elizabeth Kenny: So in this chart, the things in blue, the first three items, that is all that's required to make the visitability standard. And the visitability movement came out of Atlanta, and it's the idea that people should be able to visit their friends, they should be able to Even if they're not living in a house, they should at least be able to come over and visit with their friends. So that they have no step entrance. The doorway is wide enough for them to get in, and there's an accessible bathroom for them to go there. So that's the three requirements of visitability. Now if you continue down, there was a part of Universal Design, but Universal Design encompasses all the other aspects on the chart as well. So the other aspects, we have been asking that 30% of all new developments, residential developments with five or more units meet the Universal Design requirements. The Planning Department has suggested 20% and carving out a special exemption for townhouses, because they are working on limited amount of floor space, but we are not in agreement on that issue. Elizabeth Kenny: I think that we would like to see that for all residential developments, and with the idea that we've also asked for some sort of reporting mechanism in the ordinance, so that the city can see whether this is something that we should be doing for all projects, all residential projects, and not just new construction. But that is something that we want to have assessed and look at down further down the road once we have the Universal Design Ordinance in place. The Planning Board met on Monday night to look at the Universal Design Ordinance, and they also had the letter that Kerry was speaking about from a developer who raises concerns about the ordinance being overreaching, and going beyond what the State model has asked for. And that's nothing that we weren't aware of, we knew that we wanted to ask for more than what the State minimum was. Page 12 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2016-10-12.pdf |