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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2017-07-25 | 5 | ITEM 2-B COMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES MEETING MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING ON Tuesday, July 25, 2017 6:30 p.m. Planning Board. I've done it out on the streets of Alameda. I've got signs on the back of my wheelchair and on the sides that talk about visitability. And I'm really glad to see that we are coming to the point where we can bring it to the city council, and where they can say, "Okay, you guys did a good job, and we're ready to take it on." Elizabeth Kenny: Great. Thank you Commissioner Brillinger. Commissioner Lewis, do you have any questions or comments? Tony Lewis: No. I would just echo what Arnold had said. And also a long time for Alameda. I think it's great that we're doing this. We have a large population that are getting older that will really benefit from. I do hope that My gut feeling is that there's going to be a lot of developers that aren't going to be very pleased because the cost and better I've not seen but I'm happy for the ones that will adopt it, or are willing to go along with developing. Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you, Commissioner Lewis. Commissioner Deutsch, who was one of the people working on this five years ago. Susan Deutsch: Well, I don't have any questions. I just want to say that I'm very pleased that we're at this point after five years working on this and I'm really looking forward to something positive happening. Elizabeth Kenny: Great. Thank you. Commissioner Barrett? Jen Barrett: Hi, all. Thank you so much for that presentation. Just so you know my background, I worked for two and a half years as an accessibility consultant in the New York City area, and around the US. So I'm involved with a lot of the laws and enforcement, as well as for Universal Design for a few clients. I just had one question in 18.4 b, Section 2. It's talking about the requirements for the 30% of the new residential units, in developments of five or more. California building code, correct me if I'm wrong, is 10% of multistory dwelling units are covered. So that's what the state requires. The Fair Housing Act does not apply to this if it's a multistory dwelling unit. My question is, for that section it's talking about accessible bathroom, accessible common use area, accessible bedroom, kitchen, common area and laundry would have to be on an accessible route. So that means that everything in that multistory unit would have to be on the first floor. Andrew Thomas: Right. Jen Barrett: Okay. Andrew Thomas: For example, let's say a developer is building single-family homes, detached. They can meet the 30% requirement with this by having all of the main features of the room of the house on the ground floor. That doesn't mean they can't have bedrooms upstairs. They can have two, three stories above, all accessed by stairs, but on that ground floor you have to have the kitchen, living room, at least one bedroom, at least one accessible bathroom. Concept being, there's somebody who has mobility issues. They can live their life on that one floor. Kids can run up and down the stairs all day long. That was the idea. October 11, 2017 Page 5 of 13 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-07-25.pdf |