The lifeguards should beat the “codes inspectors” (enforcers) to death with their floats and claim that they were saving the human race from cases of terminal stupidity entering/continuing-within the gene-pool.
The city should say no and be prepared to close the beach.
I’ve seen braille signs outside pilot’s lounges in several airports. Right outside our office, halfway down the corridor there is a braille sign on the wall. Have no idea what it says, or how a blind person could know it is there for it to be of any value.
Lol! The scope of this stupidity is simply astounding.
What is the handicapped answer to the fire pole in the fire house? Can you imagine TIMMAY as a fire man?
As an Architect working on prison designs, I regularly have to provide ADA accessible spaces for all the blind and wheelchair bound prison guards. No exceptions.
Tennessee had to remove many roadside rest areas along 41 and 411 South to Atl. because they were not ADA compliant.
So cripples should be in the life guard chairs too?
Should we also allow toddlers and infants to climb or crawl up the stand?
This is getting ridiculous!
Who thought this one up?
BTW, how much will this COST TAX PAYERS?
I have to admit, Demoncrats think of more idioitc and wasteful way to SPEND the MONEY of OTHERS.
Will a UNION get the contract to BUILD these things?
I would not be surprised if it is cheaper to waste money on stuff like this than to fund the beaurocracy needed to decide on a case by case basis what is required.
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“”It’s odd. Obviously no one here is handicapped. No one in a wheelchair has ever asked to come up here,” head lifeguard Donovan Burns said during an interview on the building’s second floor. He noted that disabled people can borrow fat-tired beach wheelchairs from the lifeguard station for free, but those are stored on the ground floor.”
Nope, can’t have that!
“The little yellow building near Pier 60 has to be brought into compliance with the state building code and the federal Americans with Disabilities Act.”
Proof government peopple have NO COMMON SENSE!
“This was triggered when Clearwater recently decided to spend $455,700 of revenue from beach parking meters to renovate and expand the lifeguard building. Among other things, the city will be adding a third floor so the lifeguards can see the entire beach better.”
Ah, so they see MONEY and need to SPEND it quickly!
“Clearwater officials are a bit baffled by the order to make the upper floors handicapped-accessible. They expected to get a waiver so they could skip that requirement, but the state turned them down.”
So does that mean I can go up there too even though I am not disabled?
“The Florida Building Commission says it turned down the city’s request for a waiver because it wouldn’t cost more than 20 percent of the construction job to make the building accessible to the disabled.”
Oh, I get it!
If the idiotic state requirment is NOT over 20% of the ENTIRE construction cost, then it MUST happen!
Well when unions are involved, it will exceed that but notice how FUZZY they are on the COST. When it becomes apparant that it will EXCEED 20%, as they are builiding it, you know what will happen.
They’ll say, “We’ve already started it.”
“We need to finish it and eat the cost.”
Oh, I get it!
If the idiotic state requirement is NOT over 20% of the ENTIRE construction cost, then it MUST happen!
Well when unions are involved, it will exceed that but notice how FUZZY they are on the COST. When it becomes apparent that it will EXCEED 20%, as they are building it, you know what will happen.
They'll say, “We've already started it.”
“We need to finish it and eat the cost.”
Wheelchairs-accessible for lifeguard station make as much sense as demanding braille billboards
In my world those who would mandate such stupidity would be required to pay for it out of their own pockets and not force others to fund it.
A number of years ago I was on the City Design Review Committee and a proposed indoor skateboarding facility failed to be built because...
You guessed it.
No one seems aware that from the beginning of our Country's history, there have been continuous examples of states or groups ignoring federal mandates. Successfully.
We have become a nation of criminals -- and wimps. Predator and prey.
Politician and citizen.