Some of the ADA rules may seem "over the top" to some people with the accommodations for handicapped folks (and I'll admit, like any gov't bureaucracy they tend to get bogged down in minutia.) But it's usually "over the top" for those folks who have won the health lottery, so to speak, and still have their mobility. Lose your ability to get around without a wheelchair, and then talk to me about the inconvenience of curb cut construction...I guarantee you you'll be for them, not against them.
Hill says hotels can comply by doing what they can afford to do, even if it's installing a portable lift that's stored when not in use. If a hotel lacks the money to buy one, she says, it can create a plan that shows when it expects to get one.
A person needs to be able to access sidewalks etc and those are government issues in most places. Installing a pool lift is way over the top. Disability brings with it limitations as to what a person can REASONABLY do.
My wife is disabled from Transverse Myleitus 26 years ago. It hit her at C-5 and C-6 incomplete quad. It's been motorized wheelchairs ever since. I'm disabled 17 years now. Only with my disablility I can walk. But things like loud store P.A. systems can trigger seizures. So should I have the right to demand Walmart, Lowes, Home Depot, etc not make announcements and keep their stores quiet to accomidate my disability? I also walk with a cane now due to balance issues. I have enough common sense especially after four falls last year to not climb ladders anymore. Does that mean government should come clean the leaves off my roof now or force a landscaper to do so uncompensated?
ADA as applied to private businesses is an unfunded and Unconstitutional mandate. Some of its requirements can get quite expensive especially for Mom and Pop stores. We frequent a Mom and Pop gift shop on a regular basis. The owners go out of their way to bring my wife items she is looking for to give as gifts. Their store is in an old one story building with about four different floor levels on the ground floor. To adapt it and make it accessible would take most of their retail space. I do not think anyone especially government has the right to force a private business into upgrading to meet ADA.
. They are stuck in a quandry. If they want to expand in any way the codes will make them do such to make meaning the entire store ADA suitable. No part of government should have the authority to mandate this insanity into the private sector which is where the real issues and abuses are occuring.