ACCESSIBILITY
CODE WORKGROUP
REPORT TO THE FLORIDA BUILDING COMMISSION
August 10,
2009
Melbourne, Florida
Facilitation, Meeting and Process
Design By
Report By Jeff A. Blair
FCRC Consensus Center
Florida Conflict Resolution
Consortium
Florida State University
jblair@fsu.edu
http://
consensus.fsu.edu
This document is available in
alternate formats upon request to Dept. of Community Affairs,
Codes & Standards, 2555 Shumard
Oak Blvd., Tallahassee, FL 32399, (850) 487-1824.
FLORIDA BUILDING COMMISSION
FLORIDA ACCESSIBILITY CODE WORKGROUP REPORT
August 10, 2009
OVERVIEW
The scope of the Workgroup is to develop
recommendations for amending the Florida Accessibility Code for Building
Construction once the US Department of Justice completes its adoption of the
next generation of the ADA Accessibility Standards. The task is to
integrate the relevant Florida standards in ss. 553.501-553.513, F.S., into the
2004 ADAAG as adopted by 28 CFR 36 (prospective). Although DOJ's process is not
complete, the Workgroup will begin with the 2004 ADAAG and modify the new draft
FACBC to reflect DOJ's amendments when those are available.
The process for developing the new
Accessibility Code will be divided into major tasks as follows:
Task 1:
Integration of Florida standards located in the
current Florida Accessibility Code into sections of the 2004 ADAAG that have a
one for one parallel section.
Task 2:
Deciding what to do with Florida standards that
are in sections/subsections of 1994 SAD that do not have a one for one parallel
section in the 2004 ADAAG.
Task 3:
Integration of Florida standards into new
sections in the 2004 ADAAG that have no parallel in the Florida Accessibility
Code (e.g., recreational facilities).
Task 4:
Revising the draft Florida Accessibility Code
based on the 2004 ADAAG for changes made by DOJ in its rule making.
Workgroup Adopted Project Strategy
The Workgroup voted
unanimously, 18 - 0 in favor, to integrate all current Florida Specific
requirements into the Proposed DOJ SAD (Standards for Accessible Design), June
2008, and concurrently evaluate and make recommendations on the Florida
Specific requirements and ancillary topics, with recommendations forwarded to
the Legislature for enhancements or removal of specific Florida requirements
and ancillary issues.
At Meeting I the Workgroup was
asked as a threshold question whether to proceed with consideration regarding
integrating the Florida Specific requirements into the DOJ SAD, June 2008 or
delay pending completion of rulemaking.
Workgroup Action:
Motion—The Workgroup voted unanimously, 18 - 0 in favor,
to move forward with developing the
new Florida
Accessibility Code without delay.
MEMBERS AND REPRESENTATION
Raul L. Rodriguez, AIA,
Chair of the Florida Building Commission, made the following appointments to
the Florida Accessibility Code Workgroup. Members are charged with representing
their stakeholder group’s interests, and working with other interest groups to
develop consensus package(s) of recommendations for submittal to the Commission.
Donald Dawkins*, Bemmie
Eustace, Kiko Franco, Skip Gregory, Jeff Gross, Jon Hamrick,
Jack Humburg, Diana
Ibarra, Julia Kates, Chris Masal*, Sharon Mignardi, John O'Conner*,
Barbara Page, Catherine
Powell, Ben Ritter, Larry Schneider, Jim Schock, Shelly Siegal, Julie Shaw*,
Randy Vann, Steve Watson, and Phillip Wisely.
*(Note: membership list
is updated to include August 11, 2009 appointments)
REPORT OF THE AUGUST
10, 2009 MEETING
Opening and
Meeting Attendance
The meeting started at
1:00 PM, and the following Workgroup members were present:
Bemmie Eustace, Jeff
Gross, Jon Hamrick, Jack Humburg, Julia Kates, Barbara Page,
Catherine Powell, Larry
Schneider, Jim Schock, Shelly Siegal, and Steve Watson
Members
Absent:
Kiko
Franco, Skip Gregory, Diana Ibarra, Sharon Mignardi, Ben Ritter, Randy Vann,
and
Phillip
Wisely.
DCA Staff Present
Rick Dixon, Bruce
Ketcham, and Mary Kathryn Smith.
Meeting
Facilitation
The meeting was facilitated
by Jeff Blair from the FCRC Consensus Center at Florida State University.
Information at: http://consensus.fsu.edu/
Project
Webpage
Information on the
project, including agenda packets, meeting reports, and related documents may
be found in downloadable formats at the project webpage below:
http://consensus.fsu.edu/FBC/accessibility-code.html
Agenda Review and Approval
The Workgroup voted
unanimously, 11 - 0 in favor, to approve the agenda as presented including the
following objectives:
ü
To Approve
Regular Procedural Topics (Agenda and Summary Report)
ü
To Review Draft
Integration of Florida Specific Requirements
ü
To Discuss
and Evaluate Level of Acceptability of Draft Integration into SAD
ü
To Discuss
Project Tasks and Identify Needed Information and Assignments
ü
To Consider
Public Comment
ü
To Identify
Needed Next Steps and Agenda Items for Next Meeting
April 6,
2009 Facilitator’s Summary Report Approval
Jeff Blair, Commission Facilitator, asked if any
members had corrections or additions to the
April 6, 2009 Report, and none were offered.
The Workgroup voted
unanimously, 11 - 0 in favor, to approve the April 6, 2009 Facilitator’s
Summary Report as presented.
Review
and Discussion of Draft Integration of Florida Specific Requirements into SAD
·
Review of the integration of ss.553.502-553.508 (except parking)
into the 2004 ADAAG
·
Review of the integration of parking, ss.553.5041 and 553.511, into
the 2004 ADAAG
·
Discussion on integration of vertical accessibility, s.553.509, into
the 2004 ADAAG
During Meeting I (February 2, 2009), The Workgroup
voted unanimously to integrate all current Florida Specific requirements into
the Proposed DOJ SAD, June 2008, “Proposed ADA Standards for Accessible Design”.
During Meeting II (April 6, 2009) Members were requested to identify, discuss
and evaluate a range of options regarding the integration of Florida Specific
Requirements into SAD. For each of the Florida Specific Requirements, member’s
were asked to identify a range of potential options for the Workgroup to
consider. A preliminary list of options were proposed by members as a
pre-meeting assignment, and the Workgroup was requested to discuss and add any
additional relevant options they
deemed appropriate. Options with 75% or greater
number of 4’s and 3’s in proportion to 2’s and 1’s shall be considered
consensus recommendations. Members of the public were also invited to provide
feedback and options for evaluation. Between meetings Workgroup members were
requested to send their proposed options to Jeff Blair for compilation in the
"Florida Specific Requirement Integration Draft".
During Meeting III (August 10, 2009) members
continued the process of reviewing options for the integration of Florida
Specific Requirements into the Proposed DOJ SAD, June 2008. Members reviewed
remaining Florida Specific requirements and parking requirements. The Vertical
Accessibility requirements integration options will be reviewed at the October
12, 2009 meeting.
The Results of the Options Ranking Exercise are
included as Attachment 3 of this Report.
(Attachment 3—Key to Options and Options
Evaluation Exercise Results)
Discussion of Project Tasks and Identification of
Assignments
Members were asked to review key project tasks and
to identify any needed documents/information.
In addition, members of the public were invited to
provide comments on same.
General
Public Comment
Members of the
public were invited to provide the Workgroup with comments.
There were no general public comments provided.
Members of the public were provided opportunities spoke on each of the substantive
discussion issues before the Workgroup.
Review of Workgroup
Delivery and Meeting Schedule
The
Workgroup’s meeting schedule for 2009 is as follows:
February 2, April 6, August 10, and October 12, 2009.
Next Steps
Staff will prepare a
draft integrating Florida Specific Requirements as revised by the Workgroup.
At the next meeting the
Workgroup will review, evaluate and decide on integration of vertical
accessibility requirements and the final integration draft.
Assignments
Staff
to prepare revised draft integrating
Florida Specific Requirements into the Proposed ADA Standards for Accessible
Design, and a guide (key) to comment locations.
Adjournment
The
Workgroup voted unanimously, 11 – 0 in favor, to adjourn at 5:10 PM.
ATTACHMENT
1
MEETING EVALUATION
Average rank using a 0 to 10
scale, where 0 means totally disagree
and 10 means totally agree.
1. Please
assess the overall meeting.
9.50 The
background information was very useful.
9.25 The
agenda packet was very useful.
9.25 The
objectives for the meeting were stated at the outset.
9.25
Overall, the objectives of the meeting were fully achieved.
2. Do you agree that each of the following
meeting objectives was achieved?
9.25
Review of Draft Integration of Florida Specific Requirements.
9.25 Evaluation of Level of Acceptability of Draft
Integration into SAD.
9.25
Discussion of Project Tasks and Identification of Information Development
Needs.
9.25
Identification of Next Steps.
9.75 The members followed the direction of the
Facilitator.
9.75 The Facilitator made sure the concerns of all
members were heard.
9.25 The Facilitator helped us arrange our time well.
9.75 Participant input was documented accurately.
4. Please tell us your level of
satisfaction with the meeting?
9.50 Overall, I am very satisfied with the meeting.
9.50 I was very satisfied with the services provided by
the Facilitator.
9.50 I am satisfied with the outcome of the meeting.
5. Please tell us how well the next steps
were communicated?
9.25 I
know what the next steps following this meeting will be.
9.25 I
know who is responsible for the next steps.
6. What
did you like best about the meeting?
- Stayed on track.
7. How
could the meeting have been improved?
No comments offered.
ATTACHMENT
2
MEETING
ATTENDANCE—PUBLIC
Public Meeting Attendance
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Name
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Dana Sloan
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Julie Shaw
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Kristi Chaponan
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Angela Van Etten
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David Milligan
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Donald Dawkins
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Patrick McCallisters
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ATTACHMENT 3
OPTIONS EVALUATION RESULTS
Members were
asked to provide recommendations for integrating the 19 Florida Specific
Requirements into the DOJ SAD, June 2008. The draft of the proposed
integration, and a Draft with the Workgroup's comments and actions from the
August 2009 meeting, may be viewed on the project webpage as follows: http://consensus.fsu.edu/FBC/accessibility-code.html
LOCATION OF COMMENTS IN
DRAFT INTEGRATED ADAAG/FLORIDA
Section 101.2 Barrier Removal P.
2
Section 101.4 Code construction P.2
Section 201.1 Dates P.
16
Section 202.1 Vertical accessibility P. 16
Section 202.1.1 Churches P. 16
Section 202.1.1 Alterations P. 16
Section 202.1.1Conflict with law P. 17
Section 202.3 Alterations P.
17
Section 202.3 Vertical accessibility P. 17
Section 202.3 Parking scope P.
17
Section 202.4 Vertical accessibility P. 17
Section 203.1 Construction sites P.
18
Section 203.3 Vertical
accessibility P.
18
Section 203.4 Vertical accessibility P. 18
Section 203.5 Vertical accessibility P. 18
Section 203.6 Vertical accessibility P. 19
Section 203.7 Vertical accessibility P. 19
Section 203.8 Vertical accessibility P. 19
Section 203.9 Vertical accessibility P. 19
Section 203.10 Vertical accessibility P.
19
Section 203.11 Vertical accessibility P. 20
Section 203.12 Vertical accessibility P. 20
Section 203.13 Vertical accessibility P. 20
Section 203.14 Vertical accessibility P. 20
Section 203.15 Vertical accessibility P. 20
Section 206.1.1 Residential elevators P. 21
Section 206.2.3 Accessible route P.
22
Section 206.2.7 Accessible route P.
23
Section 207.2.7 Accessible route P.
23
Section 206.2.4 Vertical accessibility P. 25
Section 206.2.5 4. Renumbering P.
25
Section 206.4.5 Tenant spaces P. 28
Section 207.1 Accessible means of egress P.
30
Section 207.2 Platform lifts P.
31
Section 208.1.1 Parking P.
31
Section 208.2.3 Residential parking P. 32
Section 208.3.1 Parking spaces P.
33
Section 208.3.3 Parking P.
34
Section 208.3.4 Parking P.
34
Section 209.2.1.1 Parking
and loading zones P.
35
Section 217.1 Public telephones P.
41
Table 224.2 Hotel guest rooms P.
48
Section 227.2 Check out aisles P. 50
Section 233.3.6 Toilet room door width P. 55
Section 240.1 Play equipment P. 59
Section 303.4 Ramps P. 62
Section 404.1 Door width P.
73
Section 405.7.3 Ramp landing length P. 82
Section 406.1.2 Numbering P.
84
Section 406.3 Sides of Curb Ramps P. 84
Section 502.1.1 Parking P.
101
Section 502.2 P.
101
Figure 502.2 Parking space P.
102
Figure 502.3 Parking space P.
102
Figure 9(a) Parking P.
103
Section 502.3.5 Parking space P. 104
Section 502.8 Parking P. 104
Section 505.10.1.1 Ramp extensions P. 110
Section 1001 Amusement rides and parks P.
170