Chapter 7: The Americans With Disabilities Act
Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG)
Italicized text was added to the original Title III Technical
Assistance
Manual through supplements issued in 1993 and 1994.
Regulatory references: Appendix A to 28 CFR Part 36.
III-7.6000 Additions (ADAAG §4.1.5)
Each addition to an existing building is regarded as an alteration
subject to the ADAAG alterations requirements (including triggering of
path of travel obligations, if applicable). If the addition does not
have an accessible entrance, the path of travel obligation may require
an accessible route from the addition through the existing building,
including its entrance and exterior approaches, subject to the 20
percent disproportionality limitation. Moreover, to the extent that a
space or element is newly constructed as part of an addition,
it is also regarded as new construction and must comply with the
applicable
new construction provisions of ADAAG.
ILLUSTRATION: A new multistory
parking structure is
planned as an addition to an existing shopping mall that is served by
an
elevator. Each floor of the parking garage will be connected by an
accessible
route to the shopping mall. As an addition, the parking structure is
subject to
both the new construction and alterations requirements of ADAAG. If the
parking
structure functions as a separate building and may be used
independently of the
shopping mall -- for instance, when the shopping mall is not open for
business
--then it would not be sufficient to provide vertical access only
through the
shopping center. In that case, an elevator or accessible ramp would be
required
in the parking structure to serve each level of the garage. If, on the
other
hand, vertical access to each level of the garage may be achieved
through the
shopping mall at all times that the garage is open, an elevator or
accessible
ramp would not be required in the parking structure.
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