ADA Transition Plan Survey
ADA Transition Plan Survey
This survey should take less than 10 minutes to complete. Your response will help us develop a transition plan for the Public Rights-of-Way in Asheville. This includes public streets, sidewalks, road crossings and pedestrian signals, greenways, bus stops, and on-street parking. We are calling this the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) Transition Plan, or Transition Plan for short. More information on the ADA or Transition Plans is provided in the Background Information section (below right).
Please call if you need help with any questions or need someone to read the questions to or input answers for you: Barb Mee, 828-232-4540. When you have completed this survey, please take the pedestrian and greenway specific survey. Thank you for your participation!
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Background Information
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on someone’s disability. Title II of the Act, requires cities and towns to have a plan to make accommodations for everyone. The City of Asheville is conducting an ADA Self-Evaluation and is developing a Transition Plan for the Public Rights-of-Way. Examples of public right-of-way include public streets, sidewalks, road crossings and pedestrian signals, greenways, bus stops, and on-street parking. We are calling this the ADA Transition Plan, or Transition Plan for short.
The overall goal of the Transition Plan is to remove barriers in Asheville’s public right of way so that pedestrians with disabilities can fully access all of the amenities the City has to offer.
- Identify barriers that make it hard for people to travel and prioritize the areas that have the biggest impact.
- Consider the methods to be used to make the improvements
- Develop a schedule with benchmarks for barriers removal
- Adopt a plan, schedule, and planning-level cost estimates to improve the pedestrian network.
When we say, accessibility, we mean, “your access to sidewalks, pedestrian street crossings, pedestrian signals, and other facilities for pedestrian circulation and use ”.
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed and signed into law by President George H.W. Bush on July 26, 1990.
Questions?
General Pedestrian Questions
Barb Mee, AICP, Pedestrian and Bicycle Coordinator
Transportation Department
City of Asheville
70 Court Plaza
Asheville, NC 28801
Telephone: 828-232-4540
Fax: 828-259-5686
Specific ADA Questions
Brad Stein, ADA Coordinator
Risk Management Division
City of Asheville
70 Court Plaza
Asheville, NC 28801
Telephone: 828-259-5687
Fax: 828-259-5686