Lawsuit Forces Closure Of Kids' Basketball Gym

[Elspode]

Originally Posted by lookout123

and what if they don't have the money in the budget to make the building compliant?

Then they didn't have enough money to be in business in the first place. ADA is not optional, therefore, being compliant is as much a cost of doing business as property taxes, insurance and lease payments.

[Bullitt]

The video states that because the same services are available upstairs as downstairs, there was no need to put in an elevator to the second floor for those who can't do stairs. The video makes it out to seem like they were in fact compliant, but this dude just has a stick up his ass. Who knows maybe an employee was snotty to him about it and only offered to carry him up or move the event downstairs after lengthy haggling. Given the nature of the person they interviewed though, that seems unlikely.

[lookout123]

Originally Posted by Elspode

Then they didn't have enough money to be in business in the first place. ADA is not optional, therefore, being compliant is as much a cost of doing business as property taxes, insurance and lease payments.

OK, compliant was poor word usage on my part. Check out the rest of the story and ask yourself if this was a business choosing not to comply or a guy who is just being a dick. Identical facilities, up and down, employees offered to take him upstairs. They relocated the party to identical facilities downstairs. No one missed a party or activity because the building didn't have an elevator.