{"id":12795,"date":"2024-02-04T14:27:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T19:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=12795"},"modified":"2024-02-04T14:27:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T19:27:24","slug":"decaturs-ada-compliance-numbers-are-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/04\/decaturs-ada-compliance-numbers-are-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"Decatur&#8217;s ADA compliance numbers are strong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>State Community Crossings grants have provided major assistance to Decatur in the past seven or eight years, enabling it to resurface large numbers of streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The grants have also paid off in another manner, helping the city to remain in compliance with American Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the areas improved last year involve handicap ramps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe were required to do 12 last year and we did 48,\u201d Operations Manager Jeremy Gilbert recently informed city council in his annual ADA Review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThank goodness for Community Crossings,\u201d he said, noting that the city also used some of its Motor Vehicle Highway (MVH) and sidewalk monies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In all, the 48 improvements were made at 21 locations across the city, including 7 at various Nuttman Ave. intersections, plus 5 others on Fifth street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the passage of the ADA, federal officials began requiring compliance back in 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report also showed the various ramps improvements which are color coded, a system Gilbert said he uses as \u201cit helps to prioritize.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that anyone with a request to have a barrier handicap ramp removed should contact him at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:jgilbert@decatur.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">jgilbert@decatur.org<\/a>, or by calling 724-3356.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m proud to say that we had zero requests last year,\u201d Gilbert told council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com State Community Crossings grants have provided major assistance to Decatur in the past seven<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-12795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-community"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/DA76BB0E371A468598D130BF30F67A7C.jpg?fit=442%2C154&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}