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E-architect columnist Joel Solkoff, at the request of State College Mayor Elizabeth Goreham, proposes two ordinances requiring new houses and housing units of fewer than four be accessible so a person with a mobility disability can visit. The visitability movement was created by Eleanor Smith, founder of Concrete Change. Fifty municipalities in the U.S. have already adopted visitability ordinances withholding building permits for small housing units which do not contain a wheel chair accessible entrance, a door wide enough to get in, and a half-bathroom on the main floor with a wide doorway. Read more about the visitability movement in Solkoff's forthcoming e-architect column, Volume II, Number 7.
E-architect columnist Joel Solkoff, at the request of State College Mayor Elizabeth Goreham, proposes two ordinances requiring new houses and housing units of fewer than four be accessible so a person with a mobility disability can visit. The visitability movement was created by Eleanor Smith, founder of Concrete Change. Fifty municipalities in the U.S. have already adopted visitability ordinances withholding building permits for small housing units which do not contain a wheel chair accessible entrance, a door wide enough to get in, and a half-bathroom on the main floor with a wide doorway. Read more about the visitability movement in Solkoff's forthcoming e-architect column, Volume II, Number 7.
