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COUNCIL ACTION FORM
Date: Sept. 22, 1981
SUBJECT: lst Reading of an Ordinance designating handicapped parking spaces.
BACKGROUND: Effective January 1st, 1982, the Code of Iowa requires non-
residential public and private buildings and facilities and
residential public and private buildings and facilities to
provide specified numbers of handicapped parking spaces.
Specifically the code will require non-residential facilities
which provide 48 or more parking spaces to designate 6/10th of
1% of those spaces as handicapped parking spaces ; and residential
facilities which provide 12 or more parking spaces must provide
at least 1 handicapped parking space for each dwelling unit
in which a handicapped person resides.
The proposed handicapped parking ordinance would include the
requirements of the Iowa Code in the Ames Municipal Code. The
ordinance would be in full force and effect on the lst day of
January 1982, which coincides with the effective date of the
Iowa Code provision.
ALTERNATIVES: 1. Approve the proposed Ordinance on its first reading.
2. Refrain from adopting the ordinance and allow the
State Building Commissioner to ',have the responsibility
of handicapped space enforcement.
MANAGER'S RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approval of the proposed Ordinance on its first
reading.
COUNCIL ACTION: