Commercial Construction & Renovation

SEP-OCT 2013

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Looking up CCR: Is there a certain criteria for how many parking spaces a store should have? MacCannell: There is. They're based on the number of spaces you have. If you have X amount of parking spaces, you must designated a certain amount to handicapped spots. Sacharski: Besides the normal ADA parking, you also must have van accessibility, which are full spaces and almost a half because of that extra space for the van. Some of the buildings and footprints on buildings and properties that are 30 or 40 years old now have to comply with the ruling. In order to have a business license today, you have to comply with the ruling. You have to have X amount of parking spaces available just for your guests and now you have to work the ADA angle. MacCannell: People who do restriping made some money. the landlord retrofit the doors, and she said to me, "It's not a code issue." And I said, "You're right; it's not a code issue. It's a civil rights issue. So, if you want me to sue you, which I will, put these in." I did not have equal access to work. I had to call someone in the offce to come in and open the door for me. That's not right. Sacharski: It's all about education. We have an area in some of our properties called "The market." In order to get over the 1730 for the reach, we brought everything down that's on the shelves and put it in a basket so it's right there. We complied. We don't want to discriminate against anybody. I have family members and dear friends who are handicapped and in wheelchairs. It's close to home for me – very close to home. I understand that because I'm in a wheelchair I shouldn't have to ask for assistance. I should be able to do it on my own. Ferris: We have a roll-out that we just got because of some labor laws in California to put in new time clocks across a bunch of stores – 200 or so. We have to mount them 52.5 inches high. So, if what you are doing is to be ADA compliant, how much of the money can go toward the ADA spend? Should we break those numbers out? Whalen: The labor would go toward that. Ferris: We're not providing the time clocks, ADP is. We're installing them so we should break that out in the invoice. Sacharski: You bet. CCR: How far off have companies been on being ADA compliant? MacCannell: A store can be perfectly compliant, but if a manager moves a table it could be out. All it takes is one person to walk in or call. Sacharski: Do you know how many hot tubs we've abandoned? Sacharski: I had to go and back out numbers to come up with what was spent specifcally on a project two years ago. Moving forward, it will be real easy to price it out. It's real easy for the procurement company that you're using to say, "Look, these are the grab bars I need. These are straight shower rods and shower curtains. This is the toilets [etc.]. I believe 100 percent of that labor defnitely goes against what you've spent, what you put in. And then you put in your action plan what you plan on spending for your fve-year plan. If it's just upgrading shower curtains, that cost can go into that. Ferris: Yes. The time clock had to go in because of labor laws. It was interesting to me. It makes the spend easier to accomplish. MacCannell: We're fnding it nationally. Kasmir: We work in a very old shopping center. We take over the second floor of this little mall. I broke my foot and was on crutches. The building was so old that they didn't have the automatic door push, so I could not get into the building. I made 66 MacCannell: One of the biggest things we tell people is that if you're doing good and you know it, that's good. If you're doing bad and you know it, that's good. But if you don't know how you're doing, that's the worst-case scenario. The worst thing you can do is to ignore it. It is education. CCR CommerCial ConstruCtion & renovation — September : OctOber 2013

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