On Saturday, December 18, 2004, at 11:44 AM, jon.kelland wrote:
Raising the issue of disability, and bringing this discussion back to the scope of this list, I don't recall there being much discussion of disability issues here, though this could largely be due to my recent disability awareness. I'll do an archive search after this note, but has there been talk of Universal Design and accessibility? The study that was done on this list a couple years back, I'm pretty sure, didn't raise the question of list-users that have disabilities, which could be interesting. I have heard from folks here in Chicago that Minneapolis is a pretty accessible city - again, not something I thought about while I was there - any thoughts on this?
Minneapolis was at one time a leader in accessability- we started putting curb cuts in back in the early '70s and by the time the ADA was passed we were already largely in compliance. Since then we've been slouching on our laurels, with thousands of new housing units built with steps on the front. The worst example of this is (Hazmat) Heritage Park, where despite the city having veto power on the design the buildings are little if any more accessible than the old public housing they replaced. Given that (Hazmat) Heritage Park will probably become de facto public housing, they should have at least made it accessible to the many public housing residents who can't do steps.
hanging on in Hawthorne,
Dyna Sluyter
REMINDERS:
1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait.
For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________
Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
