I think the apartment management had legal grounds for denying my request
to widen 
the doorways to the back bathroom and closet because doing so would be
modifying 
structures that can't be easily changed back and the apartment complex was
built 
in the early 1980s, so it's "grandfathered" anyway.

In any case, I can easily get about the flat and that's the important
thing. It'd
be a lot harder if I couldn't reach to the back of the stove or get out of
my 
wheelchair to reach the upper cabinets.

Kat


Original Message:
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From: Joy Welan [log in to unmask]
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 12:22:25 -0500
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Accessibility in apartments


Discrimination includes--

(A) a refusal to permit, at the expense of the handicapped person,
reasonable modifications of existing premises occupied or to be
occupied by such person if such modifications may be necessary to
afford such person full enjoyment of the premises except that, in the
case of a rental, the landlord may where it is reasonable to do so
condition permission for a modification on the renter agreeing to
restore the interior of the premises to the condition that existed
before the modification, reasonable wear and tear excepted.


(C) in connection with the design and construction of covered
multifamily dwellings for first occupancy after the date that is 30
months after September 13, 1988, a failure to design and construct
those dwellings in such a manner that--

(i) the public use and common use portions of such dwellings are
readily accessible to and usable by handicapped persons;

(ii) all the doors designed to allow passage into and within all
premises within such dwellings are sufficiently wide to allow passage
by handicapped persons in wheelchairs; and

(iii) all premises within such dwellings contain the following
features of adaptive design:



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