https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/09/help-disabled-fixing-ada-scams/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Mon, 22 Sep 2014 18:37:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/09/help-disabled-fixing-ada-scams/comment-page-1/#comment-303822 Mon, 22 Sep 2014 18:37:09 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=48318#comment-303822 That depends on how you define “unusable and dangerous”. If you mean “someone can’t get up it” that’s a problem. If you mean “not in compliance with the spec but not so much so as to prevent people getting up it”, that’s not a problem.

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/09/help-disabled-fixing-ada-scams/comment-page-1/#comment-303816 Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:11:38 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=48318#comment-303816 At first glace “a ramp 2 degrees too steep” doesn’t sound like a big deal; however, once you realize the maximum allowed slope for a ramp is 1:12 or 4.76 degrees – adding an additional 2 degrees is significant! At that slope, it would make the ramp unusable and dangerous.

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