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Mr. Abell and his wheelchair up the courtroom steps, back down when the board was ousted by a court hearing, up the steps to the clerk’s office, down to the basement meeting room and then back up and down when Mr. Abell was ready to leave.
His departure came after the board directed the committee to meet again with Charlottesville architect Michael Ridenaur on alternative plans for providing access to the courthouse.
Zoning Administrator John McCarthy, chairman of the handicapped access committee, reported that Mr. Ridenaur had come up with a new approach for providing access to the upstairs courtroom without significantly changing the exterior of the historic red brick building.
The architect suggests a ramp from the rear parking lot through what is now the breathalizer room where a special chair lift capable of rounding right angles would be installed. The chairlift, which would be folded flat against the wall when not used, would go up a new duplicate stairway to the right of the existing stairway. (The existing stairway can’t be used for the chairlift because its width would be reduced below the minimum set by the state fire code.) Mr. Ridenaur’s sugContinued
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