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Disabilities Act):
As far as I can tell, there is essentially no post-construction enforcement of this act’s requirements, and as a consequence, businesses in our fair county have done the most extraordinary things to make life difficult for those who can’t get around on their own two legs: they’ve pulled out the ramps they had initially put in to comply with code; they’ve placed planters, chairs and other obstructions in the way of where a wheelchair would have to roll; they park delivery vehicles in handicapped zones; they remove required “handicapped parking” signs and more.
(And spend even 20 minutes in Little Washington and you can see people regularly violate the woefully insufficient handicapped parking provided there—and sheriff’s deputies parked directly adjacent seem to be instructed to not take any notice.)
Some day we are going to come to the rude awakening that some of those out here who are non-able-bodied, non-”hearty farmer stock” are possessed of keen legal minds (not to mention legal degrees). And then Rappahannock County, the businesses contained herein —each of which can be individually targeted under the law for not making “reasonable accommodations”— and our governing officials are all going to be in a heap of trouble.
Now, why should it have to wait for legal action, tortuously negotiated “consent decrees” and the like for us to have compassion for our less able-bodied compatriots?
Micah Solomon
President and CEO
Oasis CD Manufacturing
Sperryville
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