Tell the hotel associations to stop trying to weaken the ADA!

From Center for Disability Rights: (click for full article)

In 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a proposed rule that would require hotels with pools and other pools open to the public to provide lifts or sloped entries to make the pools accessible to people who use wheelchairs or have other mobility disabilities.  The rule was set to go into effect on March 15, 2012, giving these pool owners two years to install pool lifts.  Instead of urging their members to comply with the rules and provide access, the American Hotel and Lodging Association (AH&LA) and the Asian American Hotel Owners Association (AAHOA) launched a campaign to overturn the access requirement and weaken the ADA.

The hotel industry has used many excuses to avoid installing pool lifts, including:
* Installing pool lifts are too expensive;
* Fixed pool lifts are unsafe for other guests and their children;
* People with disabilities don’t go to hotels; and
* People with disabilities will make pools unsanitary.

They said actually we’d poop in their pools!  Seriously.

The Disability Community has attempted to work with these hotel associations to resolve this issue, but the hotel associations have made it clear that they will keep fighting the requirement to install fixed pool lifts.

Comments

[Dana Marshall]

As an ADA inspector, I see a lot of stuff, besides the pool problem, service animals not being allowed in gets me in the door, then I do inspections for physical problems. right now, though, I need a lawyer to back me up... lost my lawyer, when she moved onto other things. can you contact me?

[Patricia Dudek]

Dana, I am licensed to practice only in Michigan. Where do you live?