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Harvard needs to make special individual accommodations because the alternative--renovating all buildings to make them comply with ADA--would be completely unrealistic...
...since the passage of ADA, the College has never been the subject of a legal complaint...
...were to devote the resources to make all our buildings compliant as soon as possible, we would have to freeze everything else," Zewinski says. "It's obviously a huge amount of money to make Harvard ADA -compliant...
Among other things, ADA and MAAB codes dictate that doors must be wide enough for wheelchairs, in addition to detailing things like the height of bathroom urinals and the positioning of hand railings. They also mandate that people with disabilities be able to use the primary entrance to a building and be able to access all its floors...
Unlike the last major renovation of the House system, renovation of the first-year dorms began after ADA had been passed--and the Yard solution is a prime example of how FAS must compromise competing concerns of cost, students' needs and historic preservation...