[Dixielandjazz] Let's be realistic about seating for EVERYONE

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In a message dated 8/15/2006 7:59:01 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
JBruno868 at aol.com writes:

I am  referring to the most  important Regulation broken which is that any  
grouping of 300 or more,  must have Dispersed Handicapped Seating in  all 
price 
ranges. Title 111 of  the ADA Regulations. That included's  Patron's Seating 
and 
seating in the  General areas. Dispersed  Seating, too define it for you, 
means 
not all grouped into the very back  but spread out to all seating and having 
room  for a wheelchair and  companion seat NEXT to the handicapped seating. 



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Sorry Judie, but as a festival director and concert promoter, this may in  
fact be some obscure law, but it is ridiculous and IMPOSSIBLE!  We people  
putting on concerts might as well shut the doors, if we were forced to have  
handicapped seating in EVERY ticket range.  It CAN'T be done for many  reasons, many 
of which have to do with fixed seats in an auditorium or  theater.  I have 
NEVER in 40 years of producing and performing, seen  handicapped seating at 
every level.  Come on, be realistic.  Most  venues and concert promoters do their 
very best to accommodate handicapped  people, but what you are asking is 
absurd.
Mike Vax