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

[Hal Vickery]

Obscure?  This is Federal Law.  I found the pertinent passage in less than
two minutes of searching on the web.  Here it is:

"4.33.3* Placement of Wheelchair Locations. Wheelchair areas shall be an
integral part of any fixed seating plan and shall be provided so as to
provide people with physical disabilities a choice of admission prices and
lines of sight comparable to those for members of the general public. They
shall adjoin an accessible route that also serves as a means of egress in
case of emergency. At least one companion fixed seat shall be provided next
to each wheelchair seating area. When the seating capacity exceeds 300,
wheelchair spaces shall be provided in more than one location. Readily
removable seats may be installed in wheelchair spaces when the spaces are
not required to accommodate wheelchair users.

"EXCEPTION: Accessible viewing positions may be clustered for bleachers,
balconies, and other areas having sight lines that require slopes of greater
than 5 percent. Equivalent accessible viewing positions may be located on
levels having accessible egress."

I don't think the law could be any more clear.

Hal Vickery

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

 
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
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