02-11-2015, 12:37 AM
(02-06-2015, 01:38 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(02-06-2015, 01:12 PM)kwliving Wrote: No accessible/barrier free housing in this development is pitiful. Our province has mandated "full" accessibility by 2025 yet there is no mandate to make private developments like this have even one accessible living unit.
These developers are not alone in building "stairy" housing. I just wish it would stop.
But does every new building need to be accessible? As long as there is a decent selection of accessible housing, surely people should also be able to (build and) live in townhouse-style housing like this, if they so prefer.
(That said, it's not what I want personally, but many other people do seem to like this.)
Community accessibility would be best served by modern universal design principles being applied to every building approval from single family homes to large public and private project sites and high rise buildings.
Unfortunately at both the provincial and federal level we live with outdated and nearly 20 year old building codes (a few revisions don't count as meaningful change).