- Slope and Drainage Constraints on Site

My name is Sean Newberry and I work for Incu mason Architects. Today I'm gonna be looking at how to use the 2010 Americans with Disabilities Act, to bring an existing project into compliance and up to code. As you can see on these two plans, the overall, as well as the close-up version of the rand plan. There's a lot going on this site, we've got trees, we've got accessible parking, we've got trench drain and we have stairs. We did have parking considerations to think about though, with this site. Well, the site itself did have the appropriate amount of accessible parking spaces, none of them were adjacent to the unit in question.

Which is inconvenient to say the least for anybody who needs those units and needs those parking spaces. We were tasked with looking at how to incorporate new accessible parking spaces into the parking around this unit. We were hemmend in on one side by a french drain that ran the entire width of the parking, our own parking spaces, as well as the fact that the existing parking spaces sloped much more dramatically than 2010 ADRS would let us have. So we had to preserve the site drainage as well as bring up the pavement without touching drain.

So what we ended up doing, was we ended up creating a dry swale here by curbing off where we raised up the pavement so that no one would accidentally would step into the swale. To make things more difficult, there's this significant drop in elevation between where these parking spaces are and where the accessible units are. Which created the need to have a accessible path of travel, go from the parking to the units.

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