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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

UPDATE: Dearborn to Add Disability Access to Neighborhood Pools in 2013

The Americans with Disabilities Act requires that all new, refinished or government-owned pools be compliant with ADA standards.

Starting the summer of 2013, Dearborn’s neighborhood pools will have an added feature: battery-powered pool lifts that make them compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. “These are required in order to open the pools next summer,” Mayor Jack O’Reilly explained at a recent meeting with City Council. The purchase and installation of the lifts for the city’s six currently operating neighborhood pools—Summer-Stephens, Lapeer, Crowley, Ford Woods, Dunworth and Ten Eyck—and the pool at Camp Dearborn was approved Tuesday by council. The cost for the project is $70,914. A breakdown of the costs was provided by the city: The ADA requirements were approved in 2010 by the U.S. Department of Justice. “People with disabilities were, for too …

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Summer-Stephens Park, Lapeer Park, Crowley Park, and 3 more ›

Silvio Davis

5:39 pm on Thursday, December 6, 2012

The pools were put into the 2013 budget and the $120,000 for removal of pools was removed in a budget hearing over the summer of 2012.   more ›

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

City Council Approves Snow Emergency, Public Service Day Parking Ordinance Change

Dearborn residents can now be ticketed for parking over the sidewalk during a snow emergency or on their public service day.

Two ordinance changes to help the city of Dearborn comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act were approved at Tuesday night's City Council meeting. The amendments will affect the city's ordinances on parking restrictions and public service days, and requires that residents not park in such a way that their car blocks the sidewalk on public service days, or during snow emergencies. The reasoning is that blockage of the sidewalk makes safe passage difficult or impossible for some residents with disabilities. Both changes were adopted unanimously by the council. "In order for city of dearborn to comply with ADA act, we need to change our ordinance on public service and snow emergency days," Council President Tom Tafelski said. "The city…

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Rules to Remember for Snow Removal

Lee Jacobsen

1:08 am on Sunday, January 22, 2012

Tommy... don't worry.... Officials are in the process of fixing the improper setbacks. The setbacks will stay the same. However, the cars will eventually all be like 'Smart' cars and be very small, the setbacks and your one car garage will be able to hold at least two cars. Thank your govt for the regulations forcing this to happen. You wanted to drive a smaller car anyway...right?   more ›

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