These regulations are complete nonsense and create an unreasonable burden on pool owners. There should be a minimum occupancy rate of handicapped guests/memebers inlcuding the average number of nights they stay to warrant having to have a lift. The lift should be tax deductible and pool owners should be held harmless for any injuries caused by or associated with the lifts. This equipment is an attractive nuisance and inherently dangerous to others walking or swimming near it. It will cost more for liability insurance, operator training, and maintenance. Sometimes, it’s simply cost-prohibitive to require everything in the world handicapped accessible. It’s a noble theory, but impractical. Since the handicapped are the only ones who us it, they should be surcharged for it. Or, let the government subsidize the pool owners when they don’t break even on surcharges.
Unfortunately, this will also bring about a torrential amount of lawsuits as the ADA did years ago. Lawyers will hire disabled folks to go to facilities that don’t have the lifts and then complain, and etc, etc, etc. Not good.
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These regulations are complete nonsense and create an unreasonable burden on pool owners. There should be a minimum occupancy rate of handicapped guests/memebers inlcuding the average number of nights they stay to warrant having to have a lift. The lift should be tax deductible and pool owners should be held harmless for any injuries caused by or associated with the lifts. This equipment is an attractive nuisance and inherently dangerous to others walking or swimming near it. It will cost more for liability insurance, operator training, and maintenance. Sometimes, it’s simply cost-prohibitive to require everything in the world handicapped accessible. It’s a noble theory, but impractical. Since the handicapped are the only ones who us it, they should be surcharged for it. Or, let the government subsidize the pool owners when they don’t break even on surcharges.
Unfortunately, this will also bring about a torrential amount of lawsuits as the ADA did years ago. Lawyers will hire disabled folks to go to facilities that don’t have the lifts and then complain, and etc, etc, etc. Not good.