ADA Transition Plan

Draft ADA Transition Plan
The next step in the City’s efforts to improve access for people with disabilities is now available for review below. The Draft ADA Transition Plan is open for public comment through Nov. 30.
The draft plan was informed by a public online survey and public workshops in February and March 2020. The plan addresses inventoried accessibility barriers in building facilities, parks and trails, the public right of way and City programs, services and activities.
- View the draft ADA Transition Plan
- View appendixes in the "Documents" section to the right
Tell us what you think!
Review the draft plan and appendixes, then give us your feedback in the "comment" tab below.
Deadline for public comment is Monday, November 30.
The ADA Transition Plan is intended to:
- identify physical and communicative barriers in the City of Olympia’s building facilities, parks and trails, public right-of-way, and programs, services, and activities that limit accessibility to individuals with disabilities;
- describe the methods to be used to make the facilities accessible;
- provide a schedule for making necessary modifications to provide better access and achieve compliance; and
- identify the public officials responsible for implementation of the plan.
Given the timeline already in play, the process seems to already be a bit behind. However, the necessary steps are outlined with clarity. Providing accessibility is not important to the conformance with ADA mandates, doing so meets universal design for public access for those individuals with certain disabilities not only those who are wheelchair-bound. Allowing freedom and access to public spaces is meant for ALL not only those who are bipedal ability. Moreover, such practical accessibility ensures individuals with other types of disabilities including sight, color-blindness, hearing, and perhaps mental impairments will retain access in accordance federal law. Granted Covid conditions have delayed to a degree progress in this endeavor, as such, the Draft and Final Transition Plan as outlines has not failed to capture needs of every citizen.