Segregated Townhouses / Integrated Townhouses

-- Photo by Concrete Change

The resident in the disability-designated unit (with the ramp and wheelchair sign) unfortunately can not visit dozens of neighbors, living in a row of townhouses built with a step up to each porch. Nor can residents in the neighboring units  enter or exit their own homes independently if they experience a temporary or permanent disability. A sidewalk parallel to the curb and low-cost grading, when the units were constructed, could have provided every home with a zero-step entry.

--Photo by Concrete Change

Fortunately, every home in this 87 unit development offers a zero-step entrance (and inside one finds ample door widths)

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