The rules and regulations of the American Disabilities Act should be administered in good faith and with better regards to what is reasonable. Once we build a car wash, which had 20 employees estimated during the planning phases, I think that there were eventually 35 people as we grew the business.

The planning commission demanded 3.5 (4 since you have to round up) handicap stalls, as a condition of passing the request to build it. At our car was there was only one position that could take a physically challenged person. The Cashier, obviously since we have to put in handicap parking we needed to make sure that we did hire such a person to utilize the parking stalls. But to get approval we had to put in four. Thus we could not build a "Detail Center" due to space (which generates $225 K per quarter). Thus could not hire more people, pay more taxes, give more support to the community etc.

The planning commission should have split the difference with us for 2-stalls not demanded the 4 stalls. Who wins when they do things like this? Not the physically challenged, there was not enough of them in the whole city for all the businesses to hire. The customers when they get a car wash come thru the car wash lane and the physically challenged customers can unload themselves in lane one, when they get a car wash with one inch per one foot contoured access.

Any laws or rules should be the best for all concerned. Often we do not need the rules at all. If a business disses the physically challenged that means another business, which caters to them is the benefactor and that is really free-enterprise. Instead we need to teach little to respect all humans and to do the right thing. At our car wash businesses we want to do the right thing, but not be drug thru the mud of bureaucracy telling us what to do, when we plan on doing our best to do the right thing in the first place, along with making money. Consider this in 2006.

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