Reasonable accommodations for parking. Adapted in part from http://www.sutteronestop.com/DPN/30second.htm

1. Hello!
This is your 30-Second
Inclusion Training
Parking
Brought to you by the
Office of Faith Based and
Community Initiatives (OFBCI). Click here to begin

2. An AmeriCorps member who has a disability needs
a parking space at her host site. The organization
has never had an accessible parking space before.
What accommodation would be reasonable?
Request that the member have someone else bring her to the site
or ride the bus since the organization cannot afford to repaint the
parking lot for her.
Provide a space labeled with her name so that she always has
her own parking space.
Designate spaces in the lot for accessible parking that provide
the shortest possible route to an accessible entrance.

3. Good Effort
BUT
Please Try Again
Asking a member to choose alternate
forms of transportation because of
their disability is both demeaning and
against the law. Any person who has
the ability to drive should be able to
also park in designated parking
spaces.

4. Come on…
You can do it!
While this is one solution, it is
not the correct one. A private
parking space does not promote
inclusion because it is actually
excluding the member by their
disability. Try again!

5. Great
Job!
You’re on the right track with this answer. The 2010 regulations of
the American’s with Disabilities Act (Section 208) designates that
for every 25 parking spaces in a lot, there needs to be 1 accessible
parking space labeled with the international sign for accessibility.
For every 6 accessible parking spaces there needs to be 1 van
accessible space appropriately labeled.
For more information contact:
Mariann Bernlohr
Training and Inclusion Manager
Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives
mbernlohr@ofbci.in.gov
317-234-5891