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Nantucket commissioners document multiple inaccessible town sites, plan meetings with land bank and state disability office
Summary
Commissioners reviewed recent site visits that found noncompliant surfaces and missing accessible routes at several land-bank and municipal sites and plan follow-ups with the land bank and the Mass. Office on Disability about grant funding and corrected surfacing.
Commissioner Brenda reported to the Nantucket Commission on Disability on Jan. 31 that she and Commissioner Mickey Rowland inspected several town and land bank sites where walking surfaces, parking and paths are not accessible for people using wheelchairs or mobility devices.
"They were asking about them. And no way is grama accessible. No way is any kind of a pebble or stone accessible," Brenda said, describing paths that the land bank had treated with low-grade molds and pebbles rather than firm, stable surfaces.
Brenda said the inspections covered at least five locations: the leased courts on Hinsdale Road (land bank property), the Nista property on Walwyneth Road where a parking area and intended path are overgrown or composed of…
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