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Resident urges ramp at Barnes Street Activity Center; council asks staff to review
Summary
A Florence resident asked the City Council to add a handicap ramp directly from the front doors of the Barnes Street Activity Center to nearby accessible parking. Council members, including newly seated Councilman Zach McKay, said staff will inspect the site and report back.
Susan Brown, a Florence resident, asked the Florence City Council at its meeting to install a new handicap ramp directly from the front entrance of the Barnes Street Activity Center to the designated accessible parking spaces.
Brown said the building currently “meets ADA requirements” but that the existing ramp is located some distance from the entrance and requires users who rely on walkers or canes to travel a longer route, cross a curb and re‑enter the building. “It becomes more than just an inconvenience. It becomes a risk,” she said, describing her sister Kathy’s limited mobility and dozens of falls over the past…
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