On Thu 02 Apr 2009 08:59:35a, Nancy Young told us...

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> On Thu 02 Apr 2009 05:09:39a, Nancy Young told us...
>
>>> Around here the handicapped spots seem to outnumber the people who
>>> want to use them.
>
>> That's definitely not the case here in this part of Arizona. It is
>> frequently very difficult to find an open disability space whereas
>> spaces for pregnant women are more often vacant. It's probably
>> because the area is more heavily populated by full time and part time
>> elderly residents than the average city. The same is probably true in
>> parts of Florida, as well.
>
> In a place like that, handicapped spots become rather useless.
> If 75% of your customers have a handicap tag and you designated
> that percentage of your spots, they aren't all going to be next to
> the door.
>
> nancy
>

That's true enough, Nancy, and we do have a higher proportion of
handicapped spaces, although they are distributed laterally across the
front of the store and there is usually seating provided all along the
front of the store which is easy to get to. This is at least better than
having the handicapped spaces run from the front to the back of the parking
lot with no place to rest along the way.

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Wayne Boatwright

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