Wantage must spend thousands to make walkway ADA-compliant
WANTAGE. The pitch of the current walkway is too high and does not meet federal requirements.
Wantage /
| 28 Jun 2022 | 10:21
Wantage Municipal Building.
The Wantage Township Committee on June 23 introduced an ordinance to spend up to $40,000 to make its front walkway of the Municipal Building compliant with the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA).
The township’s outside ramp needs to be in a zig zag pattern to make it ADA compliant. The current pitch is too high and is non-compliant.
“Apparently we’ve been warned of this for multiple years,” Mayor Ron Bassani said. “We just kind of ignored it.”
The township applied for a state grant for the project but did not win it. The committee also passed a resolution earlier in the meeting to award a bid of about $30,000 to do the project.
There will be a public hearing on the ordinance at the July 14 meeting.
