The purpose of this chapter is to provide consistent, practical, and proven building and design requirement incorporating universal design and visitability standards that will make specified dwelling units visitable, more usable, and safer for occupancy and visitability by persons with disabilities or frailties. It is this jurisdiction's desire to enhance full life-cycle use of housing without regard to the physical abilities or disabilities of a home's occupants or guests in order to accommodate a wide range of individual preferences and functional abilities. In order to enhance the ability of homeowners or renters to remain in their homes during periods of temporary, developing, or permanent disabilities or frailties, the following design criterion shall be applied.
(Ord. 370 § 1 (part), 2006)