In order to make specific housing available to an individual with a disability, any person may request a modification or exception to the rules, standards and practices for the siting, development and use of housing or housing-related facilities that would eliminate regulatory barriers and provide a person with a disability equal opportunity to housing of their choice. Typical improvements which may be considered for reasonable accommodation provisions include ramps, walls, handrails, elevators or lifts, or other similar physical improvements necessary to accommodate a person’s disability. The reasonable accommodation would allow exceptions to setback, lot coverage and floor area provisions of the zoning code that are deemed necessary to accommodate these improvements.
A person with a disability is a person who has a physical or mental impairment that limits or substantially limits one or more major life activities, anyone who is regarded as having such impairment, or anyone who has a record of such impairment. This chapter applies only to those persons who are defined as disabled under the Acts.
(Ord. 5230 § 8, 2014)