Status updates

[ysobel]

The good: I can has roommates \o/ fannish writery rommates, to boot; how cool is that?

The bad: I am petrified that I am going to fuck something up and have them abruptly decide to move out. (Why no, I am not at all scarred from the last roommate encounter, why do you ask?)

The good: we seem to be out of the drought.

The bad: ...by which I mean, it's raining. Again. *glares at the weather*

The good: I can stay inside for a lot of today

The bad: ...until I get to go explain why having a ramp in the front at the main entrance to the building is not superfluous just because there's a ramp at the back/side of said building. (Ramps, donchaknow, are not historical enough.)

The good: Did I mention the roommate thing?

Comments

[sara]

...until I get to go explain why having a ramp in the front at the main entrance to the building is not superfluous just because there's a ramp at the back/side of said building. (Ramps, donchaknow, are not historical enough.)


If it would be helpful to have a professional opinion from someone with architectural history credentials, pointing out that there's actually nothing in the Secretary of the Interior's Standards and Guidelines that prevents people from making their historic buildings accessible, do please let me know. I've been having an irritating morning and I would be happy to channel my pissyness into some just cause. *GRIN*

[helens78]

Roommate! Whee! :D

[princessofgeeks]

yay for roommate win! :D

[jmtorres]

yay roommates! (how ARE you fitting two in there?)

[ysobel]

ooh. *gleefully unleashes you on the committee*

(Though I honestly don't know how much of it is "omg must preserve historicalness", and how much is just "why change something that works well enough". There are people on the [historical resources preservation] commission that are quite seriously taking the stance that a ramp off the front is not *necessary* by ADA standards, and therefore shouldn't be added, never mind that people who are actually *impacted by* the lack of accessibility actually know how much of a fucking pain, often literally, it is to go around back, which also involves a fairly narrow hallway and a door that I can only just barely squeeze through. Gnargh.)

[ysobel]

(Um, they are very squishy I guess?)

[sara]

*cough* I sit on a historic resources commission and have been a consultant in this field for more than a decade.

Do please pm me with details. Indeed, I've been plotting a post for the professionalstuff blog on the subject of adapting historic buildings for accessibility and why historic preservationists should be allies rather than opponents in this department (an accessible building is a USED building, and a used building is a SAVED building, and a saved building is a lower embodied energy cost building is a GREEN building, is the upshot).