Channel 4 News of Nashville was at the Legislative Plaza Wednesday to investigate complaints about inaccessbile facilities. As noted in the latest Coalition Quarterly, the Legislative Plaza underwent extensive renovations in the past few years, yet many areas remain inaccessible such as committee meeting rooms, restrooms and Braille that is [...]
15 Mar 2007 MTH 0 comments
The units are currently inaccessible for people with disabilities. The case was filed by Memphis Area Legal Services, on behalf of MCIL. The U.S. Department of Justice later intervened in the case on behalf of the United States.
MCIL and MALS are hopeful this case will encourage the local code enforcement office to take a harder [...]
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The Knoxville City Council will meet Tuesday, December 19th at 7pm in the City County Building on Main Street. On the agenda will be a discussion about a resolution seeking to improve accessibility of housing in Knox County. It’s hoped that concepts of Visitability might eventually find their way into the Knoxville housing [...]
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