PD BACKGROUND & RECOMMENDATION REPORT (PL-CCI-2022-000001)

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r OF+r, DISABILITY AND COMMUNICATION ACCESS BOARD 1010 Richards Street,Room 118,Honolulu,HI 96813 V:(808)586-8121 Fax:(808)586-8129 INTERPRETIVE OPINION Pursuant to §103-50, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), all public buildings, facilities and sites constructed by, or on behalf of the State or any county, shall conform to the 2004 Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines (2004 ADAAG) and amendments. In accordance to HRS §103-50 and Chapter 11-216, Hawaii Administrative Rules, the Disability and Communication Access Board has authority to issue interpretive opinions to HRS §103-50 design standards. Docket: DCAB 2012-01 Are electric vehicle (EV) charging stations required to be accessible? If they are required to be accessible,what are the scoping and technical requirements for `Accessible EV Charging Stations'? Amend: The width of the EV Charging stall is required to be 16 feet. The width of the stall can accommodate two vehicles, in order to deter more than one car parked in the EV stall, can an access aisle be striped within the extents of the 16 foot wide stall? If so,what configurations are allowed? Summar w: While the ADAAG does not contain any specific reference to EV charging stations, the overall premise of the ADAAG is that new and altered buildings, facilities and sites must be accessible and usable by persons with disabilities. In addition, under Title II of the ADA, state and local governments have a "program access" obligation to not discriminate on the basis of a disability. When state and county entities provide EV charging stations, they are offering a program, service or activity and therefore, the program, service or activity is required under the ADA to be accessible to persons with disabilities. Based on the broad nondiscrimination requirement of the ADA, EV charging stations must be accessible to and usable by a person with a disability. These EV charging stations however, must not displace or replace any accessible parking stalls required be ADAAG 208.1. Where there is not a specific scoping for an element, the Department of Justice requires a reasonable number, 5%, not less than one of each type, to be accessible. The stall size should be consistent with the ADAAG requirement for accessible parking stalls since the size of EV vehicles are the same as non-EV vehicles. ADAAG requires an accessible parking stall to be 96 inches wide minimum and each stall is required to be served by an access aisle that is 60 inches wide minimum. The size of an EV stall must also be wide enough to provide an accessible route around the vehicle. The minimum width of an accessible route is 36 inches. Given the size of the vehicle stall, access aisle and accessible route, the minimum size of an EV parking stall would be 192 inches (16 feet), similar to the space required for an accessible van. It is recommended that an access aisle not be marked given that the charging inlet location varies from vehicle to vehicle. These inlet locations can be located on either side or in some cases on the front or rear of a vehicle. By not striping the access aisle and providing a"large stall" that consists of the stall and access aisle combined, allows a vehicle to pull up and park to either side of the parking space to best accommodate the location of the charging inlet on the vehicle. Planning Depi. Exhibit _5