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Mayor's Office on Disability
In 2000 and 2001, the City and County of San Francisco conducted a survey of more than 700 facilities to assess physical access barriers in city-owned buildings and facilities. This survey has been the basis for the City’s ADA Transition Plan, and has been incorporated into the recent effort to provide more systematic and coherent approaches to access upgrades.
Each year, the Mayor’s Office on Disability (MOD) works with the Mayor’s Disability Council (MDC), and other individuals with disabilities, to review and establish priorities to remove architectural barriers in City facilities. These efforts have always worked to leverage planned capital improvements and resources from bond measures. Most recently, the City’s creation of a 10 Year Capital Plan has provided the opportunity to coordinate access efforts with a long-term plan for capital improvements and facility replacements.
With the leadership of MOD’s Deputy Director, John Paul Scott, the City’s ADA Transition Plan has now been expanded to the Uniform Physical Access Strategy & ADA Transition Plan (UPhAS). This plan goes beyond the minimum required improvements under Title II of the ADA, seeking consistent accessibility in all City-owned buildings and facilities, and reserving a “program access” approach for only one or two departments. (A “program access” approach allows a public entity to make only a portion of its facilities accessible, and to distribute its programs so that there is overall geographic access to programs that are duplicated in various locations.)
The UPhAS plan, in addition to addressing physical accessibility in areas of public use and public services, seeks to address accessibility in employee areas, thereby providing increased opportunity for employment and reasonable accommodation of individuals with disabilities. The plan is coupled with other efforts by MOD and other City agencies to provide increased quantities of accessible housing, quality assurance programs in public construction, and pedestrian accessibility and safety initiatives.
Both the ADA Transition Plan and the UPhAs plan are dynamic processes that require yearly assessments of accomplishments and priorities for future projects.
The following web site links provide the public with information about this plan, as required by Title II of the ADA.
Goals and Objectives
Priorities and Leveraging Opportunities
Overview of Title II ADA Requirements for buildings and facilities
The new ADA/ABA
Project Schedules
Project Lists by Departments or Agencies
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