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Parking Providers Manual

1. Have a plan to keep grocery carts or lumber carts out of the access aisles. Make sure some one checks at least once an hour and removes errant carts. If this becomes a persistent problem try educating the customers with signs where they pick up the carts.

2. Don't get in the habit of using the access aisles as loading zones.

3. Don't put dumpsters, special sale items, or any other obstructions in the access aisles.

4. Keep mud and other debris out of curb ramps and the accessible routes from parking to the building entrance. Wheel chairs can't wipe their feet and will track the mud into your facility. Also, manual wheel chair users drive their chair with their hands very close to the tires and will get the mud on their fingers.

5. While not enforceable, consider putting "Van Only" signs on your van accessible disabled parking spots.

6. Ticketing and Hand Bills on disabled vans. If the van has an obvious wheel chair lift on the passengers side consider the fact that the wheel chair driver may not be able to reach the wiper blade on the windshield to retrieve the ticket or other papers. You can usually identify the wheel chair lift by the aluminum colored folded up platform through the passenger side windows or a lowered van side and control switches in the right rear quarter panel or tail light.

7. This is just a start.