ABA Accessibility Standard for GSA Facilities Pocket Guide
EXCEPTIONS: 1. Where an alteration includes alterations to an entrance, and the building or facility has another entrance complying with 404 that is on an accessible route, the altered entrance shall not be required to comply with F206.4 unless required by F202.4.
2. Where exceptions for alterations to qualified historic buildings or facilities are permitted by F202.5, no more than one public entrance shall be required to comply with F206.4. Where no public entrance can comply with F206.4 under criteria established in F202.5 Exception, then either an unlocked entrance not used by the public shall comply with F206.4; or a locked entrance complying with F206.4 with a notification system or remote monitoring shall be provided.
ETA Editor’s Note
Section 1.3.7 (Accessible Public Entrances) of the Facilities Standards for the Public Buildings Service PBS—P100 (March 2014) establishes this additional requirement (see http://www.gsa.gov/portal/mediaId/187607/fileName/P100_Version_2014.action).
All public entrances provided in accordance with Paragraph F206.4.1 (Public Entrances) of the ABAAS must have at least one entrance door complying with Section 404.3 (Automatic and Power-Assisted Doors and Gates) of the ABAAS. Where an accessible public entrance has a vestibule with exterior and interior entrance doors, at least one exterior door and one interior door shall comply with Section 404.3.
Where direct access is provided for pedestrians from a parking structure to a building or facility entrance, each direct access to the building or facility entrance shall comply with 404. [ECTCR UFAS 4.1.2(8)]
Where direct access is provided for pedestrians from a pedestrian tunnel or elevated walkway to a building or facility, at least one direct entrance to the building or facility from each tunnel or walkway shall comply with 404.
In transportation facilities, where different entrances serve different transportation fixed routes or groups of fixed routes, at least one public entrance serving each fixed route or group of fixed routes shall comply with 404. [ECTCR UFAS 4.1.2(8)]
Direct connections to other facilities shall provide an accessible route complying with 404 from the point of connection to boarding platforms and all transportation system elements required to be accessible. Any elements provided to facilitate future direct connections shall be on an accessible route connecting boarding platforms and all transportation system elements required to be accessible.
At least one accessible entrance to each tenancy in a facility shall comply with 404.
EXCEPTION: Self-service storage facilities not required to comply with F225.3 shall not be required to be on an accessible route.
In residential dwelling units, at least one primary entrance shall comply with 404. The primary entrance to a residential dwelling unit shall not be to a bedroom.
Where restricted entrances are provided to a building or facility, at least one restricted entrance to the building or facility shall comply with 404.
If a service entrance is the only entrance to a building or to a tenancy in a facility, that entrance shall comply with 404.