Table 5.2 Boating Facilities Alternatives

Item:  Gangways - Maximum Slope    
Proposed Guidelines:  Exception permits gangways to exceed 1:12 maximum slope based on distance between
design high point and level of water, and square footage of fixed and floating piers.     
Final Guidelines:  Exception permits gangways to exceed 1:12 maximum slope where total length of gangways
serving as part of accessible route is at least 80 feet.  Small facilities with fewer than 25 boat slips are permitted to
exceed 1:12 maximum slope where total length of gangways serving as part of accessible route is at least 30 feet.

Item:  Gangways - Alterations 
Proposed Guidelines:  No exception.     
Final Guidelines:  Where existing gangways are replaced or altered, gangways are not required to be lengthened
unless triggered by alterations to primary function areas.

Item:  LULAs and Platform Lifts
Proposed Guidelines:  No exception.     
Final Guidelines:  Limited use/limited application elevators (LULAs) and platform lifts permitted in lieu of
gangways.

Item:  Boat Slips - Scoping   
Proposed Guidelines:  At least 3% of boat slips required to be accessible.      
Final Guidelines:  Number of boat slips required to be accessible ranges from at least 1 for facilities with 25 or fewer
boat slips to 12 for facilities with 901 to 1000 boat slips (plus 1 additional accessible boat slip for each 100 boat
slips over 1000).  

Item:  Accessible Boat Slips - Location 
Proposed Guidelines:  Accessible boat slips must be located nearest to amenities.    
Final Guidelines:  No requirement.

Item:  Accessible Boat Slips - Clearances    
Proposed Guidelines:  No exceptions.    
Final Guidelines:  Exception permits clear pier space to be reduced to 36 inches wide minimum for length of 24
inches maximum, provided that multiple 36 inch wide segments are separated by segments that are 60 inches
minimum clear in width and length.  Exception also permits edge protection 4 inches high maximum and 2 inches
deep maximum at continuous pier openings.

Item:  Accessible Boat Slips - Alterations   
Proposed Guidelines:  No exception.     
Final Guidelines:  Exception permits clear pier space to be located perpendicular to boat slip and extend width of
boat slip in alterations to existing facilities, where facility has at least one boat slip with required clear pier space
parallel to the boat slip and providing additional boat slips with required clear pier space parallel to the boat slip
would result in reducing number of boat slips available or reducing widths of existing boat slips.


Accessible Boat Slips - Cleats     
Proposed Guidelines:  No provision.     
Final Guidelines:  Cleats and other boat securement devices are not required to comply with height provisions for
controls and operating mechanisms.

Item:  Boat Launch Ramps 
Proposed Guidelines:  Where boarding piers are provided at boat launch ramps, at least one accessible boat slip
required adjacent to a boat launch ramp.     
Final Guidelines:  Where boarding piers are provided at boat launch ramps, at least 5% of boarding piers must be 60
inches wide minimum for entire length of boarding pier and be served by  accessible route.  Where accessible route
serving floating boarding pier or skid pier is located within boat launch ramp, portion of accessible route within boat
launch ramp not required to comply with ramp provisions.  Accessible routes serving floating boarding piers
permitted to use gangways exceptions for alterations, maximum rise, landings, handrail extensions, cross slope,
LULAs and platform lifts. Maximum 1:12 slope does not apply where total length of gangways serving as part of
accessible route is at least 30 feet.