2012 Florida Accessibility Code for Building Construction Pocket Guide
233.5 Apartments or Townhouse Facilities Provided By or on Behalf of A Place of Education. Apartments or townhouse facilities that are provided by or on behalf of a place of education, which are leased on a year-round basis exclusively to graduate students or faculty and do not contain any public use or common use areas available for educational programming shall comply with the requirements for residential facilities in sections 233 and 809.
Although not clear from the ADA-related documents, in addition to Transient Lodging requirements under the ADA the Fair Housing Amendments Act also applies to housing at places of education, including dormitory facilities. Timeshare units, condo hotels, and some types of corporate housing may also be covered by both. FHAA has dozens of stricter requirements than the ADA Standards for Transient Lodging facilities so dormitory facilities must be designed considering each of the stricter requirements of the ADA Standards and whichever standard is selected for safe harbor under the FHAA.
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