AURORA | Aurora has completed the first phase of the Americans with Disabilities Act self-evaluation and Transition Plan, which was approved by the city council at the beginning of September, to move forward.

“The ADA is very, very focused on having a plan,” Karlyn Shorb, Aurora’s ADA Title II coordinator, said to city council Aug. 25. “I think we’ll be really in a good place, because we’ll have a plan moving forward.”

The transition plan comes from the federal ADA law amendment, passed in 1991, which requires cities and states to remove barriers to accessibility in public facilities, sidewalks, parks, programs and digital spaces, Shorb said.

Compliance is guided by the ADA, and also by the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Federal Fair Housing Act a

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