Referring to it as the “grandfather of disability ramps,” advocates are clamoring to get La Jolla\u2019s Children\u2019s Pool\u2019s access ramp now under construction brought up to current Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standards. The pro-access group Restoring Access to Many People (RAMP) has launched a drive to petition the California Coastal Commission (CCC) to restore safe access by disabled people to the beach at Children\u2019s Pool.
\n“This is the only ocean pool, not only in La Jolla but on the West Coast, that\u2019s been accessible for the disabled,” said RAMP spokesperson Cheri Jacobs Aspen. She added, “It\u2019s a cruel joke that they\u2019re constructing new ADA-accessible showers at the Children\u2019s Pool lifeguard tower \u2014 when there\u2019s no ramp to get the disabled down to the showers.”
\nJacobs Aspen said she began a petition drive May 8 in an attempt to get the CCC to direct that Children\u2019s Pool\u2019s new lifeguard tower, now under construction, have its ramp leading down to the beach upgraded to current ADA standards.
\nDisabled rights advocates say manmade Children\u2019s Pool had a serviceable disabled ramp as early as the 1940s, built to accommodate wheelchairs, walkers, the elderly and toddlers, until it fell into disrepair in recent times.
\nHerself disabled, Jacobs Aspen insists that making Children\u2019s Pool truly ADA-accessible once again would “put San Diego on the ADA map of the world.”
\nJacobs Aspen said she\u2019s gotten about 260 signatures counted toward her ultimate goal of 1,000. She intends to present her petition to create an ADA-accessible Children\u2019s Pool ramp to the Coastal Commission at its August meeting in San Diego.
\nChildren\u2019s Pool was created as a safe wading pool for children by La Jolla philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps in the 1930s. The pool is good for the disabled for many of the same reasons it\u2019s good for children, including its being sheltered from turbulent wave action.
\nJacobs Aspen noted the disabled community is an underserved minority with the same need as everyone else to access the pool. “We have 16,000 new limbless American Veterans, the most here in the military town of San Diego, that could heal in the waters of the Children’s Pool,” she said. “An ADA ramp fits well there and needs to be included in the current Children’s Pool beach facility remodel.
\n“We need this ADA access now, to serve the many disabled, including children, Wounded Warriors and the elderly. It is the only one we have, and it must stay open all year long with an ADA ramp.”<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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