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Today's lesson in ADA Compliance: 36.403 ALTERATIONS: PATH OF TRAVEL.

"The obligation to provide an accessible path of travel may not be evaded by performing a series of small alterations to the area served by a single path of travel if those alterations could have been performed as a single undertaking."

The path of travel in this case is from the "Accessible" Public Housing Facility at Audubon and Orange that is currently 3/4 Ghettoized, to at least the corner of Orange and Trumbull (an argument can be made that it extends to the Chiropractor's Office on Orange, north of Bradley if a resident is also a patient of that health-care facility).

Leaving the tree stump, slate slabs and ADA violations just beyond this repair would leave that facility 3/4 Ghettoized. The necessary alterations that would remediate this violation of Federal law can be performed in a single undertaking and therefore must be performed in a single undertaking.