From Concrete Change founder Eleanor Smith:

Spring, 2006 -- Bill and Collette Altaffer, advocates who shepherded the Pima County, Arizona, visitability ordinance into law, state that the county government recently reported the 2003 ordinance has already produced more than 11,000 Visitable homes. During that time, fewer than 100 homes needed to be exempted from the zero step entrance because of site conditions or other considerations--less than one per cent. (The ordinance is officially titled the "Inclusive Home Design Ordinance". As in most other Visitability ordinances, the interior requirements must be constructed even if the entrance requirement is exempt.)

At 11,000-plus, it's likely that Pima County holds the U.S. record for the most Visitable homes in any one area. The Pima County ordinance was contested in court by the Home Builders Association, but advocates and their lawyers fought back succesfully against "the big guns." The Arizona Supreme Court rejected claims that the ordinance should be overturned, and affimed the need for inclusive home architecture. Thus, the only legal challenge in the U.S. (as far as we are aware) to a law mandating basic access in private, single-family homes has been turned aside, establishing valuable case law if further challenges should occur.

See article Tucson Inclusive Home Design Wins In Court

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