AVELAR has opened its library of circa 1970-to-1990 California building and accessibility standards to share with all interested building and accessibility professionals. Many of the historical records to be released are cited in senior partner Lonnie Haughton’s paper chronicling the “History and Backstories of California’s ‘1985 State Building Code’”
In 1985, the State Building Standards Commission adopted a comprehensive new State Building Code that contained a broad set of public accessibility and privately funded housing adaptability regulations that preceded the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988.
AVELAR has previously released scanned copies of all three issuances (1981, 1984, and 1985) of the State Building Code and the Office of the State Architect’s 1984 and 1986 editions of its associated “Disabled Access Regulations Interpretative Manual”. We are now releasing the 1987 edition of OSA’s manual.
Our team will next release a copy of the seminal 1985 guide, “A New Horizon – Accessible and Adaptable Apartments” published by the Department of Housing and Community Development.
