In 1989, Eleanor Smith, a resident of Atlanta, GA and an advocate on issues of disability, along with Mary Johnson, an editor of Disability Rag, came up with the name “Concrete Change” and then in 1990 learned of and adopted the term “Visitability”. In 1992 the Atlanta City Council adopted a Visitability ordinance “to provide that new single-family, duplexes and triplexes which are constructed with public funds, . . . with design features to provide accessibility and usability for physically disabled people.” In these articles, I outline the evolution of the idea of a visitability ordinance and include a statement in support of amending the visitability ordinance in city of St. Petersburg.
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