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Any sales or rental establishment of the type that is included in paragraph (5) of the definition of place of public accommodation (for example, a bakery, grocery store, clothing store, or hardware
store) is considered a sales or rental establishment for purposes of this definition; the other types of public accommodations (e.g., restaurants, laundromats, banks, travel services, health spas) are not.
In the preamble to the proposed rule, the Department sought comment on whether the definition of shopping center or mall should be expanded to include any of these other types of public accommodations. The Department also sought comment on whether a series of buildings should fall within the definition only if they are physically connected. Most of those responding to the first question (overwhelmingly groups representing people with disabilities, or individual commenters)
urged that the definition encompass more places of public accommodation, such as restaurants, motion picture houses, laundromats, dry cleaners, and banks. They pointed out that often it is not known what types of establishments will be tenants in a new facility. In addition, they noted that malls are advertised as entities, that their appeal is in the package of services offered to the public, and that this package often includes the additional types of establishments mentioned.
Commenters representing business groups sought to exempt banks,
travel services, grocery stores, drug stores, and freestanding retail
stores from the elevator requirement. They based this request on the
desire to continue the practice in some locations of incorporating
mezzanines housing administrative offices, raised pharmacist areas, and
raised areas in the front of supermarkets that house safes and are used
by managers to oversee operations of check-out aisles and other
functions. Many of these concerns are adequately addressed by ADAAG.
(Code of Federal Regulations. Title 28, Volume 1. TITLE 28--JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION. CHAPTER
I--DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. PART 36_NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF DISABILITY BY PUBLIC
ACCOMMODATIONS AND IN COMMERCIAL FACILITIES CITE: 28CFR36
)