Thanks to the efforts of the Minnesota Disability Law Center (MDLC), and a possible lawsuit, the Saint Paul city council voted last month to bring curb ramps up to federal ADA standards. Approximately 230 ramps need to be retrofitted, having been passed over when the city embarked on a major street repair project beginning in 2013.

Steven Schmidt, staff attorney with MDLC, said clients became concerned when they noticed that as the work progressed on the St. Paul streets, “the city was not doing any work to the curb ramps.” Read the full Pioneer Press article.