Aging in place in Bradenton

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Permits, utilities and local rules for Aging in Place work in Bradenton

Bradenton is a city, so a bathroom rebuild or a ramp at a City of Bradenton address is permitted by the city, and water comes from the City of Bradenton Public Works and Utilities department, which draws on the Bill Evers Reservoir and an aquifer storage and recovery well to supplement supply. That is the first thing to establish on a project here, because much of what people call Bradenton is unincorporated Manatee County: those addresses are permitted by Manatee County and served by Manatee County Utilities, which provides potable water, wastewater, reclaimed water and solid waste in unincorporated Manatee County. Two other local facts matter. The city and the county both sit on the Manatee River, so riverfront and canal-front streets have their own elevation and drainage questions. And a large share of the older housing here is manufactured or mobile homes on rented lots in the over-55 communities, where the floor sits above grade on a chassis rather than on a slab, so the exterior step is higher and any ramp runs longer than it would at a ground-level house.

Municipal reference: City of Bradenton Public Works & Utilities

Getting an accessibility contractor out to Bradenton

Bradenton is a short run north from Sarasota, and it is the Manatee County half of the same corridor. US-41 and US-301 both run through the city, US-41 following the river and US-301 running inland through Palmetto and south, and the Green Bridge carries traffic across the Manatee River between Palmetto and downtown Bradenton. Manatee Avenue and Cortez Road are the east-west routes that matter day to day, SR-70 runs east toward Lakewood Ranch from the city, and I-75 forms the eastern edge with the interchanges at US-301 and SR-64. To the north, the Sunshine Skyway carries I-275 over the mouth of Tampa Bay toward St. Petersburg. Everything on the maps is flat and mostly on a grid, so the drive is rarely the constraint - the constraint is what is on the lot. The older riverfront and downtown streets were laid out for single cars, and a dumpster, a material delivery and a work truck at the same address can be one vehicle too many, which is worth mentioning when a contractor asks about staging. From January through April the US-41 and US-301 corridors and the shopping traffic around them add noticeable time to any appointment.

What Bradenton's housing stock means for aging in place

The accessibility picture in Bradenton depends entirely on which decade the house comes from. The mid-century and 1980s single-storey block houses in the older parts of the city and in the unincorporated neighbourhoods around it are the harder ones for the smallest sum of money: one hall bathroom at five by eight feet, a tub and shower curtain, a 28 to 30 inch door, tile or terrazzo floors throughout, and a single step down to a screened lanai or up from the carport. In those plans the doorway usually has to be widened in the same project as the shower, because a curbless entry into a bathroom a walker cannot get into solves nothing. The newer houses were built with wider doors, often 36 inches, a separate shower and a garden tub, and impact glass; there the money usually goes into the shower floor, the grab-bar blocking and a non-slip treatment rather than into framing. In the manufactured-home and RV communities, floor height above grade is the first fact to establish, because it decides whether the door gets a ramp or a landing and whether a threshold can be lowered at all.

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