ADA Parking Compliance Audit in Woodburn, Oregon: What to Expect

Why a Woodburn Property Owner Orders an ADA Audit

Most Woodburn property owners do not think about ADA parking until something forces the issue — a demand letter, a complaint, a new tenant build-out, or a planned repave. An ADA compliance audit gets ahead of all of it. It is a structured inspection of your parking lot against the 2010 ADA Standards and Oregon requirements, producing a clear list of what passes, what fails, and what the fix involves.

This page walks through what to expect when you have a Woodburn lot audited. For the legal background behind each checkpoint, our ADA parking lot compliance guide for Oregon is the starting point, and our ADA compliance audit process page covers the inspection in depth.

This is general guidance. An audit gives you a property-specific picture a guide cannot.

What the Audit Measures

A thorough Woodburn audit checks every requirement an enforcement officer or plaintiff's expert would examine:

• Space count: Does the number of accessible spaces match your total? The ratio is one per 25 through the first 100.
• Van-accessible ratio: At least one in every six accessible spaces must be van-accessible.
• Dimensions: Accessible spaces at least 8 feet wide; access aisles 5 feet for standard, 8 feet for van.
• Slope: No more than 2 percent across spaces and aisles in any direction.
• Signage: Symbol signs at 60 inches minimum, van plates, and the Oregon fine sign.
• Surface: No potholes, no cracks over one-half inch, no abrupt level changes, no standing water in accessible areas.
• Accessible route: A continuous, compliant path from accessible spaces to the entrance.

Our common ADA parking violations checklist lists the failures we find most often, and most of them surface in the audit.

The Woodburn Wrinkles

A few things make Woodburn lots more likely to fail certain checkpoints.

High-traffic wear. Woodburn's outlet, grocery, and restaurant lots see heavy volume. The painted symbol and aisle hatching — the markings that matter most for compliance — wear first, so faded-marking failures are common here.

Freeze-thaw surface damage. Marion County's wet winters and overnight freezes open cracks and lift pavement edges. By spring, an accessible space that passed in fall can have a trip hazard at the aisle line. The audit documents these with photos and locations.

Large-lot drainage and slope. Big Woodburn lots are generally flatter, but settlement near drainage inlets and at lot edges creates localized grade problems that only a level reading catches.

How the Audit Runs

A typical Woodburn audit is a single on-site visit. The inspector measures and photographs each accessible space, aisle, sign, and the route to the entrance, then compiles findings into a report:

1. Walk and measure — counts, widths, slopes, sign heights, surface condition.
2. Photo documentation — every finding tied to a location.
3. Findings report — each item marked pass or fail against the standard.
4. Remediation plan — fixes grouped as striping, signage, or grading and surface.

The output is something you can hand to a contractor for a scoped quote, or keep on file as evidence of good-faith compliance effort.

From Audit to Fix

The value of the audit is the plan it produces. Most Woodburn findings fall into three buckets. Striping fixes — wrong layout, undersized aisles, faded symbols — are handled by restriping; see our parking lot striping in Woodburn page. Signage fixes mean installing or raising signs and adding the Oregon fine plate. Surface and slope fixes — potholes, wide cracks, over-2-percent grades — may need patching or regrading first.

Bundling these into one mobilization saves money, and a repave is the ideal time to correct everything at once since the alteration already triggers the path-of-travel obligation.