ADA Parking Lot Compliance in Jacksonville, Oregon: 2026 Guide

ADA Parking Compliance in Jacksonville

Jacksonville is one of Oregon's most distinctive small towns — a Gold Rush-era settlement in Jackson County designated a National Historic Landmark, drawing summer crowds to the Britt Music Festival, the wineries of the Applegate Valley, and the boutiques and tasting rooms along California Street. That visitor traffic includes customers, employees, and guests with disabilities, and every commercial lot serving them carries the same federal ADA and Oregon accessibility obligations as a lot anywhere else in the state.

The historic character adds a wrinkle: Jacksonville lots are often older, smaller, and shoehorned into tight downtown footprints, which makes accessible layout harder and compliance easy to overlook. But the legal exposure is the same — federal civil penalties, private lawsuits with attorney fees, and Oregon state enforcement. This 2026 guide covers the essentials. For the full statewide picture, start with our ADA parking compliance guide for Oregon.

How Many Accessible Spaces Jacksonville Lots Need

The required accessible count scales with total parking under the 2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design:

Total Parking Spaces	Required Accessible Spaces	Van-Accessible Minimum
1–25	1	1
26–50	2	1
51–75	3	1
76–100	4	1
101–150	5	1
151–200	6	1

At least one of every six accessible stalls (rounded up) must be van-accessible. Most Jacksonville lots — a California Street tasting room, a small inn, a professional office — sit in the lower tiers and need one or two accessible stalls, with the first always van-accessible. The tight downtown footprints make the van-accessible stall the hardest to fit, since it needs an 8-foot aisle. Our how many accessible spaces your lot needs page covers the full table and rounding rules.

Stall and Aisle Dimensions

• Standard accessible stall: minimum 8 feet wide with a 5-foot access aisle.
• Van-accessible stall: 8 feet wide with an 8-foot access aisle, or 11 feet wide with a 5-foot aisle.
• Vertical clearance: 98 inches along the van route, at the stall, and through the aisle.
• Access aisle: diagonal hatching plus NO PARKING, level with the stall, connected to a continuous accessible route to the entrance.

On a tight Jacksonville lot, two accessible stalls sharing one aisle between them is often the most space-efficient layout. The aisle must never be parked in or blocked.

The 2% Slope Rule

Accessible stalls and their aisles must not exceed 2 percent slope in any direction on the finished surface. Jacksonville sits against the foothills of the Siskiyous, and many older lots were carved into sloping terrain, so slope non-compliance is a real risk here. A stall that looks flat may measure 3 or 4 percent — a violation. Verifying slope takes a level, and where it fails, regrading and repaving the affected area is the fix. This is one of the most overlooked requirements.

Signage Requirements

Each accessible stall needs a vertical sign with the International Symbol of Accessibility, mounted at least 60 inches from the ground to the bottom of the sign and visible when a vehicle is parked. Van stalls add a "Van Accessible" plate. Oregon requires a supplemental sign stating the fine for unauthorized parking — an Oregon-specific detail. Note that Jacksonville's historic district may also have local design or placement standards for signage; coordinate ADA sign mounting with any applicable historic-district guidelines. Our ADA parking sign placement guide details heights, plates, and the fine sign.

Surface and Maintenance

Compliance extends to ongoing surface condition. The accessible stall, aisle, and route must stay firm, stable, and slip-resistant, with no abrupt level changes over a quarter inch, no cracks wider than half an inch, no potholes, and no ponding water. The Rogue Valley's hot, dry summers and cold winters create freeze-thaw and UV stress that crack and fade pavement over time. Prioritize accessible areas in seasonal maintenance and address trip hazards promptly.

When Repaving Triggers Upgrades

Routine maintenance — sealcoating, crack filling, patching, restriping existing markings — does not trigger ADA upgrades. A full repave, significant reconstruction, lot expansion, or regrading counts as an "alteration," obligating you to make the path of travel accessible and spend up to 20 percent of the project cost on accessibility where the existing route is not compliant. On an older Jacksonville lot, a repave is often the practical opportunity to fix accessibility that was never quite right.

Getting Jacksonville Lots Compliant

The efficient path is an audit followed by remediation: the audit measures every accessible element and produces a fix list, and remediation handles the restriping, signs, and grading. Our ADA compliance audit process page explains the walkthrough. For local striping pricing and seasonal timing, see our parking lot striping in Jacksonville guide.