ADA Parking Striping in Boardman, Oregon: Bringing Your Lot Up to Code

Striping a Boardman Lot to Code

Repainting a Boardman parking lot and striping it to ADA code are different jobs. A Highway 730 retail lot, an employer campus, or a Main Street storefront might get fresh lines every few years that simply trace the old layout — old mistakes included. If the previous accessible stall had a too-narrow aisle or a faded symbol, repainting the same lines just renews the violation in brighter paint.

This guide is about the right version: laying out accessible stalls, aisles, and markings that meet the 2010 ADA Standards and Oregon's overlay. Keep our ADA parking compliance guide for Oregon handy for the legal framework.

Get the Dimensions Right First

Dimensions get chalked out before any paint goes down.

• Standard accessible stall: minimum 8 feet wide
• Van-accessible stall: minimum 8 feet wide with an 8-foot access aisle, or 11 feet wide with a 5-foot aisle
• Standard access aisle: 5 feet wide
• Van clearance: 98 inches of vertical clearance along route, stall, and aisle

On a small Boardman lot, the single accessible space typically has to be van-accessible, because the one-in-six van ratio rounds up to one as soon as you have any accessible stall. On the large data-center and processing campuses, the flip side applies: you need several accessible stalls, at least one van per six, dispersed across building entrances rather than bunched at one door. Our 2026 ADA striping requirements page has the full dimension table.

The Access Aisle Carries the Markings

The access aisle beside each accessible stall does more striping work than the stall:

• Diagonal hatching across the full aisle in a high-contrast color
• "NO PARKING" lettering inside the aisle
• A border tying the aisle to the stall at the same surface level
• A connection to the accessible route to the entrance

Adjacent accessible stalls can share one aisle, the space-efficient layout for a compact Boardman lot. The hatching tells drivers, delivery trucks on the industrial lots, and the wheelchair user who needs the room that the aisle is not a parking spot. See our ADA access aisle striping spec for hatch spacing and lettering.

Symbols, Paint, and Plateau Visibility

The International Symbol of Accessibility goes in each accessible stall, white on a blue field, big enough to read from a moving vehicle. Many Boardman owners also paint the stall border blue, common Oregon practice. Legibility is the priority: the strong eastern-Oregon sun bleaches paint and wind-driven grit scours the surface, so markings fade in their own way out here. A faded symbol can be treated as a compliance gap, so reflective beads and an annual repaint schedule are cheap protection — useful for shift workers and I-84 travelers arriving after dark.

The Sign — Including Oregon's Fine Plate

Striping is half the job. Each accessible stall needs a vertical sign with the accessibility symbol, mounted with the bottom at least 60 inches above the pavement so it stays visible past a parked vehicle. Van stalls add a "Van Accessible" plate. And in Oregon, the sign must also show the fine amount under ORS 447.233. Boardman's high winds can loosen sign posts over time, so check mounting and condition when you restripe — a perfect stripe job with an old or non-compliant sign still fails.

Refresh or Re-Lay?

If your Boardman lot was laid out correctly, ADA restriping is mostly refreshing the symbol, hatching, borders, and sign. If the original layout was wrong — narrow aisles, no van dimensions, stalls far from the door, or all accessible stalls clustered at one entrance on a big campus — then "restriping" really means re-laying that section: measuring, chalking new lines, and painting fresh. Re-laying costs more but is the only real fix for a bad layout. A fresh sealcoat is the ideal moment, since you are painting onto a clean, dark surface with no old lines fighting the new.

A Clean Boardman Striping Sequence

1. Confirm required accessible and van counts for your total spaces
2. Locate accessible stalls on the shortest accessible route to each entrance
3. Chalk stall and aisle dimensions and verify slope stays under 2 percent
4. Paint stall borders, aisle hatching, and "NO PARKING" lettering
5. Stencil the accessibility symbol in each stall
6. Mount or update signs at 60 inches with the Oregon fine plate

Run in that order, a Boardman restripe produces a layout that survives inspection. Cojo Excavation & Asphalt stripes accessible parking to current code across Boardman and Morrow County. For standard restripe pricing and scheduling, see our parking lot striping in Boardman guide, or explore our professional striping services.