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

Restriping a Dallas, Oregon Lot to ADA Layout

Dallas is the Polk County seat, a Willamette Valley town just west of Salem with a historic courthouse square, a walkable downtown grid, and a growing residential base. Its storefronts, civic and county lots, churches, and clinics see steady year-round use, and the valley's wet winters fade striping on a predictable cycle. When the parking lines go, the accessible spaces go with them. A restripe is the moment a Dallas lot either drifts out of compliance or gets brought fully up to code. (This guide covers Dallas, Oregon in Polk County — not Dallas, Texas.)

Restriping is far more than refreshing paint. It is the cheapest opportunity you will ever have to correct an accessible layout that was wrong from the start, because laying out a compliant stall costs almost the same as laying out a non-compliant one. This guide walks Dallas owners through an ADA-correct restripe. For the broader rules, start with our ADA parking compliance guide for Oregon.

How Many Accessible Stalls Your Dallas Lot Needs

Accessible count follows total stall count at roughly one per 25.

Total Spaces	Required Accessible	Van-Accessible Minimum
1–25	1	1
26–50	2	1
51–75	3	1
76–100	4	1

At least one in every six accessible spaces, rounded up, must be van-accessible. A 22-stall downtown lot needs one space, and it must be van-accessible. A 90-stall church, clinic, or civic lot needs four accessible spaces, at least one van. Medical and outpatient facilities carry higher ratios, and civic lots around the courthouse also carry Title II duties beyond the striping.

The Striping Spec: What Gets Painted

An ADA-correct restripe paints to exact dimensions, not by eye.

Stall Dimensions

• Standard accessible stall: minimum 8 feet wide with a 5-foot access aisle
• Van-accessible stall: minimum 8 feet wide with an 8-foot aisle, or 11 feet wide with a 5-foot aisle
• Slope: the finished stall and aisle cannot exceed 2 percent in any direction

Parts of Dallas sit on gently rising ground, so check slope before painting — a stall on a settled grade can fail the 2 percent rule regardless of how clean the lines are.

The Access Aisle

The access aisle is where a wheelchair lift or ramp deploys and is the most-skipped element on restripes — and the easiest to shortchange on tight downtown lots. It needs diagonal hatching, must sit flush with the stall, and must connect to an accessible route to the door. Two stalls can share one aisle. Painting "NO PARKING" in the aisle is strongly recommended. Hatch spacing and shared-aisle rules are detailed in our ADA access aisle striping spec.

The Symbol and Markings

Each accessible stall gets the International Symbol of Accessibility, typically white on a blue field, plus blue stall borders as common Oregon practice. Wet valley winters and summer UV fade these markings, so inspect them annually.

Signage Goes Up With the Paint

Pavement paint alone is not enough. Each accessible space needs a wheelchair-symbol sign mounted at least 60 inches above grade to the bottom of the sign, plus a "Van Accessible" plate on van stalls and Oregon's supplemental fine-amount sign. A correct restripe coordinates new paint with compliant signage so the whole stall meets code at once. The 2026 details are in our Oregon ADA striping requirements for 2026 guide.

Why Restriping Is the Right Time to Fix Compliance

Dallas has plenty of older downtown asphalt striped before current van ratios and aisle widths were standard. When that paint fades to a full restripe, the lot is effectively blank, making it the cheapest moment to:

• Widen an accessible stall that was always too narrow
• Add a missing van-accessible aisle
• Move stalls onto the shortest accessible route to the entrance
• Bring the aisle up to correct width and hatch pattern, even on a tight lot

Repainting the old layout exactly just re-locks any existing violations for another cycle. Fixing them during a restripe costs little more.

Valley Weather, Timing, and Durability

Dallas sits in the wet Willamette Valley, where damp winters and freeze-thaw cycles shorten paint life. Water-based traffic paint typically holds 12 to 24 months before accessible markings start to wash out. The striping window runs late spring through early fall, when temperatures stay above 50°F and the pavement is dry. Booking in spring for early-summer work gets you ahead of the seasonal rush and ensures proper curing — paint applied to cold or damp asphalt fails early.

What a Compliant Restripe Costs

Striping costs are industry baseline ranges, and real projects often run higher with prep and signage. As a reference, a complete ADA-compliant accessible stall — including the hatched access aisle, the symbol stencil, and proper signage — has been baselined around $200 to $350 per space. Surface condition and signage drive the final number. Only a site visit gives an accurate figure. See our professional striping services for what a Cojo restripe includes.