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

Restriping a Scappoose Lot to ADA Layout

Scappoose runs along Highway 30 in Columbia County, a growing commuter town with retail strips, light industrial and warehouse properties, and the businesses serving a bedroom community bound for Portland and St. Helens. Those lots take a beating — wet lower-Columbia winters, heavy truck and fleet traffic, and high storefront turnover all wear striping down fast. And when the parking lines fade, the accessible spaces fade with them. A restripe is the moment a Scappoose lot either drifts out of compliance or gets brought fully up to code.

A restripe 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 Scappoose owners through an ADA-correct restripe. For the broader rules, start with our ADA parking compliance guide for Oregon.

How Many Accessible Stalls Your Scappoose 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 24-stall storefront needs one space, and it must be van-accessible. A 90-stall warehouse or retail lot needs four accessible spaces, at least one van. Employee parking at industrial sites counts toward the total just like customer parking.

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

Van-accessible layout deserves extra attention at Scappoose's industrial and fleet lots, where larger adapted vehicles and side-deploying lifts need that wider 8-foot aisle.

The Access Aisle

The access aisle is where a wheelchair lift or ramp deploys and is the most-skipped element on small-town and industrial restripes. 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 — especially at busy lots where staging and deliveries tend to creep into open pavement. 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. These markings fade under wet winters, summer UV, and heavy traffic, and should be inspected 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

Scappoose has plenty of older asphalt — strip-mall pads and warehouse lots 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

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

Weather, Timing, and Durability

Scappoose sits in the wet lower-Columbia climate, where damp winters and freeze-thaw cycles shorten paint life, and truck traffic accelerates wear at industrial lots. 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.

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.