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

Restriping a Sweet Home Lot to ADA Standards

A restripe is the cleanest chance a property owner gets to bring a parking lot into ADA compliance. When the old lines have faded out, the lot is effectively a blank slate — and that is the moment to confirm your accessible spaces actually meet the 2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design and Oregon's ORS 447.233, instead of simply repainting an old and possibly non-compliant layout.

Sweet Home sits in the Cascade foothills, where dry summers fade paint and wet, sometimes icy winters work the surface beneath it. Lots along Main Street and the Highway 20 corridor wear markings on a predictable seasonal cycle, and the sloped terrain of many foothill lots adds drainage stress. Each restripe is therefore a recurring opportunity to get the accessible layout right rather than just refreshing the old lines.

This guide covers what a compliant restripe involves. For the statewide framework, start with our ADA parking compliance guide for Oregon.

What a Compliant Restripe Includes

Bringing a lot up to code through striping comes down to four things: count, dimensions, aisle marking, and signage.

Accessible Count

The 2010 Standards require a minimum number of accessible spaces based on total capacity — about one per 25 at smaller sizes (1 for 1 to 25 total, 2 for 26 to 50, 3 for 51 to 75, 4 for 76 to 100), rising from there. A restripe is the right time to recount, because older Sweet Home lots were often striped before current ratios applied and come up short.

Van-Accessible Spaces

At least one in every six accessible spaces, rounded up, must be van-accessible. Even a small lot with a single accessible space needs that space to be van-accessible. Van spaces need an 8-foot space with an 8-foot aisle, or an 11-foot space with a 5-foot aisle.

Stall and Aisle Dimensions

Standard accessible spaces are at least 8 feet wide with an adjacent 5-foot access aisle. The full layout must be measured and chalked before paint. Our 2026 ADA striping requirements guide details each dimension.

Access Aisle Marking

Each aisle must be striped, usually with diagonal hatching and "NO PARKING" lettering, and may be shared between two adjacent accessible spaces. The full specification is in our ADA access aisle striping spec.

Paint Choice and Timing in the Foothills

In Sweet Home, both the paint and the timing affect how long your compliant layout stays compliant. Summer sun fades standard water-based latex paint, and because faded accessible symbols and aisle markings can themselves be cited, durability directly protects compliance. For the accessible portions specifically — the blue space borders, the International Symbol of Accessibility, and the aisle hatching — more durable oil-based traffic paint or thermoplastic is worth the higher up-front cost, holding color far longer. Reflective glass beads improve visibility on dark, wet winter nights.

Timing favors the foothills' dry summer. Striping needs dry pavement above 50°F, and Sweet Home's reliably dry, warm summer gives a window from late spring through early fall. The trade-off is the long, heavy-rainfall winter, so schedule accessible restriping for the summer window before the wet season returns.

The Blank-Slate Advantage

A restripe temporarily clears the layout, which is the right moment to fix problems that are expensive to correct on a fully striped lot:

• Add accessible spaces to meet the current ratio for your lot size
• Widen undersized access aisles to the 5-foot or 8-foot minimum
• Relocate accessible spaces onto the shortest accessible route to the entrance
• Re-stencil faded symbols with correctly proportioned accessibility symbols
• Confirm slope stays at or under 2 percent in every direction on spaces and aisles

Slope is the one item paint cannot fix, and it is the issue most worth checking on Sweet Home's foothill lots. If an accessible space has settled or sits on too steep a grade, regrading is required, and a professional layout flags it before paint goes down.

Signage Completes the Job

Striping and signage go together. Each accessible space needs a sign with the International Symbol of Accessibility mounted at least 60 inches above grade to the bottom of the sign, a "Van Accessible" plate where required, and Oregon's fine-amount plate. A restripe that refreshes ground markings but leaves signs faded, too low, or missing the Oregon fine plate is only half compliant.

Get Your Sweet Home ADA Restripe Quote

The accessible portion of your lot carries the most liability, so it is the part most worth getting right. Cojo Excavation & Asphalt restripes Sweet Home and Linn County lots to current ADA layout standards — measuring, verifying counts and dimensions, and applying durable paint.

These standards are general guidance; a site-specific review confirms your exact obligations and is something we recommend before any restripe. See our professional striping services, compare local pricing in our parking lot striping in Sweet Home guide, or request a free quote — we respond within 24 hours.