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this year when it said it will require many such facilities to install fixed, permanent lifts to comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act.
• After initially setting a March 15 deadline -- and telling the industry it wouldn't budge -- the department has granted two extensions. After first saying it might grant a reprieve until September, Justice announced last week that pool owners won't have to comply with the new requirements until early next year, a move that gets the controversy safely past the election.
• At issue is whether hotels and other facilities will have to install fixed, permanent lifts to assist disabled people getting in and out of their pools, a move that requires hiring a contractor and tearing up the pool deck at a cost of as much as $6,000.
• Many pool owners were hoping to comply with the rules by purchasing less costly portable lifts that could be wheeled out to poolside as needed. Hotel owners who already have lifts say few of their customers ever ask for them.
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• PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- A local sports hero, a New York real estate developer and a well-known architect are teaming up to build a soccer stadium in Haiti's notorious Cite Soleil, hoping to revive the seaside shantytown known throughout the hemisphere for its extreme poverty and gang battles.
• Foreign investors in Haiti have largely directed their efforts at rebuilding from a devastating 2010 earthquake, focusing their funds on Port-au-Prince and the overlapping cities that make up the capital and the country's sleepy coastlines.
• But ex-Haiti soccer star Robert "Boby" Duval, the mastermind of the $5 million project, developer Delos LLC and architect Carlos Zapata are looking elsewhere -- at a city of tin shacks and open sewage canals shunned by investors, avoided by diplomats and at one point so dangerous that U.N. peacekeepers would only enter it in armored vehicles.
• The sponsors say they hope the stadium project will tackle problems that predate the 2010 disaster.
• "Cite Soleil was destroyed way before the earthquake," said Duval. "This stadium is going to clean up Cite Soleil. It's going to bring conscience, and I'm betting on it."
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