Aging in place in Marana

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Permits, utilities and local rules for Aging in Place work in Marana

Marana is an incorporated town, so a bathroom rebuild, a widened doorway or a ramp here is permitted by the Town of Marana's Development Services department rather than by Pima County - and the town also runs its own water utility, Marana Water, which supplies and bills the water and sewer account. Tucson Water serves some addresses inside the town limits as well, so the provider is worth confirming by address rather than assumed from the town line; Marana Water's own service-area maps answer it in a minute. The housing is the most varied on this list. The older houses around the original townsite and the farm roads near the Santa Cruz River are 1950s to 1970s single-storey block homes with one small bath and a tub combination behind a narrow door. The newer subdivisions along Tangerine Road, Twin Peaks Road and the Dove Mountain area are 1990s and 2000s stucco housing with 30 to 36 inch doors, a garden tub plus a separate shower, and a step down to a covered patio. The town's active-adult communities are where a large share of the accessibility requests come from, and in those plans the doors are already wide and the work is the shower, the grab bars and the floor rather than the doorway.

Municipal reference: Marana Water - Town of Marana

Getting an accessibility contractor out to Marana

Marana is reached on I-10, which runs straight through the town with interchanges at Cortaro Farms Road, Tangerine Road, Twin Peaks Road and Avra Valley Road; Sandario Road, Silverbell Road and Avra Valley Road carry the north-south and east-west traffic between the interstate and the farm country west of it. Because the interstate and its frontage roads bracket the town, a crew can come in from either side, and the drive from central Tucson is short and flat. In the newer subdivisions the streets are wide and the driveways are long, so staging a dumpster and a material delivery is rarely the constraint - the opposite of the older blocks near the townsite, where the streets were laid out for farm traffic and one trailer fills the shoulder. Two local notes come up on nearly every job. A good share of Marana is on septic rather than a sewer line, which the contractor needs to know before a slab is opened or a drain is moved, and the town's water and sewer service-area maps are the quickest way to settle which utility and which permit counter apply.

What Marana's housing stock means for aging in place

Marana's accessibility picture depends on which decade the house comes from. The older single-storey block houses are the harder ones for the smallest sum of money: one hall bathroom at five by eight feet, a tub and shower curtain, a 28 to 30 inch door, tile floors, and a step down to a covered patio or a carport. In those plans the doorway usually has to be widened in the same project as the shower, because a curbless entry into a bathroom a walker cannot get into solves nothing. The newer stucco houses were built with wider doors, often 36 inches, a separate shower and a garden tub, so there the money usually goes into the shower floor, the grab-bar blocking and a non-slip treatment rather than into framing. In the active-adult and manufactured-home communities the floor height above grade is the first fact to establish, because it decides whether the door needs a ramp or a landing and how long that ramp has to run under the 1:12 rule. Whichever decade it is, the ground is the same: caliche under a thin layer of soil and expansive clay that swells when the monsoon soaks it, with settlement showing up as doors that stick and floors that are no longer level.

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