Aging in place in Rita Ranch

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Permits, utilities and local rules for Aging in Place work in Rita Ranch

Rita Ranch is unincorporated, so a curbless shower conversion, a widened doorway or a ramp here is a Pima County Development Services permit. Water is usually Tucson Water, which serves the southeast side of the metro as well as the city, and Vail Water Company serves some addresses in the same postcode - which is exactly the split that makes confirming the account by address worth doing rather than assuming from the neighbourhood name. The housing is consistent by decade, and that makes it predictable to price. The tract subdivisions built through the 1980s and 1990s are single storey, block or stucco on a slab, with interior doors of 30 to 32 inches, a hall bath or a master bath with a garden tub plus a separate shower, tile floors and a covered patio a step below the living area. Because the doors are usually already wider than in the 1960s stock, the work in Rita Ranch is more often the shower - taking out the tub, forming a low-threshold or curbless entry, adding grab-bar blocking and treating the floor - than a doorway widening.

Municipal reference: Tucson Water - Vail Water Company serves some addresses

Getting an accessibility contractor out to Rita Ranch

Rita Ranch is reached on Houghton Road, Rita Road, Valencia Road and Mary Ann Cleveland Way, with I-10 at the Rita Road interchange just to the west, so a crew can come in off the interstate without crossing the city. Old Vail Road runs along the southern edge and connects the neighbourhood to the Vail valley. The internal streets are newer and generously laid out and the addresses sit close together, so this is an efficient area to work once a crew is in it - and an easy one to pair with a Vail or a southeast Tucson job on the same day. The constraints are modest but real. Houghton Road and Valencia Road carry the commuter traffic for the whole southeast side, so the time of day decides how long the drive takes more than the distance does, and from May through September the newer subdivisions have little mature shade over the front walks, which is the season when an unshaded exterior step matters most.

What Rita Ranch's housing stock means for aging in place

Rita Ranch is 1980s and 1990s tract housing built to a consistent set of plans, which makes the accessibility work predictable. The houses are single storey on a slab, block or stucco, with two to four bedrooms, interior doors of 30 to 32 inches, tile in the wet rooms and often throughout, and a covered patio one step below the living area behind a sliding door whose track is itself a low trip point at the threshold. The master bath in most plans has a garden tub plus a separate shower, and it is the garden tub that goes first - a 14 inch apron in a corner is the hardest thing in the house to get over. Grab-bar blocking in a house of this vintage is a coin toss: some plans have real framing in the right places and some have none, so the contractor's answer is to open the wall and confirm rather than to assume. The ground is the same caliche and expansive clay as the rest of the southeast side, which moves with the monsoon; the visible signs are hairline cracks in the tile and doors that have started to stick.

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