Dear Owners,
There has been a settlement of the lawsuit United States v. Albert C. Kobayashi, Inc.
That lawsuit involved whether certain condominium complexes, including Wailea Fairway Villas, were designed and constructed to be accessible to people with disabilities.
The federal Fair Housing Act requires that single-story, ground-floor units in multifamily properties constructed after March 13, 1991, have certain accessible features for persons with disabilities. The Fair Housing Act also requires that routes and public and common use areas in these properties have certain accessible features. The United States alleges that the interiors of single-story, ground floor units, routes, and public and common use areas at Wailea Fairway Villas do not comply with the Fair Housing Act.
Please click on the link below which contains detailed information and we recommend that you read the entire Consent Order. We would however like to draw your attention to page 89 which pertains to Public and Common Use Retrofits and page 99 which pertains to Unit retrofits for ground floor 2 Bedroom units only, for our property.
Kindly note that Public and Common Use Retrofits are mandatory and Unit retrofits for ground floor 2 Bedroom units are optional and will be the choice of each individual owner to opt in or not.
Please see page 11, item #15 and page 12, item #19 which pertains to the cooperation of the Association with respect to the retrofits.
Owners of ground floor 2 Bedroom units will be contacted directly by the defendants and the Association will not be involved with those interactions.
Once we have been contacted by the defendants with respect to the Public and Common Use Retrofits, we will communicate with you and do our utmost to keep you apprised as we move through the process of the retrofits being carried out.
Sincerely,
Wailea Fairway Villas Board of Directors