ADA Adaptable / ADA Accesible Renovation Question

If there is no way to make it compliant then you do not have to do it

PZ, For the bathroom, keep the fixtures and walls where they are. Essentially you are re-tiling etc. This surely does not require any ADA compliance as per my experience.

Agree with merger - as long as you don't change the position of the fixtures you don't have to make it ADA compliant.
The rules can be very stupid - I relocated a closet door from a hallway into my bedroom. The new closet door had to be 36" ADA compliant even though the existing bedroom door is 30", not ADA!!!

Sorry - Mercer

Make sure the bathroom door in that 6th floor walk-up studio is 36 wide - because they can make it up 5 flights of stairs but can't squeeze through a 30" doorway.......

PZ, we did a renovation where we moved the plumbing around. We had to have 30" inches of space for the shower and the toilet, despite the fact that the original (non-moved doorway) was only 28" wide. As has been mentioned, and as I understand it, if you don't move any of the plumbing placement or the doorway, you are fine.

PZ, If you are moving the fixture by an 1 inch or 2, the architect can show the new plan as existing as no one actually measures before or after.

We were told that unless bathroom fixtures are being replaced in the same rough-in, we had to comply with all ADA requirements for bathrooms OR use one of the NYC bathroom prototypes from the link below:
https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/buildings/rules/1_RCNY_1101-01.pdf