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1. Rocker light switches and controls installed pursuant to either of the following: a. In all rooms required to be accessible and on the accessible route. b. Throughout the balance of the residential dwelling unit. 2. On an accessible route in an interior room or hallway, interior doors or openings for rooms and routes of travel required to be accessible consistent with CBC Chapter 11A. EXCEPTIONS: A thirty-four inch (34") clear doorway width may be requested from a hallway with a thirty-nine inch (39") width, and a thirty-six inch (36") clear doorway width may be requested from a hallway with a thirty-six inch (36") width. 3. The width of the level area on the side toward which an accessible door swings consistent with CBC Chapter 11A. 4. If the Building Official or owner/purchaser determines that the accessible route and doorway width options prescribed by Chapter 11A are not feasible and that a less wide accessible route is necessary, a functional alternative to ensure that all entries into rooms required to be accessible may be approved by the Building Official or purchaser/owner if it meets at least one of the following requirements and if the hallway is not less than thirty-six (36") inches in width: a. The entry door to the room must be at the end of a hallway or passageway, or open directly from another room on an accessible route of travel, so that no turn of ninety degrees (90') or more is necessary to enter the room. b. The hallway wall opposite the room must be inset enough to allow an area of at least eight inches (8") wide with at least a sixty-inch (60") run centered on the center of the entry door opening [e.g., an 8" by 60" notch or alcove.] c. The hallway wall on the same side as the room must be inset enough to allow an area of at least eight inches (8") wide with at least a sixty-inch (60") run centered on the center of the entry door opening [e.g., an 8" by 60" notch or alcove.] d. The hallway wall directly opposite the room door must open to another room with at least a sixty-inch (60") opening on a level with the accessible passageway or hallway. NOTE: Doors or openings to the rooms required to be accessible may be wider and the notch or alcove smaller if equivalent access is not impeded. In addition, for a doorway at the end of a hallway or in other circumstances, the notch or alcove need not be centered on the doorway if equivalent access is not impeded. 5. Hand-activated door hardware complying with CBC Chapter 11A. Page 9 of 11