Thinking of modifying your driveway to eliminate the half curb bump and make a smooth transition to your driveway.  Well, the City of Golden Planning changed the standard.  Any driveway entrance that includes the sidewalk must now be ADA compliant.  

This change now doubles the cost in most instances and generally creates a driveway about 4 to 8″ below your existing driveway for about the first 12′.  

City requires the slope of the sidewalk width, the 36 part, to be no more than 2 degree slope.  However, the slope of the sidewalk length is whatever your street is.  Makes no sense what so ever.  So be sure and watch out for those speeding out of control wheelchairs going down our 5, 10 & 15 degree streets.  But they’ll be in control for the 3′ width of the sidewalk.  City Planning and Congress I guess thought everything was flat.