Bathroom Access in Common Area

Our community includes an area with a clubhouse, pool, tennis, and playground. These amenities are used year round (not just during the pool season). The clubhouse bathrooms are accessed from the exterior of the clubhouse so that people who use the tennis courts, park, and pool can access them.

The main road through the community is also the only entrance to a county park. However, the HOA amenities are restricted to homeowner/resident use only. Several families with special needs children own homes in the community.

Is there any requirement to keep the clubhouse bathrooms open all year? ADA compliance? Fair Housing Act? Something else? Is winterizing the bathrooms reasonable?

Thanks for any guidance/advice you can provide.

We had our bathrooms attached to the clubhouse. You could enter from the pool area or inside the clubhouse. The winter time when pool was not in use, we would lock the gate to the pool area. You could still use them from the clubhouse. We closed the outside access because that area wasn't being used/accessed. I did unlock it only for those days lawn care came so they could use the bathroom.

Don't see anything wrong with keeping the bathrooms open or closed. The choice is up to your HOA. There is no ADA requirement for the bathrooms in a HOA that I know of. Your not a public use facility. It's private.

There's pro's and con's for keeping open and or closed. I just recommend putting up smoke detectors. We had an issue with kids going to go smoke in them. Sometimes they'd set the paper products on fire. We put those in above the towels. Scared them out.