(FORTUNE Magazine) – How long can it take New York City to install five streetside public toilet kiosks a coalition of . . . groups effusively praises as an inexpensive solution to an acute toilet shortage? Maybe forever . . . For the plan to work, two laws may have to be changed . . . The issue most likely to doom the plan is access for the handicapped. Anne Emerman, director of the Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities, called the toilet kiosks ''fantastic,'' but passionately insisted that under city law, each and every unit must be large enough for a wheelchair. But if all the kiosks are that large, the city's Art Commission is unlikely to approve their placement on the streets because they would be cumbersome and unattractive, said Deputy Mayor Barbara J. Fife . . . She said the question is this: ''How do you implement a good public policy without undermining basic laws that were hard won?'' -- From a news report in the New York Times.