State sues Collier condo association, alleges discrimination against disabled

By AISLING SWIFT — Naples Daily News  — Posted April 15, 2013 at 6:15 a.m.
EAST NAPLES — Pickup trucks parked in driveways are a no-no in many gated communities in Naples. But when the truck belongs to a paralyzed man and it’s rigged with a wheelchair lift, making it too high and wide to fit in a garage, it falls under higher laws than condo association rules. Instead of branding it a violation, it should have been considered a “reasonable accommodation” for 36-year-old Jason Cain, who lived in Madison Park in East Naples. Yet the condo association warned: “Make the vehicle fit or remove it from the property.”

Those are the allegations in a lawsuit filed by the state Attorney General’s Office, which has sued the Quincy Square at Madison Park Condominium Association and its former president, John Flynn, in Collier circuit court. Unable to work out an agreement, Cain and his parents, Alice and Robert, his caregivers, moved to Sarasota. “I was really confused and really didn’t understand why I would have complaints against me and seven or eight other truck owners didn’t,” Jason Cain said this past week as he sat in his wheelchair in his former Clemson Street neighborhood. “Then it dawned on me. Either (Flynn) thought I was a liability or just didn’t want someone in a wheelchair there.” Read more:  http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2013/apr/15/state-sues-east-condo-association-discrimination/

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