[blindlaw] parking discrimination?

Tue Aug 6 19:41:57 UTC 2013

I rent an apartment, and have a designated parking spot. I have been told that I can register a vehicle other than my own, since I don't own one. Haven't taken advantage of that solution yet.  I have also been assured they won't have a vehicle towed from my spot unless or until I make the effort to have it done myself. This causes some problems once in a great while when someone unauthorized takes my spot for a few hours and my daughter or friend wants to get in there.

Now, these are the facts, not the law. Seems to me, that the lease may have something to say about a designated parking spot as part of the rent, hence the lease would be controlling if in fact as part of her rent, she is guaranteed a designated parking spot.

Anybody else want to weigh in?

/s/

Bennett Prows

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Subject: [blindlaw] parking discrimination?

Client is leasing an apartment.  The only provision in the lease, regarding parking of vehicles, is in paragraph 21, as follows:

21.  PARKING. We may regulate the time, manner, and place of parking all  

cars, trucks, motorcycles, bicycles, boats, trailers, and recreational vehicles.  Motorcycles or motorized bikes may not be parked inside an apartment or on sidewalks, under stairwells, or in handicapped parking areas. We may have unauthorized or illegally parked vehicles towed or booted according to slate law at the owner or operator's expense at any time if it
(1)    has a flat tire or is otherwise inoperable (2)    is on jacks, blocks
or has wheel(s) missing (3)     takes up more than one parking space (4)
belongs to a resident or occupant who has surrendered or  

abandoned the apartment (5)    is in a handicap space without the legally
required handicap insignia  

is in a space marked for office visitors, managers, or staff  (7)     blocks
another vehicle from exiting  (8)    is in a fire lane or designated "no
parking' area  (9) is in a space marked far other resident(s)or or
apartment(s)  (10)   is on the grass, sidewalk, or patio  (11) blocks
garbage trucks from access to a dumpster, or  (12)   has no current license,
registration or inspection sticker, and we give  you at least 10 days notice that the vehicle will be towed if not removed.

Other residents have their own designated parking space and are issued windshield stickers for their car(s) to prevent them from being towed.

My client is blind and has no car.  Her parents usually transport her to get groceries, go to doctors, etc.  As such, they always have to park in visitor parking, which is not near her apartment.

She went to the manager and asked about getting a parking sticker for one of her parents' vehicles, or perhaps, to place on the face of her handicap placard.

She was denied on the basis that she does not own a car.  I do not understand why she cannot be issued a sticker for a designated vehicle, regardless of lack of ownership, if that vehicle is regularly transporting her.

I would appreciate any thoughts you guys, and gals, might have.

Daniel McBride, Attorney

Fort Worth  

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