The Advocate - Condo complex nixes handicapped parking

If we'd had this story a week or so ago, it would have made a perfect "Scrooge lives" headline.

STAMFORD -- An East Side condominium complex has decided to remove all of its handicapped parking, leaving elderly and disabled residents to compete with the able-bodied for the best spots in the lot...While the state building code requires all new construction to have a specific number of handicapped spaces that corresponds with the size of the lot, Gretchen Knauff with the state Office of Protection and Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities said it does not apply in this case. Heywood Heights was built in 1970 -- seven years before the building code was enacted.
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