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STATE OF MICHIGAN
COURT OF APPEALS


RICHARD BIGGS, individually and as Personal Representative of the ESTATE OF JAMES WESLEY RIPPLE, deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v CITY OF JACKSON, Defendant-Appellee.

UNPUBLISHED August 9, 1996

No. 181678 LC No. 94-068301-NZ

Before: Markey, P.J., and McDonald and M.J. Talbot,* JJ. PER CURIAM. Plaintiff appeals as of right from the trial court's order granting defendant's motion for summary disposition. We reverse. Plaintiff sought to have a parking spot in front of his home designated as a handicap parking location because his house had no driveway and he had difficulty walking any distance because of illness from HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus).1 Defendant refused this accommodation, despite plaintiff's offer to pay for the signage on the public street. Instead, it recommended designating a bus stop in front of the house so the handicap bus could transport plaintiff or that plaintiff could pay to have the curb cut down and a small driveway installed on plaintiff's existing front lawn. Plaintiff's complaint against defendant alleged violations of

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