As so many community associations have encountered first-hand, the Florida and Federal Fair Housing Acts (FHA) require condominium and homeowners associations to grant exceptions (or a waiver) to pet restrictions in order to allow a person with a disability to keep an animal which alleviates one or more symptoms of that disability, but would otherwise be prohibited by its pet restrictions. Rules that an association may need to waive under these laws include breed restrictions, weight restrictions, limitations on the number or types of animals that may be kept or even outright prohibitions on animals in the community all-together.   Read the article…………………………