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Originally Posted by phoenixwillrise
First sorry my computer doesn't have the correct symbol for degrees but that's the closest I could come up with. Looks like you got the point!
I would concede that if you could not afford a car or were a college student who was young and single it might work but sorry not in the average real world with say a family doing the tasks required to exist in a city at 120 DEGREES with heat reflecting off the sidewalk at much greater DEGREES. Tell a person who has worked in the heat all day, say a contractor, roofer, landscaper etc. that you think it would be a great idea for them to participate in this eco friendly experiment of no car. You will laughed out of their presence and they will tell where to take your sad, tired cliche.
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I would never recommend that a contractor, roofer, or landscaper live in an apartment community with little or no parking, but not because of concerns about occupational heat exposure. In fact, I find that people who work in the heat every day are less likely to complain about it than white collar types who work in air-conditioned offices. The reason I would not recommend one of these apartments to anyone in those occupations is that those types of work often require the use of personal vehicles to reach far-flung job sites and to haul supplies and equipment.
As so many people here have said, these apartments aren't for everyone. In fact, I'd say they're a niche product at this point. That's okay, though. In a metropolitan area of five million people, there's a critical mass for many different types of niche products. You've admitted that you could see some populations valuing this type of apartment, and I even know some families who might embrace it. Acknowleding that diversity of preferences in no way takes away parking from the much larger population that values it. All it does is create more options for different types of consumers.
If these projects have trouble leasing their apartments, then more like them won't be built. The market will correct itself. I doubt that outcome, however. There are a wide variety of preferences here, and for too long, we've used arbitrary regulations to try to force one set of suburban standards on everyone without regard for individual priorities or adverse consequences. Forcing everyone to live a suburban, car-dependent lifestyle is every bit as bad as forcing everyone to live in crowded urban apartments. Let's avoid either extreme by allowing a market-based approach to parking and retiring hackneyed arguments about heat.
By the way, I usually just type the word "degree," but if you want to create the symbol with your keyboard, here's how to do it:
https://www.degreesymbol.net/