There's a car-free neighborhood in my city and it's been there for at least 25 years. It was not originally designed as such; they simply made a huge section of downtown pedestrian only by putting blockers on the street.

Yeah. Left such a bad taste in my mouth so quickly that it was all I could do to make myself take-back my down-vote for the sake of how much I hate car-centric living.

Where in the article does it say it's the first car-free neighborhood ever? It just says it's the first in America, it even has a nod to how European cities tend to be built around walking in contrast to American cities.

The community did this innovative thing called installing shade and keeping roadways narrow. It heavily reduces the urban heat island effect.

They also did this brand new thing called putting stores within a 5 minute walk of housing which reduces resident's heat exposure.

Better get into a solar oven that also produces waste heat so you can avoid wearing a hat.

Speak up when you have ways to encourage more of it, instead of discourage it.

Wouldn't that kind of be part of the point? If walkable communities can work in Arizona of all places, there's no excuse (short of "I literally can't open my front door due to all the snow on the other side of it") for the rest of the country.

Seeing as how it has been around for 5 years now it seems to me that we have seen how it goes.

Though that doesn't stop some people from running to the comments section to type the first thing that pops into their head.

Arguably college campuses can be car free neighborhoods. The one I went to had dedicated “family” living arrangements, such as for a student with child, perhaps spouse or parent

Reads like sarcasm, hopefully I'm reading it correctly.

No need. Developers are very profit driven so are unlikely to pay for more parking spaces than necessary

Which is a lot, but you also don’t need any of the expense of owning a car. Not a dollar of it.

It’s also brand-new and there are only 288 units, plus it’s acting as a proof of concept as much as a housing solution. The prices reflect a supply and demand issue but hopefully this will lead to more and more of this kind of development.

Honestly, as someone who doesn’t even believe studio apartments should really be allowed at all, it’s not that bad when you actually think a little.