602 a modern car-free neighborhood

So this shouldn't be that shocking, but it is: "the first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in America."

Now everything is "built from scratch" at one point, so if there's another car-free neighborhood in America (here's looking at you Macinack Island), not sure how well this claim would hold up. But who cares? 

Sure it may be a clever ploy on the part of the developers to avoid putting in parking and jam more units into a site, but I don't think so. It looks like they're actually going for car-free.

On purpose. So they baked a whole bunch of alternatives into their offering. This is something I've been thinking about. The small town we live in is ripe for infill with a bunch of tiny homes (or singlewides, park models or destination trailers) but they're against zoning (issue number one) and all of the car parking would be ugly (issue number two.)

Lately I've been wondering if you could say offer no parking, no private cars allowed, but a shared car among a few units, paid for by the HOA. 

We have a lot of retirees who don't really drive that much. Cars are expensive, and take up a lot of room. But you also kind of need one sometimes.

Tempe is a college town, another demographic that's car-lite, usually because they're broke or the university has no parking for students.

Could it be done? Culdesac thinks so. Zoning might not let it. (There are usually minimum parking requirements baked in.) But you sure can fit a lot of people into a few acres if you get rid of our two-ton wheelchairs.

So you might be asking, what separates a "neighborhood" from an "apartment complex?"

Answer: A restaurant, common spaces, and a couple shops. Plus some marketing.