I would move to Quarry Village. In a heart beat. In fact, I would pledge to buy one of the units.
That is because it is actually a hopefully soon-to-be community in California of all places that will be created so residents can live happily without cars! It is genius. This article outlines how the East Bay (San Francisco Area) neighborhood will work – residents would have a few restaurants, grocers, etc. within walking distance and a shuttle bus to the closest BART stop – which would be less than a mile away, so totally walkable. And residents who want to own cars still would enter an auction to rent a parking spot for a monthly fee that subsidizes the shuttle bus for everyone else. Those parking spots would only be around the perimeter of the neighborhood – no other parking would be available in Quarry Village.
Sounds ideal to me – although I have happily lived without a car for 4 years now in cities where people claim a car is pretty necessary … so maybe the planned community is unnecessary in the East Bay. However – if Quarry Village is created in Los Angeles, that shuttle would have to be a city bus. So I get why the idea works best up there.
In any case, I hope the new idea of suburbia takes hold – I want to buy my first home before I buy my next new car.
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