Where's Private property End?
APapaBear2021-PGO
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What is the definition of private residence?
And where does the game say it ends?
If Apartments, Condos, and parks say private property tenants and guests only. Doesn't that make them ineligible?
Most sidewalks that are adjacent to city streets are actually public property. Cities typically own a right of way that includes not only the street itself, but also the land adjacent to the roadway. This usually includes the sidewalk and, in some municipalities, even extends some distance past the sidewalk, and very public.
A sidewalk is more of a Common area, in a neighborhood, than a playground in a circle of Condominiums. There they can tell you it's private property and you need to leave.
And that gives people in single family Condos , apartments and private parks an unfair advantage to homeowners. Kinda discrimination against home owners. That's why people who live in rural areas get upset and leave the game. It should be fair for everyone, not just people huddled in masses. We have things that are the very same kinda nominations, people in privately owned condos have, and their Wayspots are ones they can only use in some cases. Because it's private property unless you know someone that lives there. They need to make it fun for Everyone. I would like a gym or two and four spinners I could reach from my front room, while watching TV. Just kidding but you all have seen it. Allowing Condos, Apartments, and Private parks to do this is discrimination against homeowners, because they're people's houses and private property also. I can see not allowing on a large ranch or large property's that you can't reach a spinner on. But on a public sidewalk should be OK.
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Niantic's definition of private residential property generally means that if anything is on the property of a single family dwelling, it is classed as private residential property and should be rejected.
Depending where you are, some places in the US include the sidewalk as part of the residence it's in front of, other places don't. Some places have clearly defined property boundaries and some don't.
Say there's a single family dwelling that has a garden wall marking the property boundary. Anything within that wall would be on private residential property, and anything attached to the wall, even on the outside facing section of it, would also be considered private residential property as it forms part of the boundary of the property.
Blocks of flats/apartments have many communal areas which do not belong to any single private residence, so anything in one of those communal areas is perfectly fine, even if it is limited to people who live in that block, their guests, and anyone who is performing a job there. The same applies to property that's behind the locked gates of a business, for example. Only people who work at that business and their guests may be able to access it, but it's fine by the Wayfarer rules.
Not everyone is expected to have access to every wayspot all of the time. So long as some people can access it some of the time, and it isn't on a single family private residence or some other location that would disqualify it (such as a school), then that's good enough for Niantic.
This is what I was looking for Thanks