When submitting a Wayspot Appeal, make sure to include as much of the following information as possible:
Wayspot Title: Free Little Library #53747
Location (lat/lon): (37.2820053, -121.8952598)
City: San Jose
Country: United States of America
Screenshot of the Rejection Email (do not include your personal information): I never got an email. The spot just disappeared.
Additional Information (if any): This little Free Library is not on a private single family property. The unit is a duplex which makes it multi unit housing. The primary unit entrance is on 1451 Husted Avenue. The entrance to the secondary unit is on Cherry Avenue. It is the gate to the left of the garage and leads to the unit which is above the garage.
Public records show it is zoned as R-1-8 which would allow the duplex. Permit 22 on public record shows the conversion to multifamily dwelling.
I doubt the pool in your scenario would count. Apartment pool submissions are not valid as far as I’m aware and it would be no different. If it does I need citation so I can submit a few stops.
Actual, apartment/condo complex pools are eligible. When clarification was released back in May, they used the word “community” to define a pool that isn’t on PRP, and later clarified that apartment pools are allowed.
The use of community is to define that there are people that can access the pool, but there may be some that cannot, say non-residents. Even pools at recreation centers typically are only available to use for paying customers, but they are still a community and not on PRP.
I have submitted multiple little free libraries at duplex and apartment buildings and had both machine learning and the community accept them but then they are removed later and appeals are rejected.
I have asked the specific question because I have been in this specific situation and have gotten no response.
Can Niantic please farther define “single family private residential property?”
If I rent a room in my house is it no longer single family? If I have an outbuilding that I rent to a different family is my property no longer single family? Duplex’s look like sfprp but are not. Is there a minimum number of units? Or unrelated individuals? If I am renting out an apartment building and only one family lives there is it sfprp? Does it stop being sfprp if they live in two apartments on two floors? Does it stop being sfprp if another family moved in to a different apartment but return to sfprp when they move out?
The idea behind permitting way spots in multi unit residential building is that the way spot should be in a common area…. A place where residents or visitors can access or gather. This duplex is a house with a fenced private yard. The LFL exists on private residential property that lacks a common area for residents. A duplex with a fenced yard is very different from an apartment building with a common entrance for residents of multiple households.
Also, when you look at the house, there is nothing to indicate that it is a duplex. Looks like a single entry small house with one front door, though the street view is obscured.
There is an obvious ambiguity there. Facesmooch is right. To resolve it one needs a clear definition of the types of property in which LFL are allowed and not allowed. Duplexes are not addressed and that will cause conflict. I have shown in public record this is multi-family housing which is not Single Family.
I fully agree that renting a room or an unmarried couple living together or friends sharing a house doesn’t suddenly makes a house that is designed for and in primary use by one “family unit” not sfprp. Much in the way an air BNB and a real BNB would be judged differently.
It doesn’t make me, fruitlessly, hope for better clarity on how to identify sfprp vs communal space in other private residential property.
In a duplex situation the fenced yard is communal space and little free libraries certainly invite visitors.
The primary question becomes what metric are reviewers and Niantic using? Especially in regards to appeals and removals. How it looks and what the property records show in this instance don’t line up.