Car free living

Car-free living refers to a housing offer aimed at households that organise their everyday mobility primarily by bicycle, public transport, on foot or with a car-sharing car and want to use the spaces between the houses for other activities than parking cars standing around on them. It eliminates the cost of building an expensive underground parking garage in urban neighborhoods. It also eliminates the cross-subsidization of car-owning households by car-free households, which in turn saves money. The number of parking spaces (for CarSharing, taxis, visitors) is significantly lower than in normal residential areas and is 0.2 or 0.1 parking spaces per residential unit in the developments realised so far. These parking spaces are generally concentrated at the periphery. The question of how much "car freedom" is reasonable and enforceable in a specific case will be settled with the residents in the planning process. The need for parking facilities for bicycles of all kinds is all the greater, because cargo bikes, child/bicycle trailers, guest bikes, tandems, etc. are also used intensively, which want to be theft-proof and protected from the rain, but preferably not parked in the basement. Newer projects are called BikeCity or VeloCity because the residents of such settlements organise their local mobility primarily by bicycle, often with well over 50% of the routes.

The following subdomains can be used to further narrow down the car-free settlements according to certain criteria:
www.autofreie.siedlungen.eu
or via www.fahrradfreundliche.siedlungen.eu