Brilliant!

Increasingly people are buying huge SUVs and thinking of them as as a home away from home. People spend so much time driving that they want to think of the car as a room in their house. So, this is the next step - a Condo Apt. that utilizes the SUV as an extra room.

Assume that you are someone who is sold on the idea of how much space America dedicates to cars & parking, and sold on the vehicle as a room on wheels, and suppose you see cities from a suburban perspective - a detached node, linked to other nodes only by cars - then this all starts to make sense.

What scares me is that despite the increasing vogue with bicycles as transportation in the city, there is also an increasing vogue with buidling more extensive auto parking inside buildings. Chase the car of the streets, and it ends up in your living room. Because for many, it actually has become the living room.

To me, the unanswered question is whether you will you be able to fit your Hummer into the car elevator?

I'd also point out that this isn't an entirely new idea. Back at the turn of the century, Martha Stewart was planning to drive her Range Rover into her office space at the Starrett-Lehigh building just a few blocks north ( http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CEED6143CF935A3575BC0A9669C8B63 ) - in her case, she may not have been permitted to do this for reasons of ventilation, since this was an indoor space. There are also more than a few people - I even know one personally - in the neighborhood who take their motorcycles or Vespas up in the frieght elevators to their work/live spaces, with or without official permission to do so.

If someone wants to live this way, let them. This seems like an ideal setup for a drug dealer or a paranoid television personality.

These are ideal for people who plan on dying and having nobody know they are missing, until the neighbors call in a strange smell.

But I suppose their lawyers thought of that.

Any zoning lawyers care to weigh in?

If I had paid all that money to live in an expensive neighborhood, I'd want to sit outside on a patio!

Odd note that the parking spaces are all screened by greenery. It seems to recognize that, among other things, nobody's going to want to look out the window into someone else's garage.