Hello everyone, this is my first nomination for a pokestop and it got denied + the appeal got denied. The reason was it beeing on property of a private residence. The street library I’ve built is mounted on a mailbox wall, on a public road. see picture below that shows the property line. How can …

You cannot. It can feel like a rather harsh rule, but anything attached to a house or exterior property wall of a house is not eligible unless it’s a multi-family residence (e.g. a block of flats / apartment building).

Here is the clarification on Private property. [image] Private Residences, Farmland & K-12 Criteria Clarification Collection Single-family private residential properties (SFPRP), farms, and K-12 (schools or facilities primarily focused for persons under 18 year…

Does this mean that if I make the library standalone, close to the road. it might get accepted? by the way, the wall you can see in the picture is not a fence, house wall, or a garage wall. Its a wall for mailboxes, not connected to the house in any way. Its a wall with a small roof, just for mai…

It may not be attached to the building itself but it is still attached to a facade which is part of the property, and on/very close to the property boundary (and IMO very similar to a fence). Moving it won’t necessarily make it eligible (nothing should be treated as an instant acceptance), but it w…

[image] tiMMelicious: Does this mean that if I make the library standalone, close to the road. it might get accepted? It might get accepted in any situation, but as it stands that is unlikely and it would be likely that it would be subsequently removed. If you do a little search here you will…

Even if someone manage to move the LFL to somewhat public land and made reviewer into thinking that the wayspot is eligible doesnt mean it will stay. Anyone who notice that the wayspot is actually ineligible or gone (put temporaryly to make people think its on public land), can report the wayspot fo…

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afroninja243 September 30, 2026, 10:08am 3

Here is the clarification on Private property.

Note the second sentence:

This includes the outer facing facade, fence of these locations, and property boundaries.

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