The save is from November of last year. But yeah there's no residential lots just all business. (even tho I basically made the top floor of my shop a house for my sims so they don't have to leave.)
I just got the Eco-Lifestyle expansion on Friday the 13th, 2023, and I am having a similar issue suddenly. While it's not a Sharing is Caring problem, Free Love and other NAPs are messing with my business on Magnolia Promenade. Everyone is too busy kissing each other to do any work or shopping. No, there is nobody actually living there... How has this not been fixed?
EDIT: So maybe it just default adds stuff to neighborhoods? I went ahead and swapped The Roadhouse to residental, moved in a cheated Sim with 10 million dollars, deleted all the NAP, then moved her out and put it back to retail. Let's HOPE the NAPs do not return on Magnolia Promenade, as I said it's a purely commercial neightborhood so by what others say, there is no NPCs there to be voting. I WOULD like for NPCs to have votes in actual residential neighborhoods, but then again there is the the entire issue that those things affect RETAIL lots in the first place.
EDIT 2: Okay, yes.... it seems that NPCs are still voting in Magnolia Promenade despite nobody actually living there. As I said, I literally just got the expansion last Friday. So for now my only recourse is it seems to disable NPC voting and give my played households full control. While I don't want to do that, looks like this bug was never fixed.
You do have another option. Each neighborhood is limited to 3 N.A.P.s, so choose 3 that you don't mind and enact them the same way that you repealed the ones you didn't like.
