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If you are talking about the parking lot of a high rise apartment building (or two) I might agree with you. However, if you are talking about the streets in the apartment complexes in the majority of my city, I would not. The streets in the vast majority of the apartment complexes in my city are about the same as any suburban streets.
Two points on that. First, I used the term "parking lot" and I think you (and most people) readily know the difference between a street and a parking lot. An apartment complex parking lot (whether high rise or not) clearly does not fall within the statute. Second, the statute uses the term "highway" and highway as defined in the statute is limited to those roads/streets that are "publicly maintained." So a private road in a HOA that is maintained by the HOA (and thus not "publicly maintained") would also not fall within the statute. In some states the motor vehicle law definitions to do extend to private roads that are open to the public to use; your state might be one of them. But not all states are the same, and Tennessee has limited its definition to those roads that are publicly maintained.