Stablizing City

[n.alum 0]

It's me again with yet another question. My recent topic on the environment and how to keep it stable really helped me. So thank you to all those who helped me with that. I am trying to get better with how to  make money rather than loosing via taxation. I keep my eye on elementary and hospital capacity just so that the number of students/patient capacity is just above the number of students/patients. My problem is how can i keep a stable EVERYTHING without necessarily expanding a great deal. And before you ask yes all my affairs are in order from traffic to parks to police and fire dept coverage. Thanks for the help! 

[JJC12321 0]

here's a tutorial on the subject, it helped me. if you have already read this just keep adjusting the coverage and capacity along with building more buildings(this allows u to get income through taxes). if it is early in your game, it is alright to go a little under now and then

https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=146&threadid=78505&enterthread=y

[Darth Apple 54]

try making a farmland city , there easier to build on , also ,try to create imaginary limits , and build you city little by little then stop at these limits giving you better control. you can try to demolish some buildings and rezone(one building at a time , of course)to rebalance things out after you have created you city the as far out as you want.

hope this helps.

Blake

[Cougar2004 127]

I'd had good luck this morning with the ideas in this thread.

I made a small city with farms around the outside, with plenty of neighbor road connections. No services. Just housing and a tiny bit of Commercial. For some reason, i never went in the red, and it has flourished. Eventually i added light services centralized in the center of the city for coverage radius purposes (the same place i put the commercial), and I left most of the land empty, of course i placed quite a few trees around it.

By keep the services cost sliders very low just covering the city needs, residents stay happy, and i have monthly taxe income in excess of $1000 now. Its holding and stable. I built that in the first 3 years, and then just those minor changes over the next year, and then enjoyed stability and income up to the 7thyear and now beyond. So good tips above. Thanks.