Wanting Parking Lots

[bentleys_n_drama 0]

Does anyone know of any parking lots where you can connect to the road then add commercial or residential beyond that without the res or comm coming up with no road attached? Kind of like a city square?

[bentleys_n_drama 0]

I AM ALSO LOOKING FOR SOME SMALLER MAPS WITH ALL MEDIUM CITIES... MAYBE WITH 12 CITIES TOTAL. ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN GET SOMETHING LIKE THAT OR HOW TO MAKE ONE?

[awake_78 0]

Does anyone know of any parking lots where you can connect to the road then add commercial or residential beyond that without the res or comm coming up with no road attached? Kind of like a city square?quote>

I think the SAM has a version of a street look like parking lot. But you cannot put a growable area behind a lot. It needs to be near road or street or etc....

[masochist 111]

Originally posted by: awake_78 I think the SAM has a version of a street look like parking lot. But you cannot put a growable area behind a lot. It needs to be near road or street or etc....quote>

Actually, the SAM's parking lot is simply a street texture replacement...so it's still a street, which means you can zone along it.

[awake_78 0]

Yes I know I mean in general behind any lot not SAM

[Spinmaster 75]

Curious... has anyone tried to put a parking lot (actual lot, not SAM texture) on a road... then a ped mall along the parking lot? Then the RCI zone behind the ped mall? Haven't tried this myself and can't at the moment, but should technically work. Though being set back rather far from the actual road, I don't imagine commercial would see it as highly desirable, for the "high customers" aspect anyway, it would be at least 3 tiles away from the real road depending on the size of the parking lot.

Edit:

Scratch all of that... duh. I should know better than to post before 6am. Parking lots aren't used as "parking for work" - only for mass transit usage. So the notion that "workers" will drive to the parking lot and walk to work... no. Will the buildings grow? Yes - thanks to the ped mall. Can any workers get to them? Nope - the parking lot is (ironically) in the way.

[io_bg 249]

Actually you're wrong. If you make that, the workers will leave their car in the parking lot and will walk to the place where they work. The same will be if you make a ped street with the ped mall tiles and pu parkings next to streets or roads.