Charter Township of New Canton

[dunkin1991 0]

  This is my first attempt at a CJ and I do welcome as much advice as I can get. I began this endeavor a couple of months ago but never thought about posting any journal on it although I have been an avid Simtropolis fan for a long time.
  I decided to recreate my home town of Canton, MI in an unusual way, for me, by placing all existing roads and zones. I have also decided not to turn on time as of yet to get a real feel of the progress of time with each city block. I did this to create my township to the present then build it my own way into the future. 
  As of right now I have placed about 80% of the residential zones and hardly any commercial and industrial zones. I have laid every major road and highway but still working on side steets.   
  The region is 6.4 miles square (alittle larger than a township) comprising of 25 medium size cities I call sections.The screenshots I provided are shots of the region topography with city boundries and a layout of the roads. The map was generated using USGS maps. I hope all will enjoy as much as I will.
 

[dunkin1991 0]

[jacqulina 162]

sounds great my friend looking forward to seeing pics

[GMT 389]

interesting region so far

waiting for more

[dunkin1991 0]

Can anyone see my uploaded screen shots or do I have a problem?

[Jay Ess 15]

Yeah I can't see em. When I right click and click properties it says https://www.simtropolis.com/images/blank.gif

you probably forgot to upload em in .jpg format 800x600 max resolution.

[De Ja Vu 117]

The images are in .png format - convert them to .jpg (So that IE users can see your pics). Anyway nice region, good luck with it.

[dunkin1991 0]

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[Jay Ess 15]

good, good, looks so much better now that I can see it'

Cant wait to see some city shots, I'm from royal oak by the way so I know a little bit of where you're going to be cjing

[dunkin1991 0]

I'm using Michigan Ave as a Highway as I had a concern ther wasn't enough highway transportation, besides there is alot of Industrial zones in that area

[The Arrowz 3]

Nice region shot; are you planning on making it rural -> urban?

[dunkin1991 0]

   I'll continue to make this a suburban community with some rural in the western part of the township. But as soon as the township develops after the start of time and It is obvious to me that there can no longer be any more to develop for present day standards, I'll develop the township in my vision to become a prosperous center of culture and finance. I am not using any cheats to boost my funds and I'm using all the popular MODDS such as NAM, simgoober's packs, PEG's uploads and I like to use cycledogg's stuff also.

[dunkin1991 0]

I will provide more city shots as soon develop starts

[Muck308 55]

Looks like a good start, dunkin. It must be nice to have a hometown that translates well into SC4. I could never pull off my hometown in SC4. Too many hills and windy roads. I wish you luck and I look forward to seeing developement.

[SounderBruce 173]

ok...good

[fabsies55 5]

looks, good but slightly confusing as the overviews make it confusing but i cant wait for some city pics,

good luck with this cj too.

[dunkin1991 0]

    With this being a suburb of Detroit , the terrain is some what flat, your typical southeastern michigan rolling hills. What makes this fun is the "somewhat" grid pattern with the combination of subdivision road mayhem. I'm anxious to see what will happen when I'm through doing the zone layout and turn on the power. I'm taking alot of effort in realism and accuracy with the road placement. I have taken the roads from a detailed map of Canton and using a real zoning map to get things right. I'm getting closer to power day I can't wait!!