Glenn County

[theone42 0]

News

3/3/09 - Start of City Journal, I decided to just start a new CJ then try and salvage the remains from the last one.  Issues with the plugins began conflicting with my system somehow and so I have started over.  I have also picked a new reigon and a new country, one which I feel comfortable creating.

3/5/09 - I have changed the name after I realized that I may have stolen the name from another city journal.  My apologies, I felt like I had seen that name before.

3/10/09 - Apologies for the Absence, I had some stuff to deal with.  new content added.  Additionally, thanks to those who voted, it was a tie between the urbanist and the Transit Whacko.

Samstom

The Growth of a sprawling metropolis

Samstom is a small, rural town out in the midwest.  With a population of just over 6,000 people, the town is barely a blip on the map, and While the Amtrak Railroad passes through here as a stop, Its station barely pulls off 10,000 people a year.  Here is a brief introduction to the town as expressed by Mayor Dennis Karin.

Forks Glenn was settled in 1835 by a group of New England Settlers looking to gain on the governments land grants.  The river town has grown a good ammount but it still small compared to most cities.  However the election for the mayors office is in two weeks, and Glennton Developer Michael Landown is leading the polls.  The developer thinks that this city should grow rapidly, and become another metropolis.  Many agree, as he promises that their Land Value will triple under his reign.  Fearing my loss, I have put out a series of pictures for the general public to view, to decide wether they want a massive city or the small town charm they all fell in love with.  Welcome to our town, please stay awhile. 

Mayor Dennis Karin

An overview of the town by night, peaceful and small

the town center, with the street imporovment project shown.

Directly next to it is the Kilms Neigborhood, the oldest and wealthiest part of town

Kilms Park is the main attration along the River Glenn, and as such, it the reason for the high property values in the area.

Lowland new development, built during the housing boom in the 50's, it is the last growth that this village expirenced.  since then there has been a stagnation, mostly caused by the mayors unwillingness to change the neighborhood.

The town has a somewhat large farming industry, which has been growing slightly in the past 5 years.

 more farms

Many years ago, this town was chosen to host the state fair, the town accepted and a massive facility was built.  it is now used for the bi yearly farming exhibition, and the town fair in June.

Southon Coal facility, adjacent to Quarterly Industrial park.

Second City Journal, and with significanly less custom content, please go easy.

[jimbo_jj 1]

Looks like a great start. Nice variety of streets and dirt roads, really makes a difference.

[SounderBruce 173]

This is a good start...I suggest searching through the STEX (Simtropolis Exchange) for more downloadable content and putting it here.

[danielcote 9]

not bad but it would be nice if you mod some buildings.

[technicallydead 1]

Its reminds me of my hometown! Good Luck to this CJ...

[mskero 0]

good job.....

[theone42 0]

Samstom Grows

With the election of a developer to the mayors office, the city has been growing, many new subdivisions have exploded and the population has grown to about 24,000 and the city has a rapidly expanding residential section.  After ten years of straight growth, the once quiet and peaceful rural town has tons of new subdivisions and many new residences.  Plans are underway for an expanded bus system, and possibly a tram linking the western residential sections, the central town square, and the industrial villa under one line.  Farming and industry are begining to take a seat compared to the expanding demand for commercial offices.  The following is the expanding city and the farming growth.

An Overview of the expanding city. notice the Farming growth across the river.

The Satellite downtown, many consider this the future of the town and abandoning the industrial history of the city.

The expanded main street interchange, now a four lane monster and expected to expand even farther with the demand by travelers to go around the main city. 

A close up of the westside commercial sector, high quality offices now fill this void.

The Samston Agricultural University, a new prestigious university in this growing city.

New Multimillion dollar homes, the rich and famous are moving here thanks to low property taxes and new corporate offices engulfing this farming community.

The state fair is still hosted here, however, it no longer enjoys the rural farms around it and now has suburban growth engulfing it.

Expansion Plans

This is the current plan to satisfy corporate fatcats and residential suburbanites

The new city will be linked by buses and another bridge across the River Glenn.   The conservative estimate is a total of 5,000 new residents of this once peaceful little town.

[Muck308 55]

Wow, lots of new cjs this week! Good start. I like the farmland circling your town. I always end up with 8 or 9 Pedriana Plants...

Lots of growth since the first update, so I assume some more farmland will be eaten up. I like the expansion though. I'm a big city guy.

And of course... I agree with the others... more custom content.

[SounderBruce 173]

Good work...

[Jay Ess 15]

nice... cant wait to see more. very tenneseeish, the size

[danielcote 9]

can't wait for that expansion!

[theone42 0]

Booming Growth

Second City, New Commerce, and Interstate 23

Three New Areas too show you today

Second city was the brainchild of mayor Landown, a multimillion dollar, 5,000 person subdivision built on hundreds of acres of farmland.  Landown stressed the nessecity of this delelopment to contine the economies booming expansion.  However, when the land was discovered to have been a classic Cerokee Tribal city, many felt the land had to be properly  excavated by a team of archeologists.  Mayor Landown opposed any idea, saying that the excavation would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to add onto the pricetag.  The townspeople and the Mayor and his cronies began to wage war with each other, and the plans for the new city went on as originally designed.

Mayor Landown, who was one of the most popular mayors in the country, watched as his plans fell apart before him, his plans for gross expansion were blocked as citizens took up greater arms against him,  within two months, Mayor Landown was desraced as more and more citizens discovered "discrepetcies" in his planning and accounting.  The Scandal that ensued saw found hundreds of Millions of dollars in "missing" funds from projects such as second city and new commerce, Shoddy "enviromental impact statements", and hundreds of tax "favors" for the wealthy few who controlled these projects.  Six weeks later, in a county courthouse, the city of Samstrom sentenced the mayor too 4 months in a county jail, as well as an exile from the county.

New Commerce, Next to highway 23

The Cherokee city was too late to be saved, it had been paved over too make way for a minimansion.  New commerce was partially completed, however, plans have stalled until the new mayor is elected. 

The city, as of the ejection of Michael Landown, all planning projects havde stalled.

[theone42 0]

Replies

Jimbo_jj - Thank you, the street addon mod is great.

ComputerGuy890100 - Thank you again, unfortunalty, I found that major files within my plugins folder were corrupting my base game, I still have all the dependencies though, which helps alot for all stuff I Download.

danielcote - Thank you, Im trying but working on a mac game is somewhat more difficult than most people think.

jonpaulsiglos - This is acutally partially based off of my grandparents small midwestern town.

mskero - thank you

Muck308 - Thank you, I have been wanting to do a cj like this for a little while now, I find them very fun and quite a bit easier than my last cj

colonel1 - Thank you, Its sort of a midwestern town growth.

[danielcote 9]

Trust me I have a mac computer and I got a somsort of windows program that lets me have a pc side of my mac so I use my old PC sc4 disc to play now.

[theone42 0]

The State Fair

The recent sopenoa against former mayor Landown has caused many in the city to question this massive suburban development.  The beloved state fair, a major commercial enterprise for the city, was put in danger of development.  As such, after the ejection of mayor Landown the state fair was declared a state monument, and now is a historic landmark.  No development can occur on this land or the adjacent parking lot by state law.

[jacqulina 162]

great start and intro my friend,allready looking nice,great work and pics so far.

[fabsies55 5]

looks.............alright, could be better

[Nikferni 0]

Good pictures but almost an vanilla town, a tip get nicer parking lots and some new buldings.

[theone42 0]

I tried to add some flavor to the pictures by enhansing them in iPhoto.  I also spent a good ammount of time downloading new content for the city.

A New Mayor

A City Celebrates a clean government

The election of an urbanist to the Mayors office has brought massive changes to the city.  Within 6 months, the city had begun projects it had been putting off for years, a new airport was built, The city zoo was completed, and many new miles of roadway improvement was completed.  The transportation secretary began building new bus lines, as well as put a 20 year plan for transportation and continued growth for the city.  As stated by new mayor, Sam Green, "our amazing growth has come at a cost, many hundreds of acres of farmland have been ruthlessly devoured under the reign of former mayor Michael Landown is a discrase to all who treasure the proper use of land.  As your new mayor, I promise that all new development will be done in the public eye, that all current development will be upgraded to higher density, and that new projects will improve daily commutes and create a better living environment for all."

An Overview of the city, take note of the new airport, zoo, and growing financial district at the major intersection. 

A Close up of the new airport, now serving 2 daily flights to both Minneapolis and Detroit under the northwest codename (soon to be Delta)

The General Aviation sector, a growing favorite of the people living in this weathy city.

Karin Zoo, named after the ex mayor, the zoo is a major popular destination for the children of the city. 

Phyic acres, a new subdivision, the last project done by mayor Landown.

High tech industry is quickly becoming a major taxpayer in the city.  such as this green projects industrial plant.

New Commerce, a project scaled back masivley from its original intention.

Comet Research Corporation, a locally owned research lab

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The Mass Transit Plan

Green line, links Industrial to New Commerce, VIA Commerce Central

Yelow line, Links western Commercial with state fair VIA Commerce central

Red Line, Links second city with Green Projects Industrial VIA Commerce Center

Blue Line, Links Airport to Univversity VIA second City

In addition, the Rail station is planned to be worked on, a new bypass for freight trains to run on will be built, and there is a possibility of linking route 23 with the new Cenataur Parkway.

 

[SounderBruce 173]

Great work!

[Muck308 55]

Nice update! I really like the zoo and the green it adds to your city.

[danielcote 9]

hey nice job on the airport!

[pagenotfound 53]

Nice but it needs a little more Custom Content..

[theone42 0]

Replies

As many of you have stated, I need more costom content.

I have listened, and have added as much as I can, its somewhat difficult dealing with .exe installers.

Danielcote - yea, I hear that the Mac version is really buggy, its kind of a pain, but I dont have the money for XP or the patience for dealing with Microsoft Vista.

jacqulina - thank you, i've been running my images through iPhoto now (sorry, I don't have CS3)

fabsies55 - Thank you for your honsety, im working on cleaner looks and more costom content

Nikferni - I've always had trouble once I started downloading lots of costom content because then, even if I have all the dependencies, they still give me brown boxes

ComputerGuy890100 - thank you

Muck308 - thank you, it took me a little while with the zoo pieces, but amazingly, they all worked.

Danielcote -  thanks, I love building those airport, I fly so I try and make them as realistic as possible.

pagenotfound - working on it, still in the process of adding more.

[theone42 0]

Strip Mall

The New Strip mall, the Langley Hospital, and contruction of the Ground Light Rail System

Minor changes have occured during the new mayor, The Cuckley interchange was rebuilt, a large ammount of farmland was torn away to make way for the Second city Main Street, a new strip mall in the city.

The Lavender Mall contruction site, future home of the Lavender-Davidson Mall

After a lengthy discussion, it was decided that the Cuckley Interchange would be leveled and rebult to make it more homely than it used to be.

The Langely Hospital, new and clean

A total overview, not much growth recently.

 

Will be on Vacation for this week, sorry for this, but probally no updates until Late March.

Forgot to put them through iPhoto, sorry, but this is somewhat rushed

[danielcote 9]

wow its getting really big and the farms are getting really small!

[Schulmanator 5,812]

A nice new update - you certainly are making good progress.

[edmonton_stinks 5]

Good looking city you've got. I especially like the mall! Much better than the Maxis businesses.

[theone42 0]

Apologies to all, My computer bugged out so its gonna be another few days, (new 320 HD, as well as a new logic board and 2 GB RAM, it deserves it after 3 years of unwavering service.) As such, I will be glad to give replies but please stick with me until the computer works again.

daniel Cote - thanks, working hard at it, nice p51 btw, do you fly?

Schulmanator - thank you.

edmonton_stinks - Thank you, it does look much nicer than those ugly maxis buildings.

[fabsies55 5]

is pretty alright could be better but yea... keep it up...

i'd suggest expanding your suburbs before making medium density stuff...