Pollution Help

[Ionic-Elm 13]

How would I go the best way of reducing pollution in my cities without cheats and/or placing less industry? I don't really want to build a rural area, but my cities do not develop unless I place industry.

[lhrob 213]

Try plopping a lot of trees and parks in your city, particularly in and around your industrial zones... and try to keep your residential areas as far from the dirty industry as you can.

[cowDrinker 0]

I found something that might be very useful in handling the pollution problem. 

 

You should also not build residential close to the industrial.

 

 

[Bdub01 201]

Parks and education! The smarter the sims the better, less polluting industry. HTI has no pollution, so make them sims brilliant!!!

[Prophet42 1,503]

You could also enact the Clean Air Ordinance.  However, make sure you have enough Hi-Tech demand, because the Clean Air Ordinance will reduce demand on dirty industry and some on manufacturing industry.  As Bdubo1 stated, make sure your sims are educated so your Hi-Tech industry demand is high.

[TotalCasual 1]

Mayor-mode trees absorb pollution, so plant them densely in and around dirty industry for cheap pollution cleanup.  On the other hand, parks will boost desirability so you can get R$$ and R$$$ and non-CS$ commercial closer to industrial areas, saving space.

 

Like the others said, educating your residents will increase demand for IM, IHT, and office jobs, so new ID will stop getting built.  One important tip about getting IHT - even after you lose the demand for dirty industry, high tech doesn't like to grow in areas that are already polluted. Therefore you'll need to demolish those nasty smokestacks, steel sheds, and tanks.  Parks, plazas, etc will help boost IHT desirability also.

 

(note I don't mean demolish only those ID structures, blow up all your ID in an area where you want IHT to grow)

[Mr Saturn64 742]

Trees and parks are your best Bets, but the anti-pollution ordinance is also helpful in the said situation.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Put your reward cemeteries next to the industrial pods.  The are great pollution absorbers.  Lots of MM trees and parks as well.

 

Also, you will need water treatment plants.

[.anonyman 28]

Does this mean that adding god-mode trees doesn't help with pollution? 

[Bdub01 201]

Start out with god mode trees. I try to cram them in everywhere. Especially if you know where your going to put your landfill, make sure it's full of trees in that area. Of course once you start zoning and buildings grow, trees are cut down. That's where the MM trees and parks come in.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

I am not sure about god mode trees.  However, I never overdo them, because they slow the game down.  I lay them out in patters that seem natural to me, like following watercourses.  I use the landscape view (CTRL+SHIFT+c) to look at the land contours when laying out trees.  This handy toggle can really give you a feel for where trees should not be heavily laid down.

 

Remember, any tree is an object, and all objects are visited by the simulator.

[SimMavGER 8]

If I may hijack this thread for a brief moment - do the mods that increase (2x/4x) jobs in C and I zones not also indirectly increase pollution due to the increased traffic from commuters to the then more occupied/busy buildings?

[z1 566]

If there is increased traffic, there will be increased vehicle pollution.