How to expand city?

[Royalpurple 0]

So I have made a city with on an island, I made a bridge to the bigger section and I made a residential, industrial and commercial zones and a power plant, but no one is moving in. It is low density. Help?

[greener07 8]

Are you facing the dead stuck population growth problem?

[Royalpurple 0]

No My population is at 270 something. It is a small city, but there seems to be nothing wrong with it. The roads work fine, the houses are all connected, but no one is moving in

[greener07 8]

Build some I-D...set taxes to 9%....... connect to neighbors...

 

would be better if I-D is built in another city & then both of em' connected 2gether through rail & road

[cogeo 960]

Do you have a (positive) residential demand? If not create more jobs. For a new city, with not enough educated workforce industry and farms is initially the only option. So get some poor jobs (and workers), and add educational facilities (elementary and high schools and libraries locally, and college/university and museum citywide). This will slowly create demand for CO$$ and CO$$$. And you should satisfy any positive CS demand too (it's better than dirty industry). I have been able to grow a region without industry or farms at all, how. You may also want to take a look and

 

EDIT: Forgot to mention, if your industrial zones do not develop, and the freight shipment times are "Long", make a road connection to another city, developed or not, even to the "SimNation". Alternatively you can make a rail connection, and run rails/spurs through you industrial zones; you almost certainly need a freight station too, because not all industrial zones can be adjacent to rails. You can also build a port, but these cost a lot, and usually a road connection is the cheapest option. Rail just looks more "realistic".