Industry in city

[emsnu 2]

Hi all,

Could you give me some suggestions on how to bridge dirty industrial area with the rest of the city? When starting off I usually leave a huge space between the city and the industry and connect the 2 areas with road or avenue, but as the city grows, more lands are needed  and as the city expands that huge space keeps making me feel uneasy, because I can't place anything near or around the industry because of the pollution. So how do you usually deal with that? 

Thank you!

[Nesral Sredna 62]

The "problem" with dirty industry is that no one wants to live too close to it, especially residents, but also high level commerce. smaller shops are more tolerant. Personally I prefer only to develop high-tech industry within the city borders and have residents travel out of the map for the dirtier pollute. Due to limitation in the simulations, Sims are more happy about traveling outside the map, than to the end of it...

However, to have dirty industry within the cityborder, place a bufferzone with low $ commerce and when it develops, lock the buildings from developing into $$/$$$. Closer to the residental area, you have a zone with medium/high (but only if your city is big enough) commerce that can grow more freely.

Hope that helps and was understandable.

  Edited July 12, 2015 by Nesral Sredna  
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[TekindusT 3,809]

Consider the option of providing good education to your Sims and letting the industrial areas gradually develop into high-tech industries. This will create less NIMBY effect in your city and your Sims will find the areas closer to the high-tech industries desirable.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Of some note, R$ Sims will live anywhere, even next to a toxic waste dump.  You can zone them right next to ID and they will move in.  They don't always have cars and will either walk to take transit to work.  Make sure you have the NAM.  You might want to do a custom NAM install if you are new to the game and only select options you are ready to tackle.

Because this is a North American demographic and geographic game, the prevailing winds appear to be westerly.  If you place your ID on the east edge of your tile, about half of the pollution goes over the edge into the great bit bucket in the sky and is never seen in game.  ID is usually temporary in any case, usually promoting to IM as the education levels of your Sims improves and the need for ID jobs goes away.  Over time, you can convert ID zones into CS$ and CS$$ if you like.  Going to I-HT is difficult until the pollution levels in the land caused by the ID are resolved.

I-HT and CO$$$ have approximately the same environmental and educational requirements.  You should carefully install the I-HT fix when you are read to start zoning for it.  R$$$ don't work in I-HT without the bug fix.

Expect your zoning to by dynamic over the life of your city.  If you upgrade a zone, the transition will happen slowly.  If you change the zone type, the buildings currently in place will be immediately demolished.  Don't be afraid of urban renewal.  It is standard practice in most cities of the world.

[emsnu 2]

Okay thanks for all your reply  I think I'll bride it with some C$

 

[rsc204 21,836]

It doesn't hurt to run say a canal around the border of industry, some of the original Simgoober lots, along with CAL's remastered versions even have addons to make a functioning canal system for transporting freight or adding water/power more subtly to out of the way areas. Parks and trees are also another good buffer, many of these items will have effects that help to cancel out the pollution and therefore reduce the areas that would otherwise not be inhabited by higher-wealth zones.

Remember also that R$ sims generally don't care too much about pollution, since it's those sims that work in ID it's quite possible to have a more mixed setup, one of the harder parts of the game is keeping sufficient R$ sims to do all the menial stuff, much like the real world. If everything was nice and therefore expensive, R$ sims can't afford to live in those places and your game can become unbalanced as a result.