Cape May County, New Jersey : Postcards from the Jersey Shore

Nice use of the FAR Add a nice variety of flora to the swamp and it'll look very authentic (I presume there is marsh flora, never had to use it myself)

Great job once again! I love the use of PEG's buoys and the RL picture. As far as trying to get the right residential lots to grow, one trick I use is to sort the different custom content I download into the four different tilesets (Chicago, NY, Houston and Euro) using the ilives reader. Then, if you want a certain res building to grow, just select the correct building tileset in game, and you have greatly increased the chance that your building will grow. It may be a lot of work initially, but I think it is worth it in the end - especially after intense bulldozing sessions.

Swamplands definately need loads of flora, this is the environment that trees and plants usually love, so they exploit it as they can.
But apart from that, dude, it's impressive. Nice use of the FAR and of diagonal streets, the way you work with the "canals" is incredible too. Really, really enjoyable to see.

@ LostRealist: I would agree with you that a fresh water marsh would hold a great diversity of flora. Not so for the tidal marshes. They are flooded twice daily with salt water brought from the ocean on each high tide, and makes for an inhospitable environment to most plant life. The flora is for the most part cord grass and salt hay, two species which can tolerate the higher salt levels
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With increased development of the region , more fresh water is being pumped from the county's aquafiers. A resut of this is that the "salt line" ( the point where a stream or creek has a high enough salinity level to be considered brackish) has been advancing steadily upstream in recent years. A result of this has been the killing off of species that are salt intolerant, like this stand of salt petrified trees along the banks of Green Creek

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Love the way you're threading the FARoads through the land.