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May 29, 2009 Population: 5,785 Chapter 2: Essential Upgrades The great recession is coming to an end, and town leaders are expressing great optimism for Kanin Fjord’s future. For most of the early 2000s, the topography of Kanin Fjord, made the cost of new developments too expensive to be financially feasible. Additionally, the old village had limited resources that were already strained with the town’s existing population. Two years ago, however, this began to change. Skyrocketing prices of Atlantic shellfish contributed to the continued prosperity of the town’s fishing industry throughout the Great Recession, providing the town with a significant amount of funding. The influx of cash allowed Kanin Fjord to invest in various upgrades to the town’s municipal and utility infrastructure. Over a two-year period between the Spring of 2007 and July 2009, Kanin Fjord either reconstructed or upgraded the following facilities: New police station. New fire station with ambulance dispatch service. New water treatment plant with three times the capacity of the old treatment facility. More than doubled the capacity of the town’s school along with adding a much-needed gymnasium to the school. Additionally, providing a school bus service for students. Not only were the new town services able to handle the current population, but the new facilities were designed to handle predicted future increases in the town’s population. This placed significant downward pressure on the cost of developing the town by raising the land values to a point where new construction could now be profitable. Difficult topography was no longer a significant hinderance. Good Riddance to Bad Clams Constructed in 1993, Clam Shacks, were tight-spaced units designed to temporarily house immigrant fishermen during the fishing season. They were small 525 ft² three-room units with only a bathroom, kitchen, and bedroom. Over the past 16 years, they’ve become a blight on the old village and now permanently occupied. Rundown, minimal floorspace, and unsanitary living conditions led the city to condemn the buildings and relocate the tenants. Tenants had their leases bought out and were forced to relocate by the city. Kanin Fjord did assist in their relocation, however. They were given three choices: relocate to new housing in Tore Punkt at the same rent rate, sign a lease at a higher rate for new apartments that would be constructed after the clam shacks were demolished, or be given a cash payment towards relocation. Most ended up relocating to the new housing in Tore Punkt; however, some did move out of town. In the end, the unsightly buildings were torn down and their former occupants were living in much better conditions. Before and After Shots The Old Village. In the second picture, you can see the addition of several city blocks and the new fire and police departments. The Old village center at the center top of the screen. The old fish storage warehouse was demolished and replaced with a new tunnel under the old village. This is part of Sleipnir Bridge project. New school additions including a gymnasium and now providing bus service for students. New fire and police departments. Kanin Fjord now has an ambulance dispatch service. New water treatment plant. This new facility has three times the capacity of the old plant which was essentially just a giant septic tank. This new facility treats wastewater, making it safe to drain back into the ocean. Kanin Fjord’s Eastern-most coast. The north port is visible in the upper right, and south port visible in the center top of the image. Two new blocks added to the old village. These included dozens of apartments and new homes, along with roadway improvements to the downtown blocks. The eastern end of Villaveien The western end of Villaveien . New apartments which replaced the Clam Shacks. The Kanin Fjord Peninsula The old village on the left, and new municipal complex on right. North-South aerial of the Old Village. Old Village Center at night. New housing provided for the former Clam Shack residents. These new cabins feature more than double the floorspace, a full basement, and a half story sleeping area, for the exact same rent rate as the clam shacks. The catch was a further distance from the town center, and a long walk between the parking lot and the cabins.
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I suppose this is a bit of my followup to my post "Strategy per difficulty." I explained my strategy of building a "neighborhood unit," then giving it the basic services of water, power, trash collection, and fire protection, but leaving other services such as education and healthcare out (I will call this my "non-serviced city". I then started putting in education/healthcare when the "non-serviced" city reached $1,000,000("serviced" city). When I finished the "non-serviced" city and unpaused it, the mayor rating was quite low, just 2 green bars, but was making a profit of $5K to $6K per month. After I put the services in, the mayor rating shot up to at least 5 or 6 green bars very quickly, but the profit was only $500 to $1,000, even after fine tuning the funding for the hospitals/schools. Since that time, by building new neighborhoods, I have built the profitability back up to over $5,000 (which means to me that I have to look at increasing city services or perhaps cutting taxes), but I have to wonder something. I wonder if I had kept my "non-serviced" city running for 50 or 100 or however many game years, if the mayor rating would have dropped further, perhaps even down to the red bars, and people/businesses would have started leaving the city, thus eroding the tax base, and eventually getting to a place where it loses instead of makes money. However, after I had put the services in, if I had let the city just run for however long, if it would have been in a better position to maintain the money it was making, and perhaps even growing a small amount. The growth would have come not by zoning and developing more land, but by some of the citizens moving from R$ to R$$ or even R$$$ residents. I don't think it ever would have gotten back up to the $5k that it was, but I think it was in a position to be maintained and even increased a little in the "serviced" city, but was not in the "non-serviced" city (which might even begin to be abandoned eventually). Brian Christiansen
