Tying up Loose Ends | Vanilla Cities Skylines | Verde Beach Ep. 44

hello welcome back to city planner place where we are building the city of verde beach and in today's episode we're going to focus on tying up lots of loose ends before we start building across the river and i wanted to show you a little something that you may have caught in the last episode if you were really paying attention and that is i've brought an asset into verde beach so one of the really neat things that happened recently is that i had someone reach out to me on the discord server definitely sleeping and mention that they were making some billboards that i could use in verde beach and clearwater county and so they put together a neat pack and i'm going to share it in the community tab and i'll have a link in the description of this video so there's a couple of different billboards some of which they made and some of which they received from tyler hunt aka lauren j burner on the discord and these are wonderful looks so this one you know we have this one that says morning mulligans with phil love it and this one that says noisy neighbors why not try eminent domain so we have a couple of others as well and i want to go through those quickly [Music] so we'll place one here for now another one right here another one right here we're going to move these but i just want to take a look so this one just says take your place in the sun verde beach this one just the stylized verde beach logo very cool this one right here a vacation so nice you won't need a mulligan and this one another verde beach logo then over here don't forget to like subscribe and leave a comment that one's kind of dark but i think that's mainly due to the location i placed it and let's move it [Music] don't forget to like leave a subscribe and comment and then this one it looks better most of the time i'm not sure what's going on but uh i think we might actually add this close to the university there we go it looks like uh the sunlight's hitting it just right here don't sleep on your education and then uh we obviously need to move some trees so we can see that you shouldn't forget to like and subscribe to the channel so i like i love these these are these are wonderful so these are easier to use with move it one of the one of the struggles is you have to be able to plop it on a roadside so you can see if i want to try to plop this over here it's just not gonna work a way that we could get around that would be to do something like this so we could draw a line on the side of the highway oh that's not gonna work i thought i thought that that would work how about this there we go so now we have it on the side of the highway without move it there is a way to make it happen take your place in the sun and then verde beach could also put that in the center of the highway that would look that would look really slick too so got a couple more of these that i want to move around then i will talk about exactly what we're going to do today so this one right here a vacation so nice you won't need a mulligan this one makes a ton of sense in my opinion right at the airport actually we'll move this the other side of the road so you see it oh it's the wrong side of the billboard that's okay we'll have it right here they'll still see it on the way out of town and that's what i'm hoping for we'll get rid of a couple of trees to clear the view perfect so if you were here you would see that okay so the other thing about that those is that they're part i mean they're park assets so if you do get the pack they'll be in the park assets and plazas um but different things on either side very cool and thank you so much that that's the community going above and beyond and i really really appreciate that so the types of things we're going to take care of today are a few fold so it's not necessarily naming i'm going to get to that soon but i want to take care of some of these zoning issues first when we get to naming i think that the way that i'm going to do it this time i'm going to go through the the patreon supporters and choose some names randomly and rename some of these streets you know there are other ways to do it but i i'd love to to kind of pay it forward there so i appreciate them and i'm going to show my thanks um in the future i do want to set up a a form that we could use to to get names so what we're going to do today we're going to focus on filling in some of these areas where we need zoning so you can see that there are a ton of areas where i just haven't finished zoning haven't completed the roadway network there are more connections that could be made we're gonna make those connections today and fill in some of these areas other thing that we're gonna do thinking about the university so if you go in and we take a look at what we've done we've unlocked buildings now that we've never placed so i want to go through make sure that i have all of these different unique buildings placed like for instance the chess club i don't think i have a chess club on campus so the buildings that i can place on campus i'm going to place him there and so let's see it's like the chess club the media library i think we have so i think it's the chess club the statue 2 and then the school of science now if you look this is a monster building there's no way i'm going to fit this in here it's kind of unfortunate that this is how it is but i think it opens up an opportunity the opportunity is oak garden could be an offshoot of the university we could potentially get this over here as long as we can make our campus area extend over here so imagine oak garden being a laboratory for the university not just um you know associated with the university like the sterling zoo sterling family zoo where there's a close association in thai there for this that nature preserve is going to be the university's nature preserve it's going to be off it's going to still be in the city but set off on its own a bit and i'm going to place the building there and we're not going to develop this yet we'll we'll get there i promise that's going to be shortly after we cross the river the other thing i want to do i want to take a look at this madness that i set up here because i think that we can do better one of the things that i forgot when i placed this extra metro station here was that we have some really awesome assets that came in the most recent uh trains and and bridges uh content creator pack and i don't know why i didn't think to use it here but if i use that here i could have these two lines meet up and the other thing i want to do is look at some other forms of transportation so we have for instance at this metropolitan airport we have the ability to use helicopters but we haven't done it yet so i want to to work that in we also have blimps i'm not quite ready for blimps so we're not going to go there just yet but this is one thing that i do want to give a shot to so i think we're going to start i want to start with some of the changes around the university and i think the very first one is going to be related to metro but before i forget one other change so it was pointed out that i've made a mistake over here and that is that these two lines are still conflicting now i heard that i can move the stop if i hit either control or shift okay and after fiddling around with this and doing a little bit of research i see that it's actually not possible to switch the side of the train station unless you have the multi-platform enabler mod which is where the shift functionality comes in so if you have that mod you can separate these two tracks you can see that the yellow line appears to be doing what i wanted to do anyway which is kind of funny but i wanted the blue line to pop up here either way it's working so maybe i should just let good enough be good enough anyway so we are going to do something better over here because we have this kind of mess of train tracks uh metro tracks rather so the content creator pack is where we're gonna find an asset that suits us a little bit better so this sunken bypass metro is likely the best choice for us uh that said it is large it's very large so i don't know that that one's gonna work perfectly [Music] maybe this dual sunken metro will work a little bit better let's take it out of here and see yeah it's just it's kind of tough the way this fits in we might be able to make it work like this it's just kind of wonky so i think we're going to try the sunken dual platform and just see what happens i cannot promise that this is going to work i might need to come back to what i had before but you'll never know until you try okay so now i've reconstructed the roads and the zoo and you can see that it was a lot of work so i basically had to completely rebuild green away so actually i'm not seeing my road names on okay so now i have road names down we just want to make sure that we don't inadvertently lose this so green away is correct now so this all got moved the nice thing is we're able to kind of center some of this stuff up it's not perfect but it's pretty darn good especially in comparison to what it used to be like now our main consideration is going to be all of these metro lines coming in here so we're gonna need to clean those up so let's do that real quick okay i think that we are in a good spot with those we just need to get all of our stops relocated okay so i think i have these in a mostly good location i kind of would like to separate the yellow and green lines though or yellow and and white lines although there might be some synergy and having those occur at the same location uh we're gonna we're gonna actually separate those so what we have now is the brown line on top the yellow line being the through line the brown line will intersect there and then the white line on the bottom so hopefully this clears things up and makes it a bit more legible and it is a really neat looking asset through here something to be able to see as you walk in the side here i do think that we need some sort of fence we don't want lookie lou's to come and you know for some reason decide to look down there and fall so i would assume that the university is going to be very conservative in that way and as a result here we go okay so it it now you can walk right from the university down here get to your destination and look at all of these people let's just make sure that it's working as it should and it looks like it's it's okay i think that we want to take a look now it's it's tough you know i don't want to take too much from what i'm seeing right now and just you know assume that everything's broken because it might just need to clear its cue whoa there are some things happening right here wow so that is in the tourism district lots of people getting on getting passed that's not good um well i think we just might have to crank it although you can see maybe i shouldn't get too crazy because there's a whole bunch of vehicles coming and this is one of those things where if you start making too many adjustments at once you can see that you're going to make mistakes now i see that there are just a ton of vehicles that are mostly not full with a empty station right there so you can imagine some people are gonna get off at this station these vehicles are gonna you know 25 50 it chips away at it it's not loading up quickly which is kind of the thing i'm noticing people are certainly going on but we've got a lot of capacity so something to keep an eye on but maybe not the problem and ultimately what i'm most interested in is we take a look right here we're okay we're okay right here so um let's see truthfully now that i'm looking it looks like things have mostly calmed down i don't even need any further investigation i think it's just i know it's okay so we're gonna leave this that's a good improvement in my mind so i think we're done with metro uh for the time being there's certainly always more that could be done though but what i want to do right now is focus on some of this some of the zoning in this area so there's not going to be a ton that we can do here you know we could we could get really fiddly with this and try to snake a road back here not really worth it i think what's what probably makes the most sense would be to have focus on path connections in certain areas and just fill in our zoning because i think that we've invested enough in infrastructure that there's not really a lot else that we can do so right here for instance i think that there's value in having a pedestrian connection all the way behind here connect right there and then turn our angle on come back here i would have strongly preferred to not decrease the density there but it's okay we can we can deal with a little bit of that no we can't there we go that's better just it's one of those things where i think i'm going to be okay but after i think about it a little bit longer i realize no i'm not going to be okay i can't i can't accept that now on the thought of pedestrian connectivity before we start developing this i want to think about the pedestrian connectivity i'm going to need city services i might need and not need to demolish everything to make all of that happen so in reality you're not gonna have a do-over you know you might wish you had a do-over but you're stuck with with what you have so let's get these path connections in now while we have the opportunity so that was a really important connection there i think or it has the potential of being one uh one thing i'm noticing is we really still lack connectivity roadway connectivity through here so that was kind of a missed opportunity if we don't have that we probably should focus on transit let's get back to this area for a second after i fill in zoning here so we our rci meters are in a wonderful place let's look at our our our utilities yeah we gotta get some water pipes and we gotta fix the ones that are no longer underneath the road just in places where they don't belong [Music] okay so i think now we are completely covered so let's look at our existing zoning in this area so you see over here we have a lot of industrial for some reason we missed the spot there probably some historical artifact and then we have some of these areas over here where we could probably have office or something of that nature that would fit really well back here maybe even look at some of our unique buildings yeah i don't want to just throw these back here which is what i would ultimately be doing so what i think we're going to do is just kind of leave this we will have some spur roads and cul-de-sacs to fill in back here let's go and do what we know we're going to do right off the off the bat so i think coming into verde beach we don't want a corridor of density so we're going to keep everything fairly low density along this corridor and use commercial it's kind of the buffer between the residential and industrial uses and everything else so now i'm going to take a quick beat because i i think i almost made a mistake and that mistake is as i'm going through here just zoning up a storm totally forgot about my path connections so again targeted path connections where they make sense where they shorten up block lengths where you have these mega blocks so right here hills uh hillside street terrible name and keller house these two that's like a double block so if you could have a pedestrian sneak through even though we don't have a crossing here they might be able to get to the front of one of these buildings over here so there's still value in that connection and you shouldn't skip it so same thing right here actually this is another prime example of that why not have a connection here so that people could get to the monorail station so here they are at the monorail station because we gave them a an opportunity to be at it so let's finish up our commercial zoning along this corridor and then along main here we're going to extend the previous zoning which was commercial and kind of fill in this entire area this was a commercial node and i think that we have most of what we want for commercial now one of the interesting things is is glade street and that's not right so station road hunter street right there we'll extend station road all the way to this hunter hunter street loop i might rename this this will be hunter court or hunter crescent probably makes even more sense so i've always kind of envisioned this to be a more commercial or industrial type corridor and industry doesn't make sense anymore but this i might actually have this be an office corridor at this point i think that that makes a ton of sense you have uh this you have this station here providing a ton of access uh to the rest of the city not really a desirable place to live clearly maybe we'll have a couple of pockets of commercial in here as well and we absolutely need to divide up our block lengths here this is this is way too long even though this doesn't really matter we're going to do it anyway because it would allow people who are walking to get to the front of the other streets and that is a huge help i think we should probably do the same thing over here before it develops and we're kind of stuck right here with what we have right here we can certainly add a connection and i'm gonna turn this into a kind of a mini tod i am gonna have a little a couple of residential uses here not not many but some and then over here we'll take it down to a lower density commercial use again the other thing we could do maybe i'll do this instead let's go through here we are going to create a small neighborhood [Music] so this will be keller house heights and the reason i want this here is because i want to have that height restriction i think i have it everywhere but over here i'm going to also create a neighborhood and i'm going to remove that height restriction so in the tod transit oriented development we will allow just a little bit more density this will be station heights and over here i kind of want to i want to look at the policies and really give this some thought so first of all there's no actually i could do something neat here so i could take no no i can't that's gonna ban heavy traffic but that's a bad idea because we do have some commercial there if we didn't i could ban heavy traffic which would make this at least a little bit quieter um but i i don't really want to do that so in station heights i want to have high tech housing we are also going to take a look at some of our other so our high-rise ban will get rid of that and i'm going to lower the tax rates here so i really want to focus on this as an area that gets developed quickly and we have a little bit more to fill in i think i might allow some development on station road now that we're further away from the train track it seems like it would be a more desirable place to live this is a little iffy but okay and we're gonna need some sound buffering back here so we're gonna need to be really careful with our zoning but for the rest of it i'm not all that concerned and really what i'm gonna do is just kind of go back here remove a line of zoning so i can add a landscape buffer over here we're okay we're gonna want landscaping along the highway too to prevent some of that noise from spilling over so this is another area where i think that we could potentially see some development in the future and maybe we i guess we do have that one local connection it's probably good enough interestingly we could see that we used to have this interchange here because of what the fences are doing and i think that we could eliminate that now this this opens up land for future development although a developer would have to buy out one of these land owners to make it possible and now that we've added vine street we also have some kind of crazy stuff going on down here [Music] and again vine is acting as a collector based on the way it's set up so i'm going to treat it like a collector we're going to have lots of commercial uses along this collector that's a good point something that i haven't really spent a lot of time talking about when is a local road a collector and when is it a or what is a two-lane road a collector uh you kind of see the way that this road is functioning it's collecting this traffic from the arterials and taking it into the local area so if you needed to get to myrtle park anywhere in myrtle park be it laden campbell street or mill street you're taking vine street no option you have to um so that i guess the other option would be jones street um so both of those are collecting traffic from that those that that arterial and that arterial i mean that's the road if you want to come into the city you've got to use it so that's kind of a really simplified explanation that deeper dive into it would be taking a look at access spacing which you can see we've got one two and then this and then this so there's not much access to this road uh the other thing that we would take a look at would be speed and i'd love if i had tmped i i would certainly increase the speed of vine a bit although we would really strode it up then which maybe we don't want to do having the lower speed is probably better for that that said i tell you what this would there be a speeding problem here because of the lack of junctions it would feel like you could go faster particularly if the roads were a little bit wider which you can see they are here because of the parking lane so ideally truthfully we would probably take this and remove that parking to try to reinforce that this is a road you gotta drive slower on so maybe it's not necessary in the game but it makes me feel better so that's why we're gonna do it so now we've got these things over here developing stuff over here is happening let's go over here so i talked about this being in in an office type area so let's solidify that now so i don't want to throw oh whoops wrong zoning so i don't want to throw zoning in here just because i can i think that that would be a place that would clearly not have zoning so i'm going to leave it the reason why it wouldn't have zoning is it's probably public right-of-way so we also have this decorative thing happening here at this weird middle street i think i'm going to deviate from that idea at least partially but i'm gonna leave it here there's a place for decoration and a place for uh place making and that that's the sort of thing that makes a place so we're gonna do the exact same thing here try to not disturb some of that existing landscaping and leave that behind so you can see this area is already starting to fill in and it definitely feels different than the rest of this area but i think it's going to feel you know better in a different in a good way so that was why we've done this and it will spur transit trips we're not really seeing a heck of a lot of passenger utilization here see we got five people on this train like that's pretty brutal and i think that that's going to change now that we've spurred some activity here so i do want to get some landscaping back here after we're done with that i want to move on to some other things so we've got our landscaping buffer might need to do more with that in the future but right now with all of the areas that we've zoned we are kind of hurting for demand that said no reason not to decorate a bit when we have the opportunity to do so so uh back here is another area where we could do two things all at once we could decorate and we could improve how this industry area is operating and i'm truthfully kind of surprised that i didn't add trees down this strip here so i might do that as well since i'm in the area [Music] so we're going to pretend that all of that monoculture happened at a time before you know contemporary arbor arborist techniques became a thing right now we would we would never want to plant that much of the same type of tree in one location the issues that you could see would be that a disease could come in and wipe out all of those trees at once especially if the species diversity is not you know this is especially if the particular trees that are planted are clones of one another and now this is not something that they teach in planning school this is something that your wife talks to you about a lot because it's her interest area and uh because of that whoa i've got a lot overboard i just got i got in the zone so you get in the zone you do some things and what i've done is create a fire hazard a dense forest protecting keller house from the dirty dirty dirty forestry industry the well-lit dirty dirty dirty forestry industry it is verde beach so we should have some palm trees you never know if a tourist is going to come down here and decide to check out the native industry maybe uh the lewis company actually has walking tours and that's what happens back here you walk you get to see all the palm trees from some of the palm trees you know and they talk about their palm tree farms yeah i like that now one thing i did not check and i'm going to pause it i talked a big game about making sure we have city services and then i just did nothing about it so we don't have a lot of need right now but we don't have a lot of coverage either which will be a problem in the future so even though our availability for schools is is quite good i'm still going to add a school to this area high school availability is less good so we definitely want to have a high school here we have an opportunity here i think to to have a fairly decent campus maybe not so i'm going to add this here and we'll add a park next to each of these by park i mean basketball court we'll use eminent domain in that house actually we won't no we will yep we're going to use eminent domain in the house i'm really sorry about that i i i didn't uh that was uh me forgetting a little bit of what my plans were uh we also want to knead up dog park obviously the developer has decided to sweeten the pot for the neighborhood and said you know what we're going to do here is have the very best dog park in all of verde beach and over here we're gonna have a large park for the school um so this will act not just as a well actually we're gonna do two it won't let me place it that drives me crazy so this street's just a little bit off this is one of those weird vanilla things where it just when i was shaking around i could see that it was okay with it at one point but most of the time it's not we're to place this across the street that's a terrible spot um but that is a vanilla limitation we're gonna have lots of parks here they'll probably use this one this one's actually the one that is intended for school use truthfully we'll just eminent domain again might as well uh keep that eminent domain train on track so we'll uh we're just gonna we're gonna keep going we'll move this over there and we're gonna pretend that this was a planning session planners got together and uh decided to to really think about this area and uh you know your first idea isn't always your best so and i think it would be really neat to have this high school with some forest behind it you know a kind of a laboratory for the students here so very very neat situation for them so we have some of these roads that we could be extending through so i want to take care of that now and the neat thing is you can see that by reusing some of these old names we're able to basically be in a spot where we only have one street name that we need to come up with in this area that's elk street and i think we're just gonna name it school road because there are two schools on it there we go and the needs of this area are served except for potentially healthcare so since this isn't a super desirable area anyway being so close to all these train tracks we're going to add in this back here that'll serve this area well and then we should take a look at death care too we're probably okay with death care and then the thing i always forget about is postal service now i think it's covered here but it wouldn't be bad just to kind of poke around a little bit how are we doing with postal coverage got some areas that are really rough including right here right on main street and this is an opportunity in my mind we will make sure that old verde beach has a post office is there anywhere else that we could sneak one of these in man our coverage in some of these areas is horrendous and i'll tell you the last thing you're going to use to do is use eminent domain for a post office unless you're in verde beach then we will okay i'm gonna i'm gonna leave it there i think i think we could we could certainly use more but there's more than we're gonna do on this coast at some point i've already sandboxed it and i don't want to get ahead of myself today okay so we've got our zoning filled in all except for here a little bit more that we could fill in here some residential could complete that residential block that was there we should be good i could zone along here we've got these this thick bunch of trees and i think that that you've gotta you know kind of make a compromise sometimes with these things so this is another area where what is the most logical here and i think it's clearly we're going to keep that in industry area so that said we would need a neighborhood area to keep this the correct industry and i think i want to avoid that so we'll just have some offices with their high-rise band back here these offices will serve the industry area anyway in uh in our estimation and some of these other industrial uh things that are happening back here so that is a good change in my mind there's just all of these little oddities here that i'm seeing with zoning they're gonna drive me batty so i'm kind of going through and as i'm scanning and seeing these things i just got i feel like i have to make a change okay so let's get on to our helicopters so helicopters here's the interesting thing that i'm unsure about and i i have not sandboxed this portion of the build so i want to have a helicopter stop there i want to have one near the university kind of in this area i want to take a look at the amount of space this takes up and i you know i don't want to have that right in the university yet it's kind of a tough build i might stick it back here and then you can at least use wow that is brutal that is brutal we're gonna we're gonna hide that with some landscaping because do not like how that looks at all it actually terraforms the cemetery okay that's at least a little better in terms of not destroying the cemetery okay so we've got this helicopter stop here i'd love to have one in the tourism area it's just it's really built out so unless we have it right on the coast there's not really an opportunity so i think we are going to add it right on the coast and then the part that i'm unsure of is does the airport act as a hub so we're going to find that out [Music] so i want to avoid going over the zoo if at all possible so we're gonna do some theatrics we're gonna have to go over the zoo a little bit i'm sorry that enclosure is gonna be so sad uh now we're gonna see if we can actually yeah i can't i can't construct the helicopter line so that tells me that i do need to build my hub my depot rather so we are going to place this over our in our industrial area it's a fairly logical spot to add this in in my estimation the problem is do we really want to get this near all of this equipment here i would assume that this would interrupt some of the frequency what is this taxes are too high whoops i wanted to actually give tax relief for offices not raise their taxes so they all develop these shiny towers here only to have them wow these are terrible that is not what i wanted at all so i am going to take this down a notch i don't want any huge towers popping up i think it's completely unnatural in this area you can't taper up to it which is kind of something that you should focus on um i was focusing on a corridor which is another thing to think about rather than blocks but just don't like the way this worked eminent domain to take down those towers because your building form is off so hopefully these master architects will remain at this uh at this level and i think that they're going to so i'm okay with some of these residential buildings getting bigger i just feel like those uh those office buildings get way too big way too modern looking way too crazy and i'm not into it so we're gonna we're gonna skip that okay so back to where we were helicopter depot i really don't like that location but i don't know that we have a ton of other options short of putting it way out here which might not be the worst idea maybe out here so this is going to be loading onto a cl really this is functioning as an arterial if i place it directly on there so what i might do is just add a local road over here [Music] i'm gonna make sure we have our city services over here and then power is also missing we'll name that street and then come in here and i think we need to connect this up to our route so we'll throw our angle back on and then i think what we're going to do is try to make sure that we're not interrupting what's happening with that tv station all that much and run this over here so now we can make our connections so the idea with this route was we'll get people from the airport to the university maybe you have some folks coming in from different countries representing different universities and they there's it's really timely that they they need to get directly to the university and the tourism district is thinking well maybe there's very wealthy people who want to get there so i don't know how that's going to work we're going to find out that's uh kind of an interesting thing to take a look at so we'll leave that for now and i think we're in a very good spot with that i mentioned myrtle park in the and some of the things happening here with buses before so there are two things i want to fix here so we have the myrtle park transfer point which it's great but i think that i made one mistake and that mistake is if you're thinking about buses and you should really be thinking is this just a city transfer point is it actually an inner city bus terminal and i think it's actually an inner city bus terminal and i'm going to tell you why in just a second so if you if you look at the location we have great access to the highway right here so as long as we had decent enough or as long as we have an inner city bus station here it would work quite well we have one down in old verde beach truthfully that doesn't make a ton of sense anymore uh it doesn't have freeway access like it used to you remember it used to be right on keller house and now it's not so i've added this in rotated around it's on florence street now we need to look at our bus routes since this is an inner city terminal we can move some of our local routes in there [Music] and now you can see all of this all of these routes meeting up in one location now the one thing i forgot to do last time when i was making the routes is i wanted to create an express route all the way to a high capacity form of transit so we're going to do that right here they'll be able to get off directly at where all of these stations are coming together and then ping right back here one seat ride nowhere to stop just to go directly there so i think that that is a huge improvement a big shout out to planner pete discord server patron uh patreon patron uh and an all-around good guy he is uh constantly uh coming up with great ideas and i really appreciate that there are other uh planners in the discord server that i can bounce ideas off from and and everyone else as well but uh having a place to talk with other planners is really fun for me too so so this is gonna make this a much more valuable facility and i really like the aesthetic too i think it's a neat looking facility so we have this other one over here this is the older and let's take a look it's cool too it's the metro inner city bus hub we're going to leave that there's no harm in having it there i don't think you would imagine that their value that you'd see in this one would be that university students could come here instead of going all the way over here and catching a bunch of transfers to get to where they need to go so last but not least let's take a look at our university as i mentioned we have a couple of issues there i don't know that i call it issues we just never leveled everything up the way that we could have so we're gonna deal with that now so first things first chess club that's an easy one we're gonna place this right near the aquatic center um it just fits and we're gonna have the uh the second statue over here as well with a nice view right here all the way to the uh the intersection of sepera verde and keller house and what i think we're going to do there is we're just going to leave it open and we're going to not zone here we should probably extend our university fencing over just kind of cleaning things up a little bit and then we'll get some landscaping in here to really uh really light things up in this area and we'll just i think we're gonna leave it there we'll well well no we we have that palm trees we'll line this with palm trees so you get a view you look through here you get to see the back of that statue perfect huh just what you wanted to see all right so the last thing we need to do is get our last building in the campus so that building is our school of science we're probably need some dorms to go along with this as well our media lab we've already got one of those just let me go through some of these buildings quickly to make sure we have them all interesting so i thought that we had a media lab here but we do not so i think i'm going to add a media lab here as well and that should clearly be on the main campus oh boy there is no place to fit this in maybe right here also trying to see if we have laboratories i don't think that we have we have the school of medicine and so i think we're going to take our laboratories as well and move those over we'll have a library over there as well so and then some dorms so we're going to just what we're going to do is extend our area over so we have our university campus area what we can do is just have a little tentacle it goes over here and what we're gonna do with this tentacle is just extend it over here and now we can actually remove this tentacle interestingly i think i use the wrong oh that is interesting so you can't have a campus and a park area in the same place and i guess that makes sense kind of except that we're doing that so [Laughter] all right so we have our campus area here so i think that we're going to formalize this by having some nicer roads coming up here and then i want to formalize this park as well we're not going to build it just yet but i am going to have a nature reserve main gate oh that is just the killer so we're gonna use some eminent domain because i want this gate to be perfectly centered on the road and i can't do it unless it's straight coming off here hopefully two tiles is enough let's see and i can't perfectly center it anyway so yeah well i guess you you make some choices sometimes not always good all right so we have this here you'll come up and you'll be able to focus on how this is not straight and it'll drive me crazy oh i hate that yeah i hate that so much that's gonna drive me absolutely bonkers but i'm gonna just try to ignore it so over here we we could just have some local roads this is gonna act as a local road but i think i still want to come off from here anyway we're not even going to do roads what we're going to do is do some of the university paths through here and the very first thing i want to place is the school of science let's leave one tile space for landscaping and it's it's good that this building is interesting on all sides four-sided architecture that's the way to do it and you know a school is definitely not going to skimp on that thankfully now there are a few other buildings that we're going to want over here so we're going to want our i think it would make sense to have a number of buildings so the laboratory over here it's tough to have a science building without a laboratory we're gonna want a place to study this this is really far removed from our other campus so i think we actually need to have a number of our campus buildings over here again but i do want to leave opportunities we're going to connect some of these roads up to our nature reserve in the future so i think we'll need another groundskeeping but we'll do that at the very end we don't need a gymnasium we will need a cafeteria to make sure people can eat i think a library again this is one of those buildings that we already have a library but you could imagine this library being focused on scientific literature not just a general purpose library then the very last thing we need are a few dorms over here so i think again we're going to leave that one tile gap just have a couple of dorms not anything not anything significant over here so a nice tight little campus and we're going to keep it like that now i am going to include some spur roads off from here spur pads rather and then i think we're going to fence this in to formalize this as the campus area but let's use a nature reserve fence here okay so some really putsy stuff here just wanted to make sure that we are uh really going to have a nice transition between these areas because it might not be an inspired design but i think that we're going to have a very very nice transition between the two of these so this is very utilitarian in nature and that is by design the idea is that we don't want this we don't want the design of this campus to overwhelm the purpose of the university in this area and to really overstate the the nature reserve uh or seem overstated in relation to the nature reserve so i am creating this this kind of network of nature reserve paths around here that is just to have a consistent end and now in the future when we go to connect up the stems will all be about the same line and i want to make this not seem like the most desirable way to get into the nature reserve let's look at our topography yeah there's not much here um i want to have a mini path to to kind of start that connection so i'm going to just do a little bit here because there's not much in the way of topography we're going to follow the little bit that we have just to create a unique trail connection a trail layout rather truthfully as i look at this connection here it's probably not all that necessary so we're gonna eliminate one of those connections and we'll use this as an opportunity for landscaping and we'll deal with this other connection in the future continue to do just a little bit here okay so you might have wondered why i'm using the lit pads and the main reason for that is because this is a campus area i think that the campus would prefer to ensure that their students are safe with a well-lit path so at night this will be illuminated but that's that's by design at least for the time being we'll see if i change my mind in the future and i think i'm just gonna continue one more so we've got a trail network through here and a lot of this is gonna just remain trail network we aren't currently going but let's resume and let this go add some landscaping into the campus area probably should get some water pipes underneath our roads though or our pads in this in this instance and this is right of way through here we're never going to develop a lawn between high and withers drive so we are completely fine with those remaining as they are and with the right-of-way or with the water pipes going right through there okay so down the line you can imagine more happening here and this being a more uh kind of a unique area i think it'd be neat to have a botanical garden in this area something that we make more than just that one building that that that is sometimes used for the gardens i do want to finish this up in just a second and the way that i'm going to finish it up is actually by taking this district and converting it to a green cities district i think that this would make a ton of sense being near this area to have a completely green district and we'll have some housing for the professors so along goby street we're gonna have some commercial same thing along vine the real vine not the fake vine that was on the other side of the city we'll have to fix that soon and we're just going to add a couple of areas with some residential development and you can go right from teaching at the university into the elder care facility if that's if that was your goal because we're over here thinking about this we should also think about child care or child health care we already have one so we're good there i think that this is a good improvement in this area we could probably zone this entire area out i think we're going to keep it within this boundary and this will be mostly university serving and our population hasn't grown a ton today but it's grown some and i think that we're in a better spot with the city as a whole little pockets of interest like this i think are really beneficial look at this we have so many university students in the city now our dorms not a lot of students here take a look at our campus in general it's very good it's very good so i like what the the changes that we've made today and i think it leaves me in a spot where i feel a little bit more comfortable crossing the crossing the river there were some other things i wanted to do with fairies um i think that that might fit better with some of the other plans i have um across the river over here up here it gets i got i got some ideas so i'm gonna leave that for the next one this is the final episode where we are limited to this geography over here we are soon going to be crossing the river extending our our reach into this island over here and i think it's going to be really fun but let's quickly take a look at how things have progressed today this neighborhood filling in looking good our tod density looking good we didn't get back here that's okay we'll get there at some point not doesn't need to be today we got our little pocket of office over here fits in well i think i think it it fits and uh in general i think the city has moved in in a good direction so so i realized that i made a couple of big mistakes and i want to fix those quickly so number one i never made a connection to the university so i think we're gonna make two of those that's a huge improvement number two i never showed you how successful or not we were with some of our new transit so first here's our inner city bus terminal 333 passengers a week that is pretty darn good we're up to almost 7 000 passengers a week on transit in total and let's see how we were doing over here what are you kidding me that is crazy i did not expect that uh so apparently our helicopters are very popular and everyone wants to fly on the helicopters so the more you know the more you know i don't know how to to look at this more though because i want to go into transit it's just kind of consider okay right here wow we have hundreds of people waiting you can only take 20 at a time okay we're gonna need to just crank this helicopters everywhere and hopefully this helps yeah i don't love the way that looks yeah that's uh a lot of people on these lines i guess this is very popular so hopefully the added the added uh number of flights will help i truly did not expect this to be this kind of popular this is wild just you know wow i guess it's all tourists though i mean it's 31 tourists over here yeah tourists everywhere so very good well we'll take it and there are just probably a line of helicopters flying out trying to get over here let's uh let's see helicopter depot yeah this looks absolutely crazy they're just one after another after another getting in here and flying away you can see the line of them that noise would drive people absolutely crazy well good thing the only people you can bug over here are the dead not a fun place to wait though not a fun place to wait all right we'll cut back to the regular video i'm gonna leave it here i really hope that you enjoyed this episode if you did please consider hitting that like button if you are not subscribed to my channel please consider doing so and if you want to be notified when i release new videos hit that notification icon i will give a huge shout out to my patreon supporters you can see their names here they help me improve the channel by upgrading my equipment and generally improving the way that i'm doing things and i want to thank you thank you so much for watching your likes subscribes and shares i help increase the reach of the channel and it is much appreciated um i'm gonna leave you with a brief city tour like i always do thank you so much and i'll see you in the next one [Music] bye-bye [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

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Length: 62min 3sec (3723 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 20 2021