Back to work. My jobs offered is about half of my residential population, so hopefully fewer people will be leaving Wistful Wild to get to work in the morning.
With a good look at my zoning, I can tell what I'll need to remove to put a highway straight through downtown. Anything facing that central avenue will have to go, either removed or rezoned to face side streets.
Pow. Avenues get onramps, roads do not. (They can, but I don't put them in.) I also zoned a little low-density residential and commercial between the original factory lot and my fancy high-tech lot; people have been putting low-income areas in high demand and the air pollution from being in a factory zone's shadow is a pretty good way to make a place unappealing to rich people.
Since I was working to fill in some space I had to make my lots kind of a wonky shape, so I filled the gaps with parks and stuff. Like usual. Here's a softball diamond, a tennis court, and a children's playground raising the local land value a bit.
I don't know why they complained about the unavailability of low-income houses and jobs. Everyone in Wistful Wild is
FREAKING LOADED. Median income is $70k!
Pollution is actually getting to be kind of a problem, since high-traffic venues generate a bit in the form of automobile exhaust. So with Dirty Industry in negative demand, I bulldoze the original factory area and see what pops up. Surprise, it's a lot of Manufacturing, which produces less air pollution and no water pollution. This is the result.
Hah! Caught it before you had to bitch at me!
I find this to be in hilariously poor taste.
So I ended up putting my highways in almost the same places as before, but this time they're somewhat more effective. There's a municipal airport on the far side of the highway, with some residential and commercial zoning near that. The residential zone demanded a new hospital and educational facilities. Closer to the bay, there's a commercial lot benefiting from the nearby beaches. And on the eastern edge, close to Hyrule, there's a major league stadium, convention center, stock exchange, and movie studio around... uh, around a bunch of empty commercial zoning. Hmm. You'd think a place between the highway and a major-league stadium would make an appealing place to open a store or restaurant.
Population is nearly 115,000, and the city is still in the black. Things are looking promising, but the lack of a University building is a puzzler. Average education level and income in Wistful Wild are amazingly high, and I can afford it, so why haven't I been offered a University?