Keeping up with industry demands and keeping evironment and pollution in check

[justinrpg]

I have had a very bad habit since the first sim city on SNES not to put very many industrial zones in my city because I worry about pollution... hence in Sim City 4 making my cities and regions screaming for more industry jobs... is there any good way to keep up with industry demands and keep sims happy with the environment and pollution (especially in large cities) I am pretty sure you need at least as many Industrial zones as there are commercial zones, but I am afraid to lay enough because of pollution...

[jmyers2043]

Education = R$$$ Sims = High Tech industry demand which does not pollute too much.

Nevertheless, water purification plants will keep water supply pristine if you have some heavy industry. Also the SimGoober Air Purification facility will keep a huge chunk of a large cities air clear. 

I am pretty sure you need at least as many Industrial zones as there are commercial zones,

Not necessarily. R$ Sims with low or no education will rather work on Farms, Dirty Industry, or CS$

Highly educated richer Sims will rather work in commercial service or commercial office buildings but there will always be a need for a small amount of industry. Even in a well developed highly educated city. Basically I keep an eye on my industry. I'll demolish a tract of heavy industry when I query the lots and see there are few Sims employed. The lot will redevelop into I-M or I-HT both of which pollute less than I-D.


- Jim

[A Nonny Moose]

You can move or place your dirty industry in an adjacent city tile and use neighbor connections.  This can be of serious benefit with dirty power plants supplying power to a cleaner city via a neighbor deal, and water can come to the industrial city from the adjacent clean city.

Garbage is also best handled in the dirty city.  Whether you run this city after you get all this working is moot.