How Growth Can Balance Budgets in Cities Skylines 2! | SB 2

Segunda Beach is on a mission to transform itself from for a quiet little coastal town into a vibrant, dense city pack with tourist attractions, hotels, and tons of transportation options.

While city leaders believe that building a passenger harbor is the quickest way to spur this kind of growth, they can't even think about major infrastructure investments until they solve the basic issues that the city has including traffic, budget issues, and rolling brown outs.

To solve these issues, leaders have devised a step-by-step plan:
1 - Growth quickly where infrastructure already exists
2 - Extract locally to boost the economy
3 - Invest in transportation.

In this episode, we'll follow this plan in an effort to build our way towards a budget surplus. We'll begin by adding new farms, an aggregate mine, and a forestry industry. We'll solve traffic issues by adding roadway capacity and building our first bus routes. And finally, we'll significantly grow the city to ensure that our tax base is large enough to support of our infrastructure.

I'll also show you a couple tricks to make vanilla farms and forestry industries look more natural, as well as how to build a church in your community.

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CHAPTERS

0:00 - A glimpse into the future
1:46 - Growing our tax base... cheaply
5:22 - Fixing traffic on the cheap!
7:54 - These might be the best vanilla farms I've ever made
12:50 - Let's (aggregate)ROCK and (log)ROLL!
15:33 - Church and a hike?
20:20 - Let's Grid it out!
27:40 - Life is Beachy
28:30 - Bad bus routes. Will Fix.
33:10 - Balancing the Budget
36:50 - City Tour
38:58 - Night Time

[CityPlannerPlays]

Y’all know this is heading to a poll on the community tab.

[PoplarPonderosa]

4:55 "pop on over to our power plant"
*pans over to lone wind turbine* 😅

[unroyalty]

This is giving me such Verde Beach nostolgia, I keep expecting you to pan the camera and see a fire burning in the background 🔥 🔥🔥

[VaingloriousGaming]

18:46 ok friends, how many episodes before CPP snaps and smooths that hill by the church? :)

[TT-ihxi]

Hello Phil, fellow city planer here! Since you removed Myrtle street you should rotate the high school’s sport field 90 degrees so it doesn’t cut in to the hillside as much. That would help to get a less steep slope and also allow for a drainage ditch alongside :)

[t.j.webster]

23:10 Houstonian here. When we need to keep our stadiums from flooding, we often surround them with ditches to redirect water flow, and put little foot path bridges over them. you can do this in vanilla with paths/roads to block the terrain brush from going too wild, and put a little set of flood control ditches around/near the high school

[leestoddart]

I vote for less smoothing. I think the side beside the church could be a retaining wall or even a rock face.

Where you have placed the sports stadium I suspect it should be raised somewhat - so the soil dug from the high side fills in and raises the low side. then some more moderate smoothing could be applied.

Loving your work.

[LiliDaviault-Campbell]

about playa de segunda boulevard : calling it segunda playa blvd would probably work better, the current name would translate to « beach of the second » or even « second-class beach ».. i’m sure the residents wouldn’t want to be called second class right?

[shanky-tknc]

I can already see some San Francisco-esque tram lines running through the city.

[howard]

"I'm sure the EPA would have an issue with this...but we're gunna do it anyway" lolol

[morganunraveled]

this series is off to an amazing start and bringing so much comfort. very reminiscent of Verde Beach! I found you from the Verde Beach series during my pregnancy almost 3 years ago now and binge watched hundreds of hours of it while on bed rest, to the point where I’m pretty sure my son recognized your voice when he was born. flash forward now he is 2.5, when I put your videos on the tv and he will yell “TRAIN!” whenever he sees rail. thank you for making these videos and bringing so much joy and comfort to my/our lives!

[RedBear]

Re: Terrain Smoothing. My guess is communities with low rainfall and cohesive soils don’t bother, but the opposite conditions would call for more extensive erosion considerations. Phil, just do what feels right. At the end of the day, you gotta love your build, too! Wouldn’t want you to lose interest, cuz then we couldn’t watch over your shoulder. 😊 Edit: I just realized we can do aqueducts with surfaces!

[Jesusistheking]

"Back in the green again " touchs it immediately, turns red

[viceroni]

As a resident of San Luis Obispo County, this geography is spot on for Morro Bay. Great job

[JojowBR]

I think an exposed slope, like a scar on the earth, is beautiful? Of course not. I think it's realistic. At least, that's how it is here in Brazil. When large-scale earthworks are done for roads or construction, some slopes remain unfinished. Whether it’s to avoid encroaching on private property, reduce costs, or for other reasons, it’s common here. Leaving the slope exposed sacrifices beauty for realism. That’s it, my friend.
But you're the one playing. We LOVE watching you play. If you want everything neat and perfect like a fairytale, go for it! I adore how your grids are so organic and resemble real cities. They’re not all straight and perfect like Barbie’s town... That’s just who you are and how you play. I’m fascinated by realism. When it comes to slopes, you prefer beauty, and that’s okay. Be happy because you bring us joy in your own way.

[ubiquitousbear]

That view from the top of the trail near the church looking at the “lighthouse” reminded me of being at the top of Lombard Street and looking out across to Coit Tower in San Francisco

[OnTheNerdySide]

Instead of the tiny roundabout at the forestry area, you could put in some alleyways that surround a small parking lot or even just a pavement or dirt patch that would suggest a parking lot or staging area.

[frenchfriar]

Thank you, Phil, for not grading away those sharper cuts.

That kind of landscaping, where you're moving so much dirt, is *really* expensive.

So it's really not done that often.

Especially not around here.

[Adrianithus]

13:15 There's actually quite a few quarries near where I live and I actually drive past one thats right next to a river on my way to work every day so I would think this is fine. All the quarries I see have large burms covered in fairly dense foliage blocking them from view from the road. Might be a detail to add.

[ellag.]

13:07 Mining occurred in Morro Bay for over 80 years as Morro Rock was quarried with explosives. The height map you used for Morro Rock is its current size, which is only 2/3 the mass of its original size. Most of the height remains intact, with the majority of the mining occurring from the sides. This mining was particularly disruptive due to the fact it is a nesting site for the locally endangered peregrine falcon and a sacred site to the native Chumash people. At this time, direct access to Morro Rock is restricted; only the Chumash are allowed to climb the rock twice a year for a diving ceremony.