SimCity 4/Zoning and Demand

Zoning and Demand are very important in your city.

On the bottom-middle on your screen,you will see the "RCI demand bar".

There are 3 types of zones

Residental:This brings in the people or sims in your city.Residental is the most important zone in sim city 4.Residental is green when not built.Houses have a commute time to get to their commercial or industrial jobs(See below).This means the time to get to the job.Short commute houses want their jobs very close to their homes.As time pass,you get new houses.Ranch houses and small apartments go the low zone.The tall and 2 row story houses belongs to the medium.Leaving behind,the very tall and skyscraping hotels in the high zone.

Commercial:One of the 2 jobs for the sims.This zone is the king of jobs.Unlike residental,they attach to the blue side.Also different is they have the number of jobs held and unheld while residental holds the people living in the building.This is also important in the city since you get a fewer jobs for people without the commercial jobs.Note:If you have enoguh people,jobs and other things,you might get bonus buildings which is the skyscrapers.They hold more jobs then the lower buildings.

Industrial:One of 2 jobs.They are like commercial but they have 3 differences:Yellow in color,freight trips and cause air and water pollution.Since it causes air pollution,you can neither avoid it or put in parks or trees or get the "Clean act program" from city ordinances.Freight trips means how long it will get to the houses.It also holds jobs.The low zone belongs to the farms.Farms cause heavy water pollution,medium or dirty industry cause extremeness of air and water pollution while hi-tech industry have lower air and water pollution.

Those were the 3 zones for your city to grow.