Industry area vs Districts

[Atophy]

Not understanding the difference between districts and industry areas I just had a city wide pandemic after defining a farming industry area and removing the farming district. Turns out regular industry and its polluting ways can fill your farming industry areas so you have to paint a district on it too, kind of a pain to keep it straight.

The industry that moved in polluted the water towers I had in the area and the entire city want belly up. I think its on the mend now but its going to be a rough trip on the budget.
Can the devs fix that up please ?

[kristofburger]

Fix what? Industries DLC stuff requires you to paint a separate industry area from the standard districts in the base game, and you plop buildings instead of zoning.

[CptJH]

Yeah, but I think what he meant is, that he was also zone industry in the area, but it wasn't declared as farming, so it was dirty industry?

[Morty Jhones]

You need to use one or other not both if you want to keep the zones and district boundries 'clean'

Remember to draw the district and the chose farming speshalisation, from tab 2,,BEFORE adding the actual zoning to avoid polluting the ground.
Buildings that are spawned by districts are never bigger than 4x4 blocks so you can pack alot in a small patch

I would suggest using a targeted industry district early on or in a small growing zone, as they are easy to set up and don't need much room ore cash to set up.

Later if you have room and the cash you can set up a Farming Industry area, which will take up more room, as area building can get very large, and can cost a lot more money but give better returns as you get any profet's as well as the ground tax's.

[Atophy]

Originally posted by CptJH:

Yeah, but I think what he meant is, that he was also zone industry in the area, but it wasn't declared as farming, so it was dirty industry?

That exactly, should be that anything under the specific industrial area should also be that type of industry rather than having to layer a district as well if you want to share space, the tool tip kinda alludes to that effect I think.
Managed to bounce the city back from the brink even better than before though, got some unique factories for forestry and farming with some adjusted policies putting me in the green pretty quick. Was 43k in debt, a bailout, and down to around 3000 people from over 11000 before it came back.
I've only been playing the game for about 3 days so I'm bound to hit more snags :P