Not In Industry Area!

[ej-mcd]

Any idea what mod is preventing me from placing anything inside the designated new Industry Areas. Even right next to the main building I am getting this message and am unable to place the farms around the main farm house. Same thing with the other new industries. It seems to make a tiny smaller district less than 1 tile larger than the main building and therfor negates me placing anything inside the rest of the district.

If anyone has any idea which mod is doing it, I would greatly appreciate the time saver over going mod by bod to figure it out.

[Imhotep]

Districts are areas of the map. A District that has been set to specialized industry does not necessarily need to be an industrial District - it could contain a mix of land use/zoning.

An Industries DLC industrial area is like an industrial park or a large manufacturing concern, with industry being its predominant land use. It can contain other land use if needs be, such as residential houses in an agricultural industrial zone.

So an industrial zone would be something that grows within a District.

[Itchypantz]

So. For anyone coming here for the same assistance that I was looking for:
1) Create an Industrial Zone using the Industrial Zone Tool, not the Zoning Tool.
2) Place your Specialization Main Building (Farm Building for Agriculture Zones)
3) Create the infrastructure inside that zone in order to feed your industry.

The Industry Zone simply permits a sloppy mess of random industry buildings and does not really expand. The DLC Industries provide more revenue and gaming strategy.

[MachinegunMagpie]

not his fault they made it overly complicated to do what should have been simple. There was no need to make it work the way it did.

[MachinegunMagpie]

1) use the map overlay called "Natural Resources" to see where your resources are located.
2) Create an Industry Area over the resource area and space your roads properly, the main industry building is large (9x11 squares). It pays place it early before placing all your roads.
3) Place your Specialized Main Building (Farm Building for Agriculture Zones, etc)
4) EXPAND the Industrial Area created when you placed the main building in order to feed your industry. This is done with the Districting Tools. It's a new tab called Industrial Specialization. Expand the very small industrial area that was created by the main building so that it covers the whole oil field, fertile area, etc.. that you are working.

The generic Industry Zone simply permits a sloppy mess of random industry buildings and does not really specialize. The Industries DLC provides more income and is a targeted group of industries that will spring up and will support one of the 4 specializations that the DLC comes with.

Note the changes I made to answers others provided, they are important to understanding where people are getting this wrong.