Can you disable zoning on a certain road?

[big tony]

I have a main road then behind it there is a sort of alley road but they keep wanting to build on the alley, can I disable zoning or do I need to wait for a mod?

[MWRGaming]

use paths to block spawning

[Rhaane]

You can custom draw the zoning area and not just select the whole thing. Its one of the zoning tools. So with that draw in all the area BUT the squares that touch the back alley. The buildings will then be smaller and face the street you want.

[banzaimonkey]

Originally posted by MWRGaming:

use paths to block spawning

To expand on this, this is referring to the Path tool under the the third tab of the Landscaping menu (the Shovel icon). If you draw a path parallel to a road it will block the zoning squares that appear next to that road and zoning squares from other roads will fill in their places. Once you have zoned the area you want, you can remove the paths.