Land & Public Works

Maybe "urgent" about the parcel availability at the moment. The Zindra-road-network have only 1 connection from North to South. This wont change with the new lands at the South-East and wasn't with the fresh rolled out at South-West. (see "Roads NorthSouth"). I suggest a "Underwater-Tunnel" connection between Chinstrap ... to the ocean-rezzzone on Linkous ... to the road at McFarren/Novarez ... to the town-road network at Wendersley/Donathan. (see "West enhancement"). At the moment the parcel on Chinstrap isn't shown as reserved, so it is a bit urgent! Part (1b): At the road end on Chinstrap, the road can gone East down to the ocean and go into a tunnel (glass-tunnel, as like on Belli - them look matching futuristic), making a turn to North and going tough the public land on Popke and Gatcharl. At Gatcharl the ocean turn to be less deep, so it can be digged into the ground (no more glass). Part (1b, too): At Linkous is a rezz-zone. This could be enhanced to a small, sandy island, where the tunnel gets back to the surface ... "Parking Lot", some beach deco, small pier (boat-rezz) ... and back down under water. The Tunnel can going in 45° angle trough Tashina and Nine (not as I drawing it) to turn then straight North at McFarren. Part (2b): At McFarren is a "Road"-parcel on the beach, but the Tunnel can get at the normal Beach back to the surface with a road up the Hill to the existing road. On the other side of the existing road it get back down below the water. Part (3b): The Tunnel can go North at Novarez, then 45° on Desantos to Conroy and turn straight up North to connect at Wendersley/Donathan to the regular roads. This concept takes just a small piece at the new Sims for a road (barely it mit work also "half-half" on the small stripe at Popke). The whole rest is all public lands and takes no additional space. It is adding a 2nd North-South connection. It connects 3 complete different roads and includes 1 rezz-zone. Also it adding 2 attractions: Tunnel-build ... and a new, small island at the rezz-zone.

There are 6 places around the Gaeta V continent which have very narrow pinch points, and whose protected waterways run too close to region corners and private parcels which are hazardous to a smooth sailing pathway around the Gaeta V continent. These 6 places can easily be fixed without expensively creating any new regions, or affecting Resident parcels near to these "pinch points". By luck or coincidence, there are 6 outer "spare" water regions further offshore which are not currently well used or essential to sailing around the Gaeta V continent. They seem not to be used often and could be moved inshore to improve Gaeta V's inshore coastline. The map I've drawn below features these 6 "spare" offshore regions (in turquoise) and where these "spare" offshore regions should be moved to (in red) inshore. Relocating these 6 "spare" offshore regions would ease and prevent the current inshore narrow pinch points and help to avoid hazardous narrow waterways and entering into Resident's private parcel territories. This would also make the Gaeta V continent more compatible for sailing larger "tall ship" style vessels around the continent too. I strongly suggest and propose that the 6 "spare" offshore water regions (Twelve Fathoms, Qoopz, Gaeta Reef, Christarn, Sciello and Unquar) be treated as "donor" regions and relocated to these 6 new inshore positions.

Zindra is a wonderful continent to boat on but there is no way to circumnavigate it. In particular, the south east corner has private land upto the world and and some of the land owners don't allow passage. Navigable water, shown on the areas marked on this screen shot https://gyazo.com/ffc3fbe6e2610a7109dd52e8cd164d72 would provide passage. Also on the south east and east sides. https://gyazo.com/b98159452cccbda561c9cdbd5bd8ad18

There are _many_ instances of 4-way region crossing (i.e. corner of 4 regions) that are inconveniently located on Linden Roads. These spots will very frequently destroy the vehicle, not only when the vehicle hits the "corner" (sending all entities -- vehicle & sitters -- every which way), but also when avoiding the corner because now the vehicle must face a back-to-back pair of crossing (e.g., crossing to the East, followed by crossing to the North soon after). While a solution is being sought to alleviate the crossing issues for good, I propose that for instances of this monstrosity (i.e., corner crossing smack-drab in the middle of a Linden Road), at least 2 Rez Zones need to be carved, along the general direction of the road. This will help reduce the painful experience of having your vehicle break apart and then having to walk a loooong way just to find a Rez Zone. This I think is a better compromise compared to the other Canny ticket about making the whole Linden Road area to be Rez Zones. (This one: https://feedback.secondlife.com/ldpw/p/make-linden-roads-rezable-for-easier-vehicle-recovery )

Zindra roads look ike ice or glass and it's quite terrible. I'll be glad to volunteer for this if need be.

I think that there should automatically appear a 1 sim navigable waterway around any land of the mainland. When mainland expands, the buffer 1 sim waterway should expand with it. This way, naviable waters are always available. If two lands join, elimating a waterway, it should appear in the closest edge to that lost one, making sure to provide a route around the lost waterway. Thanks!

There are a couple of swaths of blank or close to empty sims in the Corsica network. I feel like they could benefit from having a road go through them. The areas circled in the picture are the ones I mentioned.

I am very happy to hear that Zindra will be expanded and that new waterways may be opened along the southern border (please do that). I've made this request before https://feedback.secondlife.com/ldpw/p/add-navigable-regions-or-channels-to-zindra and glad it is being tracked. However, Most of the available land is held by land barons who are either jacking up prices beyond the reach of most players OR slicing up the sky with sky boxes that are ugly, impact ground level dwellings with shadows, and add load. It is likely the land barons will gobble up the new land on Zindra exacerbating an already overpriced market. While I understand SL gets their tier each month it would be worth exploring ways in which the new land is available only to users and land barons that are speculating and stacked sky box rentals are prohibited. I am proposing governance somewhere between the strict rules on Bellisaria and the free for all of Mainland. For example, Land can only be sold for what it was purchased for. If its sold at $1L per SQM, then speculative pricing would dissapear and might have a depressive impact on land pricing elsewhere on Mainland. Prohibit rentals. This would encourage land owners to use the land they bought to live on, put a business or or some other purpose than slicing it up into bits vertically and horizontally. After accommodating the residents of Gaeta 1 who might want a parcel on Zindra, allocate some portion of the land to residents as a Linden Home without the strict covenant. Users can choose a 1024 or 2048 parcel as part of thier membership. If you must allow land barons, then prohibit prims below 1,000m above the ground to reduce the impact on neighbors. For rentals, charge tier not only by the SQM but the altitude of the highest skybox. If a landlord can make 5x tier or more renting vertical space, why not take a healthy nibble of that revenue. Vertical rentals are lost revenue for LL. Those are just a few ideas and there are others, but the point is to encourage users living and making a business on the new Zindra land and discourage or prohibit land barons buying up the land causing inflationary land prices which results in abandoned, unused land.

For this idea, I'm suggesting that 3-4 regions of abandoned mainland are built out as forest on each mainland continent. A 'real life' example might be something like a national forest found in the US. Each continent could have it's own theme for the forest (jungle, swamp, redwood, beachy?, etc.), and have trails/plants/flora/fauna. Each forest would have a small rez zone (so you can rez a bike or a horse or something). PROS You don't need to make any new regions. Claim 3 to 4 regions in areas that are mostly abandoned. Every mainland continent has spots like this. You add instant real estate value to all of those parcels near the new forest that didn't have any value before - a 'protected Linden Forest view' on the mainland would be awesome. Volunteers could build it. The precedent has already been laid for volunteers to build large scale events/projects in association with the Mole and Linden teams. I am confident that a call for volunteers would yield an amazing a list of mainland loving builders. Cost to build it would just be whatever time is needed for the Linden / Mole to keep an eye on how the builder team is doing. CONS I have no idea how you'd 'sell those parcels' near the forest in a fair way, but I'm sure there are lessons learned from 'the old days' about how to release new land for people to purchase etc.

Please Develop Abandoned Land and place out Regions in and around Bellisaria and mainland with Activities and large parks for residents to take part in. hang gliding, Surfing, Hiking, Skating, Bowling, horseback riding the list is endless. while both areas have some they are usually small endeavors second Life has been on a decline in public spaces with activities in recent years. we as residents need activities to do and that will also attract the new comers. you could also collab with existing creators to set up some of these places.