Bay City was great but it was tiny and it is hard to acquire plots. Linden Homes are great and it is easy to acquire a plot but they lack a community around them. Why not combine these two to create a community focused Linden Home in the style of Bay City? A new Linden Home that focuses on infrastructure, local communities and new mixed and commercial zoning. I want to be able to locate my plot near friends or be able to drive or boat down to their home. These new homes should also offer the option for full creative freedom and optionally having space for a basement area and should have access to the same high quality content that Moles create to make their home fit into the neighbourhood. There should be a little friction to go full creative, it's a last resort thing, but it must be possible, in the same way owning a bay city plot is. The friction should be in order of priority: Linden/Mole Buildings prebuilts Content Creator Buildings Limited Creativity - Grass/Concrete platform / basic infrastructure Full Creative - Rip out the concrete ground, let them build a basement, let them build stairs/ramps down to the waterways, they have to take responsibility for being in-theme / obeying the covenant. New secondary markets should be opened for custom city buildings, with good Level of Detail , for people to sell to the premium users. * This would create an incentive for premium / premium plus * Unlike other Linden Homes, they are as compact as Bay City * New communities * Urban Residential, Commercial, Industrial and Mixed Zoning as available preferences * Look at how modern cities design retail streets and combine it with how shopping region events work in SL like fantasy faire etc. * A revamped Bay City-like project and renewed excitement for Second Life again * Commercial opportunities for stores * Strong Infrastructure - roads, trains, subways, waterways/channels/rivers, public airports, public sailing docks, user-owned airports (yes, invite the airport community over, existing airports should be vetted and approved to build and manage an aiport within this continent), user-owned sailing docks (yes, invite the sailing community in by vetting and approving existing dock owner), public GTFO hubs, user-owned GTFO hubs (could be self-managed due to the commercial zoning?) * Ability to customise and integrate into the strong infrastructure - options to have a dock in the waterway (part of the infrastructure would have an indentation so it goes into the plot), options to have a road intersection branch into the plot + access to the Mole road/dock assets. Ability to have freedom to design own dock instead of prebuilt or marketplace. * Economic activity should be supported and encouraged, maybe even marketplace category/listings, with content creator guidelines. (This should also go hand in hand with new LI algorithm to encourage good level of detail usage so content creators but don't over think it with auto-LOD algorithms, thats complex work, let the market work for you) * Linden Home Covenant with regulation for airspace and building height (the large premium plus parcels could allow larger building heights / less restrictions) and obeying the parcel zoning for the city block * Potential to easily create an interactive web app map that allows for discovery and exploration because all the infrastructure and zoning is known
