[HELP] City Park Development Plan

[MN121MN]

So, I'm posting another help again, but this time, not with the dams (figured out how to make it work, now running with 4 constantly working dams). I've always wanted to do this in Cities Skylines, and currently, I'm stuck on how to approach this.

I'm planning to build some sort of "old city administration center" in the middle of the city, and I'm planning to build a large "central park" (preferably plaza, but beggars can't be choosers) right in the middle, but I'm kinda stuck.... since maximum park size are 16 x 16 (the tiles are 18 x 71, I've counted), then I would need to build the roads manually (I don't mind doing this). That being said, I don't know how to approach this.

Here's a top view shot of the barren land (yeah, it's going to be connected with the other parks; and yeah, my road network's ugly, first city ).

Any thoughts?

 

[Dizman7]

Loving the idea! Really like your little parks you made at the bottom so far.

I want to do something like this but haven't alotted the space for it yet, ha ha. I've only done a few neighborhood parks/green areas and I usually like to put a buffer zone between my zoned areas and main roads.

But anyway, not sure how much help I am. I think if I did, somewhere in the middle I've have a bridged road go straight across. And maybe 1 or 2 other small roads across it (on at the top and one at the bottom) that aren't straight. Like maybe, connecting right to left, have the south most road go and curve down and connect to the southmost road on the left. Then the north most road on the right cruve and connect to north most left road. Then the middle right go straight across. As for paths, I think maybe I'd try some roundabouts or one central one maybe. In all the neighborhood parks I've made I've only used dirt path and never have any straight lines in them.

Not sure how helpful that is, but there you go!

Look forward to seeing the end result!

 

[JohnnyFactor]

I sometimes use dead end roads that lead into the area so parks can be built within large spaces, without it looking like another city block. It also limits traffic to park-only cars.