So, my town rating was the great galloping grasshoppers one, but now I have "I think it's riding the so-so rails! So average!" One. They say it says that I need more PWPs, but I have 11/12. What do I do to get it higher?
basically everything everyone else said. also hopefully this helps you.
Pwp affect citizen satisfaction in two ways they can either increase or decrease nature and livability points. The only really bad one is the garbage can that greatly decreases both and the illuminated heart only slightly decreases nature points. Though you can offset the decreasing points with the ones that do increase them yes.
Public Work Projects that affect Nature Points:
↑↑↑Greatly increase:
Flower Clock
↑↑Largely increase:
Flower Bed, Flower Arch, Wisteria Trellis, Rack of Rice, Circle Topiary, Square Topiary, Tulip Topiary
↑Slightly increase:
Solar Panel, Wind Turbine, Windmill
What you have happened to me as well. I used to have the 'amazing' status, but as soon as I started building more pwp's I lost it.
My theory is that there's suppost to be a balance between nature and pwp's, so building more pwp's means you're going to require more nature to maintain that perfect town status. Also, trees seem to be more effective for me in getting that rating up than flowers. The concept is easy though, just means that you have to plant more trees/flowers.