My Resident Services is really close to my airport :/

[Amandu]

My airport is like really close to my Resident Services and I don't know how to decorate it. It's a bit off-center so I can't really make a path straight towards it. Can someone help me? Here's a picture of my map:

 

[toenuki]

you could move the shops so they're like side-by-side just behind the services, and so you only need 1 path going straight

 

[violixir]

I had this exact problem. Instead of making a path straight to my town hall, I have a bit of a beach side road with terraforming and buildings that break the line of sight from my airport to my town hall. Since I have to walk along that road and then turn and walk up to get to my town hall (and I can’t just fully see it as I stand outside of DAL), the area feels a bit bigger, though I did have to sacrifice going too wild with my town halls decoration up front (I have a railroad that goes in front of it, so I ended up just decorating the front of my resident services area to look like a train station.

 

[Shyria]

Yes I also have my resident services a bit close and off center, so what I did is I have a path running horizontally from both airport and plaza and it connects both!
Then it goes on to residential areas/shopping district.

 

[IndiaHawker]

Ahh I saw a beautiful layout recently that had literally 5 spaces between airport and RS and they did something really nice with pretty lettering of their island name between the two - I THINK it was on the 'share your entrance' thread but I forget, I'll try and find it!

 

[Hay]

Hey there! I have a similar issue with my map and this is what I did:

the red line is how my path goes since mine are custom paths! They don’t show on the map :/

I drew a line on your map to maybe help? You would need to move a path over:

the lines is supposed to be straight and connect better lol sorry. Just my idea c:

 

[Opal]

Mine is too, so I'm not going to be making any fancy entrance. I just made a path and then decorated the sides with fencing, flowers and 2 streetlamps

 

[squidney]

hey! So since your R.S. is off center, from a design aspect you have to find ways to utilize that ! So I would recommend making a natural diagonal path from the airport to R.S. If you have a straight path from airport to R.S. it emphasizes that its off centered. So to play it down, make the path itself off centered too.

 

[Celes]

For people with off-centered resident services somewhat close to their airports, I've seen a lot of people create a path around like this:

Credit: u/BaskIceBall

imo it looks really nice and natural. Looking at your map, I think there's enough space for something similar if you wanted to do a diagonal path.

 

[bobthecat]

I like the idea of putting a bridge up so the arch of the bridge covers it like people before me have suggested. Another option is to just put a cliff up to cover the front of services and just improvise thats what I did and ended up with this but I do have a bit more room than you,

It’s funny because when I was selecting my map I looked for advice on TBT and everyone was saying the most important thing was to have your ra close to the airport so it’s easier to travel islands, luckily I kind of went with a map I liked and ignored advice ...

 

[Rokushi]

Hi! Here's a quick idea/suggestion for the paths. You could put some trees and a destination signpost right in front of the path leading to the airport, and maybe a little garden area with some benches or a fountain below the plaza. I hope that helps a bit.