Why Cactus County got so big. Also I'm asking how can I stop its expansion?

dogforcerecon

I don't like confrontation but I feel I need to explain how Cactus County got to be its size. First of all it isn't just me that builds there in fact most of it is built by other players who I let build on my plot and that is why it started growing so big in the first place. There is at least five people that contributed but people come and go so you can see the changes over time. Most of the large buildings were built by them. I built Mojave City on the southern half of the ring road. Not even that area is just my build as it was worked on by three people. Not a single one of these areas is really one person but more of a community. The area was built away from everyone and I figured I don't really care what people build here so why would you guys care since it is faraway from the mainland and I couldn't dare douse creativity from the builders here. I just figured let people build creatively. I designed many of the towns I will admit but the reason they sprawl so much was because of you guys. You wanted denser builds so we put density laws up but I'm not going to force all our old builds to adhere to them since people were building the old way first so I sort of tried my best to refurbish these older buildings to fit your needs and pushed newer buildings north and west where there could be more density since the older buildings could no longer fit that.
These areas are the main problem now a days. If you guys would have set a land cap earlier and if you guys would have given instruction on how much interior a house needed we would not have been in this mess. I take responsibility for my actions but I had no idea about your rules on this despite having searched the forums and wiki for hours. Also it's not like I intend to force new players off of this land actually quite the contrary I like to build cooperatively and despise that idea. In fact the reason it go so big was because of that, when you have many people on one build you have a large amount of land. You may have one person build Oranjestad so the build has a lot more ease and regulation to it while also taking a lot less area. We have 5 people and many contributors so not everything is agreed upon on what is expected. Please give me more direction next time and if this comes off as rude I don't intend it to be.