I just want to start off by saying that I don't have an idea, but I feel that one needs to be found, and I'm confident that you mcpublicans can come up with something that I couldn't.

Currently there's a very large problem with subregions being made within towns. I've had some decently long talks with Buznatch, and it's certainly not due to any maliciousness on the side of the admins. That being said, it's still a problem that needs to be dealt with.

There are two major issues that have come up for Seneca this past rev. I will talk mostly about Seneca, because that is what I know. I know that there are other towns that have had similar issues, however I don't know any of the specifics.

The first issue is that of builds that either A.) have a purpose or B.) are in their nature public builds. A good example of A would be shops and villager setups. A good example of B would be rails and grinders. The Mayors have had many issues with having something break, needing to add to the rails, etc., but being disallowed from editing because they didn't specifically build these things. There should be either some rule changes or better clarification about this. If cities are in essence just large collaborative builds, and should be treated no different than players (which is how it's been on mcpublic for quite some time), how are the public builds of that city any different from the auto-smelter within the house you built with three friends. You may not have specifically placed it, but you are sure allowed to edit it.

This just isn't working. We've had so many issues surrounding these kinds of builds and something needs to be fixed about it.

The second issue is that of subregions within towns. Why are these there? I have been told by Buzzie that subregion requests within cities would be denied, but Seneca has many of them anyway. I understand that this is possible due to cases where the regions predated the city region. That is fine, but if they were meant to be part of the city then when the city region covers them, the subregion should be removed as it is henceforth redundant. Either that, or if the builds are known to be a part of the city but are for any reason not covered by the city region, then that is a clear indicator that the city region needs to be expanded and not, in my opinion, that the build should get its own region which could only cause trouble later on.

This, of course, assumes that all subregions within cities were formed before they were covered by the city region. While that may be true, I find it a little bit less than likely. It may need clarification that subregions should not be given within a larger region without the larger region-owner's consent.

I'm sorry for the wall of text, and I'm not sure how to conclude this so I'll just say that I look forward to your suggestions.

TL/DR (because seriously this post is TL): Have an idea of a better system for how to deal with subregions and the ownership of public builds within cities? We'd love to hear it.