Oceanfront lots in Pleasantville?

[Doc Doofus]

I instantly thought of coming here to ask about this.

BV comes with oceanfront lots.  However, you can't place any of these down unless you have a road parallel (and close enough) to a coast.  I'd like to be able to plop some of those oceanfront lots down in older neighborhoods that DON'T have parallel roads.

Is there a cheat or a hack or some other method that will allow me to do that?  What would it take?

I recalled JM's wonderful terrain-surgery thread.  I'm afraid to try doing that to Pleasantville this soon after a new X-pack, especially one for which there is no SimPE tool yet.  (In case you haven't tried it yet, the old Simpe is totally roached with BV).

It would have been ever so cool if Maxis had included some poorly-documented cheat that would allow you to move lots to any place you felt like in the neighborhood regardless of roads.  Any such luck?

[jsalemi]

I don't think there's a way to do it with non-parallel roads, and I've also read here and elsewhere that the existing terrains don't work very well with beach lots. Something about the drop-off at the end of the land being too steep.

It would just be easier to add a new subhood with a terrain modified or designed for beachfront lots and use that for sims to live on the beach or to have non-vacation community beaches. There's been a couple of places to get such terrains mentioned in the various BV threads here.

[J. M. Pescado]

I recalled JM's wonderful terrain-surgery thread.  I'm afraid to try doing that to Pleasantville this soon after a new X-pack, especially one for which there is no SimPE tool yet.  (In case you haven't tried it yet, the old Simpe is totally roached with BV).

Ye Olde SimPE works fine, you just need to disable all the obsolete plugins and work in RAW mode, which is fine since Terrain Surgery requires no editation, merely cut-and-paste replacements.