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>However I still can't into roofs. This is a real pickle
I'd say just use Houdini but I'd be trolling

use some sort of instancing for roof tiles, have some way to ID handfuls of tiles into groups so you can assign all sorts of variations to them (transforms, materials, texturemaps, etc.).
Start off by making 3 - 5 max rez tiles (dependant on how close you're going to get to any one of them in a shot), and then reduce them into lower res versions for far shots to keep the scene efficient.
basically find a way to do proxy work in blender. Pipes, gutters, etc. are business as usual, you could perhaps make a profile of a shape follow a curve for some things either completely or just at first. Depends on what way's you're going to texture things if you are at all.

>as having anywhere near the appropriate amount of grass particles makes the render time for each frame completely bananas
I'd say just use Houdini but I'd be trolling
You're in for a world of pain my friend, less you find a way to do proxy work in blender

General thing too keep in mind is that for what you're trying to do, you should have high res and a few levels of lower rez versions of a handful of your models too keep things efficient instead of having everything be loaded and accounted for a render time when their high res existence won't contribute shit to whatever camera angle and distance you're rendering from.

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