Plan change 4 - North Three Parks, involves rezoning 46.8ha of private land from rural general to the Three Parks Zone (TPZ), to provide for residential and business activities.
It is consistent with the proposed zoning in the Wanaka structure plan.
The plan change was originally notified on March 29 and a two-day hearing was held in June.
QLDC senior policy analyst Sue Mavor said the strategy committee would be asked next week to determine if the council would adopt the commissioners' recommendation for the plan change.
Commissioners David Whitney and Leigh Overton said in their report they were satisfied the zoning change was logical and integrated the existing TPZ with the Wanaka township.
They noted all owners within the plan change 4 (PC4) area "fundamentally supported the rezoning", despite some raising concerns about certain aspects of the proposal.
North Three Parks is mostly owned by Ballantyne Investments Ltd, whose directors are Bill Haig and Neil Matchett.
The other landowners are Roger Moseby and Marilyn Gordon, Sue Robertson, Simon and Carolyn Spencer-Bower and Aurora Energy Ltd.
At the hearing, Mr Moseby and Mrs Robertson said although development opportunities within the plan change area would be beneficial, plans to close the existing access off State Highway 84 to their properties - on prime land at the entrance to Wanaka - was illogical in the context of the proposed subzone which provided for visitor accommodation.
They suggested creating an access to North Three Parks off SH84, additional to a proposed roundabout intersection which would service Three Parks.
The commission said evidence from the New Zealand Transport Authority and a traffic engineer made it clear an additional access point was not appropriate, nor was increased usage of the existing access points to the Moseby-Gordon and Robertson properties.
Alternate rear access to the properties was necessary.
Ms Mavor said although the July 2010 dwelling capacity model showed there was a considerable amount of residential zoned land in Wanaka, the plan change would zone land for medium density residential, which was not widely available.
If the committee adopted the commissioners' recommendations, the PC4 decision would be notified and an appeal period of 30 working days would be available.
If there were no appeals, the plan change would become operative.
The plan change process would then take some time and development would be staged to ensure the market was not flooded with residential land, Ms Mavor said.
