The amended plan released by the Queenstown Lakes District Council this week supported construction of new buildings on the lakefront.
The plan will be considered by the Wanaka Community Board at its meeting on Monday. Council parks and reserves general manager Mike Weaver has recommended it be adopted.
Under the plan, a new lease would be granted within the next three years to a non-motorised watersports facility at the western end of Roys Bay.
Starting next year, the community would help plan and design seven new activity zones within Roys Bay.
Wanaka Watersports Facility Trust chairman Michael Sidey said the plan was supportive of what his group was trying to achieve.
''We'll just have to hope now that the community board will rubber-stamp it ... we don't want to get too excited.''
Mr Sidey recently announced a rowing tank had been added to the trust's building plans, increasing the footprint by 35sq m to 460sq m. The trust's preferred location for it was next to the Stoney Creek car park.
Lawyer Jan Caunter, who represents several residents objecting to new lakefront buildings, said the plan appeared to have been drafted to support granting the lease so the council could avoid public notification and ''save money''.
Under the Reserves Act 1977, public notification was not required if granting the lease was consistent with the management plan, or with any resource consent granted for the watersports proposal, Ms Caunter said.
QLDC general manager operations Ruth Stokes said it was standard practice for management plans to grant leases.
She confirmed adoption of the plan would rule out the community influencing the council's ability to grant a lease if the watersports facility trust applied for one.
However, the trust's proposal would still be subject to the relevant district plan requirements.
''There'll be a number of steps yet. It's not going to be a case that you're going to wake up tomorrow and there's going to be a new facility on the lakefront.''
Ms Caunter raised other issues with the plan, including that its policy to ''ensure that the character of the reserves is not compromised by structures ... and that the reserve values are maintained or enhanced'' conflicted with the decision to grant a lease for the watersports facility.
''The council doesn't yet have final plans for the watersports facility. How will it know the character of the reserve is not compromised, or that the reserve values are maintained or enhanced?''
Wanaka submitter John Coe considered it ''ridiculous'' the amended plan was made public four days before it would be put to a vote by the community board.
Lake Hawea resident Don Robertson believed the only hope for a ''sane outcome to an emerging scenario of undesirably obstructive built structures'' was to site the building further around the lakefront below Morrows Mead, where it would be less obtrusive.
Mrs Stokes said the activity zone earmarked for the facility extended to Morrows Mead and the community would have some say on what it considered the most appropriate location within that zone.
Amendments to the management plan were made by Wanaka Community Board members Rachel Brown and Bryan Lloyd and councillor Calum MacLeod following public submissions and a hearing.
