Queenstown Lakes District councillors are being asked to adopt commissioners' recommendations on Plan Change 50 - Queenstown Town Centre Zone.
It paves the way for the construction of the proposed Queenstown Convention Centre.
In a report prepared for today's council meeting, planning and development general manager Marc Bretherton recommended the council agreed to adopt the commissioners' recommendations as council decisions and notify the decision.
The purpose of the plan change was to address a lack of land zoned ''Queenstown Town Centre'' and enable growth of the town centre.
It was subject to public hearings in November, January and February, following which the commissioners concluded the plan change was appropriate, subject to 14 ''comprehensive'' amendments.
Those included a reduction in the size of the area to be zoned under PC50, agreed to by the council during the hearing process.
Commissioners also retained the non-notification clauses relating to a proposed convention centre and visitor accommodation within the Lakeview subzone and had not included any provisions requiring the identification of a convention centre within that zone.
Mr Bretherton's report said the key consideration for the council was to determine independently whether or not the plan change should proceed.
''The risk of endorsing the commissioners' recommendations is that of appeal. The recommendation is to reduce the size of PC50 from what was originally proposed. Other amendments have been made ... with a view to appeasing submitter concerns. It is considered that these amendments and the decision of the commissioners mitigates the risk to an acceptable degree.''
