The second day of the Dunedin City Council's spatial plan hearings again brought more than 30 submitters with a diverse range of opinions to the council table.
While the hearings committee again heard from some submitters with personal issues relating to their own properties, sea level rise and climate change also surfaced, and even spatial needs for artists and for "spirituality".
More than 100 people will appear before the council this week to speak to their submissions on the draft spatial plan, after 214 were received.
The plan will put in place an over-arching vision for the city, dealing with issues including an expected extra 7600 residential units needed by 2031, the housing needs of an ageing population, rising oil prices, global warming, and the future of heritage buildings and character areas.
Yesterday's submissions came from groups including the city's community boards, the Southern District Health Board, the Department of Conservation and Cadbury.
A submission from council consultation group, the Your City Our Future arts and culture group, said the core place of the arts and culture sector "continues to be overlooked and underplayed in the city vision, and is again in the draft spatial plan".
John Bellamy, of the Otago Peninsula Community Board, said it had been difficult to engage residents in the spatial plan, when many "had no understanding of the term or its purpose".
Cr Colin Weatherall, who was chairman of the meeting during the afternoon, said he felt people did understand the intent of the plan, but their submissions had "a very diverse range of individual components".
The hearing continues today.
