The Dunedin City Council is putting up 124 shelters at bus stops around the city this year at the direction of the Otago Regional Council.
One of those is to be put in front of Steve Rogan's home in Larnach Rd, near the corner of Shandon Rd, where there is abus stop.
It was his experience with buses stopping in front of his property, on broken yellow lines, that sparked his concerns.
"It totally blocks our driveway and one lane of traffic," he said.
He opposed its placement and made a submission to a council hearing giving property owners a chance to air concerns about the placement of bus shelters.
Mr Rogan believed the bus was stopping illegally on yellow lines and the shelter and any bus would block his view of traffic coming down the road. It would also devalue his property.
"It'll be three to four metres from our front bedroom window and people will be standing there."
Instead ,he proposed the bus stop be put further up the road in a layby across from the shopping centre.
The hearing committee, after a site visit, approved the shelter, with conditions that the safety-related issues of road markings be addressed and that the shelter be placed further back from the road to minimise safety issues.
Mr Rogan said he was not happy with the outcome but became more "irate" when he saw the placement of the bus shelter spray painted on grass in the original position this week.
"I'm very, very irate."
He had been corresponding with both councils' staff over the issue and yesterday wrote to Dunedin City Council chief executive Paul Orders asking that he listen to reason and get rid of the bus stop.
Dunedin City Council operations manager Tony Avery said the council had halted the installation of the bus shelter until it was able to respond to Mr Rogan's concerns.
Mr Rogan's concerns had been heard at a publicly notified hearing and the council was implementing the decisions made by the hearings panel, he said.
Otago Regional Council support services manager Gerard Collings said a lot of people did not want a bus shelter in front of their home and similar issues to Mr Rogan's had been raised in other sites.
"If we move one site we have to move the lot," he said.
The council had independent valuations done of homes where residents were concerned about devaluation but the valuer found that would not happen, he said.
