Amended plans were not able to appease Mosgiel residents' resistance to a McDonald's restaurant being built in Hartstonge Ave.
Following a Dunedin City Council resource consent hearing in August for the proposed restaurant, the hearings committee requested alternative site layouts be produced.
An amended site plan was provided and discussed by the applicant and submitters at another hearing yesterday.
Changes included a single, centralised vehicle entrance and exit point; car parks reduced from 41 to 29; increased landscaping; and the building moved further back on the site.
Following these changes, council planner Karen Bain believed the "amended site layout will be more positive".
However, she also said the revised layout would provide neither more nor less relief from effects, such as noise, traffic, glare and lighting.
If consent was to be granted, she said conditions should be included such as reduced trading hours, installation of silencers on ventilation and extraction units and the restriction of service deliveries.
She recommended a barrier be placed across the car park outside operating hours so it could not be used as a congregating place and that all illuminated signs be turned off.
However, Hartstonge Ave residents remained staunchly opposed to the proposed development.
Malcolm Anngow voiced his concerns about emissions, noise, traffic and the fact the proposed plan, for a commercial development, did not meet the district plan's rules which had the site zoned as large-scale retail.
He also referred to recent media reports about "adverse behaviour" outside McDonald's in George St and was concerned about similar incidents occurring outside his house.
"Please don't let the residents down again," Mr Angow pleaded to committee members.
Shelley Ross also raised the media reports and said McDonald's staff lacked power over incidents which occurred off their property.
She believed people loitering would leave elderly residents feeling unsafe and negatively impact on their lifestyles.
McDonald's counsel Grant Hewison, believed "the application merits approval" and said submitters had not sought any specialist noise or traffic analysis as the applicant had.
The committee began final consideration of its decision, in private, yesterday and had not yet made a ruling.
