Part of a Brighton road reserve where 2degrees wants to install a cell tower needs to be used for parking to improve road safety, residents say.
The community's concerns about safety on the corner were aired at a public meeting with Dunedin City Council roading staff last week.
At the meeting, council transportation operations programme engineer Michael Harrison presented residents with concepts by the council for improving pedestrian safety and on-street parking provisions, including on the bend where the cell tower is to go, and slowing traffic down on Scroggs Hill Rd and Seaview Rd.
He was seeking feedback so the council could determine where the work could fit in its roading improvement programme.
Saddle Hill community board chairman Keith McFadyen said 30 to 40 people attended the meeting.
The feedback was ''not radically different'' to the council's concepts, but what to do about the bend in Scroggs Hill Rd was ''probably slightly more controversial''.
The community had long had concerns about safety on the bend, which had limited visibility, narrow berms, no footpath and poor parking, and when the issue of a cell tower installation came up there was concern it could impact on future safety improvements on the bend, he said.
The board had raised the safety concerns with the council. People at the meeting told Mr Harrison they wanted some of the road reserve on the bend used for a better parking area, Mr McFadyen said.
''We are saying that to maintain the width of the road and address safety concern by having cars parked off-road, some of the road reserve where 2degrees wants to install its tower would need to be used.''
Residents also supported a pedestrian footpath on the seaward side of the road.
After the meeting, Mr Harrison said the council's concepts already involved using some of the road reserve and did not conflict ''at this time'' with what the council understood to be 2degrees' plans.
The feedback from the community at the meeting was ''generally achievable.''
He would give the council's response to the feedback to the community board at its meeting in late November.
