He believes that will be one way to find out everyone's position on issues ranging from whether the street should be traffic-free to how to revitalise it.
The meeting is being held tomorrow night, from 5pm, in the Opera House and Mr Wilson hopes a group will be set up to focus solely on revitalisation of Harbour St.
He envisages that group having representatives from the Oamaru Whitestone Civic Trust (which owns heritage buildings in the street), Waitaki District Council, Waitaki branch of the Chamber of Commerce, Tourism Waitaki, business owners, tenants, building owners and the community.
Mr Wilson does not see that group cutting across the civic trust because it would concentrate on bringing together and implementing ideas put forward for the street.
One of the more contentious issues has been making Harbour St pedestrian-only by banning modern-day traffic.
Since a public meeting in January, which produced about 60 ideas on redeveloping the street, there had been a lot of feedback on what people wanted.
Mr Wilson acknowledged views were split on whether traffic should be banned, restricted or continue to have access.
That was welcome because, without knowing those views, there could be no way forward.
''But, it is not just about the traffic. it's also about a heritage asset and looking at the whole revitalisation of the street,'' he said.
Harbour St was ''really special'', the heart of the Victorian Precinct, and possibly the finest 19th-century street in Australasia.
''There is also no reason why it should not look outstanding,'' Mr Wilson said.
A huge amount of work had been done in the 29 years since the Harbour-Tyne St area was first investigated for development as a Victorian Town at Work.
But Mr Wilson felt it was time to do more with Harbour St and wanted that to come from tomorrow's meeting.
