The council's 10-year plan will be made publicly available today, before Friday's council meeting in Queenstown, at which councillors will be asked to approve it for public consultation.
The plan contains aspects of the $385million projects contained in the Queenstown town centre master plan, publicly unveiled in July.
Those projects include a new arterial road, public and passenger transport facilities, a new, one-office, council building and major upgrades for the CBD streets.
DowntownQT general manager Steve Wilde told the Otago Daily Times the majority of the work proposed in the master plan had been included in the 10-year plan, but the ``main event'' - an upgrade to The Mall - had, at this stage, been pushed in to the 20-year plan.
Built in the 1970s, The Mall has not been upgraded for at least 20 years.
Mr Wilde said leaving it for another 20 years would be ``like baking a cake ... and then only half icing it''.
The master plan envisaged a ``civic axis'' which would lead from the proposed new council offices, in Ballarat St, through the CBD and down The Mall, Queenstown's main pedestrianised street, to the waterfront, and from the Queenstown Gardens, along Marine Pde and Rees St to Brecon St and Skyline's gondola.
Mr Wilde believed the council needed to continue lobbying for government funding to get as many of the projects envisaged in the master plan, including The Mall upgrade, under way as soon as possible.
``This has got to be pushed up to Wellington.
``I understand the position of the council ... but I think the bigger thing is ... we just can't afford to do all of the things we need to do.
``We're going to be doing this town as a world-class [destination], and it should be.
``Should the nation be contributing to that, considering we're at the forefront of the tourism [proposition]?''
The arterial road would cost about $140million and Mr Wilde expected that would be funded by central government.
Other aspects, for example car parking buildings, ``could be funded privately''.
``The rest, this community is going to have to pay for [and] I think they [the council] are pushing it in terms of how much they can borrow and that's why they've had to say `we've had to prioritise projects''.
Mr Boult told the ODT there were many projects the council would prefer to do sooner but ``it's a bit like the household income''.
``You can only spend what you've got.
``While there are a large number of things we'd love to bring forward. Simply, we don't have the money for it.''
He had been lobbying the government for additional funding since he was elected as mayor in October 2016 and said he ``genuinely'' believed some progress was being made.
Should government support be forthcoming, there were ``a lot'' of projects which might be brought forward again, for example, a new bridge at Arthurs Point.
``The Edith Cavell Bridge is maxed out at certain times of the day,'' he said.
``After the school bus crash on Frankton Rd [last November] we got into gridlock.
``We should be bringing another bridge further forward [but there is no funding].''
