A Queenstown landowner wants land bordering Sunshine Bay rezoned to enable about 200 residential units. Much of the land was classified as outstanding natural landscape until last September, when an appeal over stage one of the proposed district plan was settled. Mr Bayliss recommended the committee agree in principle to rezoning the land and approve a variation to the proposed district plan, but the committee was unconvinced. Mr Bayliss was not able to provide detailed information as to the cost, but said under the Resource Management Act there could not be a private plan change to a proposed district plan. An alternative would be to notify the rezoning as part of stage four of the proposed plan, he said.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 02, 2020 15:45 UTC