The Dunedin City Council planning and environment committee will today discuss a request from the trust for a district plan change that would change what is now industrial zoned land to allow an extension to the campus zone, and a new stadium zone.
Trust chairman Malcolm Farry has said appeals to the Environment Court over the plan change could stop the project being built by the 2011 Rugby World Cup, and the trust earlier this year raised the possibility of a Government "call-in'' of the project to streamline the process.
Mr Farry said at the weekend the trust had decided to go ahead with the normal plan change process.
Environment Court challenges were "one of our worries'', he said, but he was satisfied the plan change was something everyone could accept.
"However, there are other parties who, for other reasons, might object to the plan. That's the democratic process".
The report will go before an extraordinary meeting of the committee today, with a recommendation from council planning policy manager Paul Freeland it be publicly notified.
Mr Freeland's report said there had been "considerable consultation'' between the trust and council officers, and the trust had provided reports on issues such as traffic, noise, economic issues and urban design. Mr Freeland suggested the council should adopt the plan change.
Planning and environment committee deputy chairman Neil Collins said he expected the committee would vote to progress the plan change.
Mr Farry said there was a possibility councillors might decide on the call-in option, though there is no mention of that in the committee's agenda.
