The Dunedin City Council's community development committee will meet and then consider a staff report, containing draft changes to a section of the Ocean Beach Domain management plan governing the coastal road.
The draft changes to the road - closed to vehicles since October last year - aimed to stress its status as part of the domain, rather than as a legal road.
Councillors would be asked to accept the changes, paving the way for public consultation on the road's future later this year and possibly leading to its permanent closure to vehicles.
The draft changes saw all references to "road" removed, and replaced with the word "drive" instead.
A new sentence also stressed "the drive is not a legal road", and detailed the need for vehicles to be "controlled" to protect public safety, sensitive dunes, flora and fauna, amenity values and opportunities for non-vehicle recreation in the area.
Another new paragraph said picnic tables and seating could be added if landscape planning work was undertaken to improve the area.
Council community and recreation policy team leader Lisa Wheeler, in her report to today's meeting, said the changes were the result of an initial call for public suggestions for the future use of the road.
The council had received 98 suggestions, which had been considered while drafting the proposed changes, she said.
A detailed breakdown of the suggestions has not yet been made public.
The report recommended councillors approve the draft changes for a second round of public consultation, with two months for submissions followed by a hearing if required, she said.
Final recommendations would need committee approval, then the full council's, and changes would have to be approved by Conservation Minister Kate Wilkinson.
The road was closed to vehicles in October last year - just two weeks after reopening - at Mayor Peter Chin's instruction, following a death at Lawyers Head.
The closure later won retrospective approval from councillors.
Councillors also voted late last year to support plans to permanently close the road to vehicles in a bid to improve public safety.
Consultation was required because the road was part of the domain, and the domain management plan required consultation before changes could be confirmed.
The Reserves Act 1977 also required compliance with the management plan.
