The revised plan by the council intends to remove the pine plantation next to the beach in four stages. The first stage is to start in November and the last is tentatively set to finish in 2017.
The council came up with the plan after community members at a meeting in November last year objected to a plan to fell the trees in two stages, concerned it would leave them vulnerable to coastal erosion and battered by wind and sand.
Waikouaiti Coast Community Board chairman Gerard Collings said the new plan represented a ''compromise'' and addressed many of the concerns raised.
In voting at its meeting last week to go with the plan, the community board also asked for some additional conditions.
Those conditions included having the council review progress after every stage of felling, not just the first, develop a communications strategy in partnership with the community board and monitor and report back to the board on coastal erosion along Waikouaiti Beach.
Mr Collings hoped most people would be ''satisfied'' with the board's decision, but said it would be impossible to please everyone.
''There is such a wide range of views among the community about what should and shouldn't happen,'' he said.
The community board was ''pretty much unanimous that doing nothing isn't an option'', which was a major reason why it voted to go with the plan.
The council would have the final say, but Mr Collings previously indicated it would probably follow the board's recommendation.
