A designated "entertainment precinct", an affordable civic centre, maintaining building height restrictions and preserving short-term car parking are among the public responses to the Queenstown Lakes District Council's draft town centre strategy.
Nine submissions were received by the council yesterday, ahead of the close of submissions at 5pm today.
Frenzi Group director Roy Thompson, of Queenstown, submitted the draft strategy should state explicitly where the development of further visitor accommodation was supported by the community.
A sub-zone would define an "entertainment precinct" where accommodation was not desirable due to adverse late-night noise.
Central accommodation providers should be required to ensure minimum sound insulation requirements and to retrofit their premises if need be, Mr Thompson submitted.
Queenstown Gardens supporter Jay Cassells submitted consideration should be given to older visitors, who he suggested usually spent more and stayed longer than younger visitors.
There should be an affordable civic centre hub which also functioned as a meeting place, performance space, arts centre and information centre, he submitted.
"The visitor to this hub should get an early impression that this is a smart town which knows the value of what it has and gets the balance right ... between `party town' and `community'."
Browns Ski Shop co-owner Kris Vermeir wanted to see a more coherent development strategy to retain Queenstown's character and did not want to see building height restrictions changed.
Courierpost Queenstown branch manager Jan Humphries submitted the town centre was growing but service lanes were shrinking.
Peter Fleming and Associates, and on behalf of at least eight parties, submitted Athol St was too small to become a transport hub.
They opposed any changes to "noise pollution standards" in the central business district.
Foodstuffs South Island Ltd, owner of Alpine Supermarket, was in general support of the strategy, but had some reservations.
Foodstuffs property development manager Rebecca Parish submitted free short-term parking was essential if residents and visitors were to support central Queenstown retailers.
A council assessment of Athol St as a transport hub needed to recognise "the need and demand" for car parks there, she submitted.
The Otago Regional Council was interested in the draft as it related to potential changes to the district plan on height rules, flood provisions, impacts on stormwater or Horne Creek and transport, car parking, pedestrian movement and access, liaison resource planner Sarah Valk submitted.
Queenstown Lakes District Council senior policy analyst Ralph Henderson said all submissions would be reviewed.
Staff would determine if additional targeted consultation, such as for the retail sector, was required.
The Queenstown Chamber of Commerce was expected to lodge a submission today.
