As part of the Queenstown Lakes District Council's district plan review, the council has sought to amend parts of the plan's subdivision section.
After the council's strategy meeting last Tuesday, senior policy analyst Scott Figenshow said it was important to note that the report was not proposing any specific change.
Instead, it was a monitoring report "fitting into a much wider project of the district plan review".
Of the known problems, he said there were district-wide and zone-specific objectives which in some cases needed to be updated.
"These things that are zone-specific need to be worked through to make them district-wide."
He gave the example of objective 11 for the Three Parks Zone, which was "a high level of residential amenity and a range of housing types which promote strong, healthy, and inclusive communities".
He asked, "Why would that need to be zone-specific?"
It came in for the Three Parks Zone because it's a newer zone but people would want it done in other zones too."
At the strategy meeting, councillors heard that an aim of the report was to implement urban design strategies in urban zones, summarised as creating housing and amenities to fit the local environment and enchancing neighbourhood identity.
Included in this discussion were privacy issues in subdivisions, and how some homeowners built large fences to achieve a level of privacy which had the effect of making people feel safe.
Landscape approaches would be implemented in rural zones.
Councillors discussed the issue of reserves not being well addressed in subdivisions and suggested improvements.
Councillor Cath Gilmour said Queenstown had a lot of "large and unuseful reserves" and that there needed to be thought put into reserve planting.
