A recommendation the Queenstown Lakes District Council lead development of a convention centre at a site known as Lakeview will be discussed at an extraordinary meeting on Tuesday.
The recommendation is contained in the covering report prepared by council chief executive Adam Feeley for Tuesday's meeting.
It comes after a month-long public consultation period in which the council received 748 submissions, a public submission hearing where 32 people spoke on behalf of their submission and the announcement that decisions on the centre would be delayed for a week due to issues raised.
The council's leading of the development at Lakeview would be subject to the Government confirming a capital contribution to the centre, the council approving a masterplan and a preferred rating model to fund the council's contribution and a project development agreement for the site.
The report notes that if the ''point is reached where a project development agreement is entered into'', it is not contemplated the council's leadership will extend to actively managing the development of the Lakeview site or operating the convention centre.
The centre would cater for up to 750 people and cost $50 million and the report notes a ''750-delegate conference centre in a region with a permanent population of less than 30,000 people is unique by any measure''.
There has been no detailed analysis of rating options and a formal funding request has not been put to the Government but this is now timely, the report says.
The report also notes ''there appears to be a majority of qualified public support for the project'' - this despite the mixed opinions seen at a question and answer session and at the verbal submission hearing.
People living in low rent cabins on the Lakeview site fear they will not be able to find similar priced rent elsewhere.
The cabins occupy the land on bare licences - meaning they have no interest in the land - which terminate on September 30, 2015, with no right of renewal.
