The term "units" covers residential dwellings, visitor accommodation complexes and also caters for apartments, hotels, and multiresidential sections, QLDC policy planner Ralph Henderson told the Otago Daily Times.
The plan change hearing commission panel of John Matthews, Leigh Overton, and Gillian McLeod listened to 11 witnesses, who presented evidence on behalf of Mt Cardrona Station owners Ross Hawkins and Tony Fountain, yesterday.
The pair were approached by the QLDC to develop 124ha of Mt Cardrona Station as part of the council's proposed plan change 18, which grew out of discussion workshops with the Cardrona community.
Mr Hawkins and Mr Fountain already have resource consent to develop 15ha of Mt Cardrona Station with up to 824 dwellings in a mix of residential and visitor accommodation.
If the commissioners decide the plan change can go ahead, the new village could provide housing for up to 3500 people, depending on the type of dwellings, or "units" developed on 32ha of land, with the remaining 92ha designated as "open space".
At the 2001 census, Cardrona's population was 66.
Submitters said the village would provide accommodation and housing for skifield workers and visitors, a consented gondola, and other projected attractions.
