Changes to the $500,000 Pilot Bay boardwalk design may continue today after a reworked design narrowing the pathway was presented to Tauranga City Council committee yesterday.

The city's urban designer Clinton Bowyer presented a ‘tweaked' design reducing the proposed 3metre boardwalk to 2.7metres along the Bay with 2.4 metres at its slimmest part around The Mall.

The former design for the boardwalk.

Today the same councillors will hear a ten minute address from boardwalk opposition led by Colleen Spiro, who will also deliver a petition opposing the boardwalk.

The decision to build the boardwalk has already been made, following the legally required public consultation and hearing of submissions.

Feedback from discussion of the design at the council's recent public meeting has resulted in the boardwalk being narrowed and re-routed.

The boardwalk has been slimmed down from three metres to 2.4 as it passes alongside The Mall beside the Norfolk Pines.

The rest of it will be mostly 2.7metres, apart from 3metre sections across the front of the Salisbury car park, near the waka shed and at the angled carparks at the northern end of the bay.

It's also going to be pulled back from the bank where it originally ran close to the beachfront.

The compromise design changes are expected to be ratified on April 8.

'It was just an updated version of the plan as amended by the ideas from the members of the public, and it's not final yet,” says committee chairman Bill Faulkner today.

'The decision to build the boardwalk has already been made. All we are deciding now is what form it's going to take, and that decision will be made next month. We are altering it as we go.”

Yesterday's presentation did not show a re-built waka shed, says Bill. His plan is to have the waka housed in a lean-to off the toilet block.