Boardwalks and footpaths will be the hot topic of today's Tauranga City Council meeting which will hear objections to the cycle track along Papamoa, and potentially make a final decision on the controversial Pilot Bay boardwalk.

The Projects and Monitoring meeting will open with a 10 minute address from Mount Maunganui Progressive Association's David Burnett on the Pilot Bay boardwalk, before councillors make a decision on whether to go ahead with construction.

The planned Pilot Bay boardwalk will get another airing at Tauranga City Council's Projects and Monitoring Committee meeting today.

The planned $500,000 boardwalk project began in 2011 following concerns over the degradation along the waterfront, and went out for public consultation last year.

More than 100 submissions were received on the project and a plan was put together in line with submissions with construction set to start this month.

Last month a public meeting and protest was held at Pilot Bay after the plan gained criticism from residents.

Today councillors will make a decision on whether or not to begin construction on the boardwalk.

Council will also discuss the upgrade to the Papamoa cycleway from Gravatt Road to Hartford Avenue following concerns from Royal Palm Beach Estate residents.

The cycleway, which is one of 10 links running 32km in total from Papamoa to Bethlehem, was been in the legislatively consulted upon and discussed city plan since 2006.

The Papamoa Progressive Association was advised in November 2011 that the section from Hartford Avenue to Gravatt Road is the next to be gravelled. Tenders were called in November 2012.

Tauranga City Council says the improving the existing pathway to allow all weather use. The existing grass track becomes wet and unusable during winter months.

Locals are complaining the 3metre wide path is going to distract from their neighbourhood's existing quiet ambience.

They say it will provide vehicle access for vandals and thieves, leading to more thefts and of larger possessions.

There are also concerns it will obtrude from surrounding properties outlook on the water.