A proposal to redevelop the Bureta Park Motor Inn site will be considered by a Tauranga City Council hearings panel on Thursday.
The application by Perry Property is for consent to replace the ageing hotel with 86 residential units, a wholesale liquor shop, a bar and restaurant and nine retail units.

The proposal.

The council's senior environmental planner Alistair Talbot recommends granting consent for the development.
The residential development includes two-storey-high terrace apartments along the northern border of the site and a three-storey-semi-circular building, containing the bulk of the apartments with a height of 11 metres.
The bar/restaurant and retail developments are proposed for Bureta Road.
There are 36 submissions opposing the development, with the opposition concerned about the development's density, height, effects on traffic, the loss of park and open space, loss of amenity values for their own properties and the loss of the trees.
There are 18 trees in the park that will be felled to make room for the development. An arborist says only four of them are 'good specimen trees” and that none of those would qualify for the protected trees register.