Pilot Bay's planned boardwalk has been partially re-routed and narrowed in a compromise bid to win over opponents to the $500,000 project.
Tauranga City Council urban designer Clinton Bowyer yesterday unveiled plans for a revamped boardwalk.
Instead of the boardwalk being 3m wide for nearly its entire length, the revised design sees it shrink to 2.4m at its narrowest point where it runs between the norfolk pines and the side of the road.
Otherwise it will mostly be 2.7m except for 3m where it runs along the front of the Salisbury Wharf carpark, the section from the waka shed to the toilets, and in front of the northern angled carparks.
The other major change was to pull it back onto the grass along the section where it originally ran close to the beachfront.