As well as more sites being prohibited, and a new area designated at Westshore, councillor Claire Hague led the amendment of other resolutions made at an extraordinary meeting on the matter last month, after speaking with affected residents.
The new resolutions made the maximum stay at Westshore Beach, and Perfume Point, Ahuriri, two nights. At those beach front areas there would also be a maximum capacity of four self-contained vehicles.
Council also moved Westshore would be closed for freedom campers from December 24, to February 7. Due to timing, council was unsure if the closure of Westshore could come into effect this year.
It was also agreed overnight stays in areas of Napier would be limited to one consecutive night.
A working group will be formed next year to look at the bylaw in the long term, including the temporary closure of the only site available for non-self-contained freedom campers in the city.
Opinions differed at this week's meeting on whether council could close the site, as had been suggested at November's meeting by councillor Annette Brosnan.
A paper before council stated at that meeting that councillors had agreed to request chief executive Wayne Jack close the site on a temporary basis due to safety issues. They also agreed on a blanket ban on such vehicles in Napier City "if legal advice permits this decision within the scope of the hearing".
However, the advice relayed to council this week from council lawyer Matthew Lawson was that it was not within council's power to close the site, as bylaw consultation had not signalled these actions.
Although an outright closure was not in the scope of the bylaw, council could put that option forward in future.
However, while "closing [the site] for the sake of closing it" was outside the bylaw, Ms Brosnan argued the matter was a separate safety issue.
Although enforcement at the foreshore reserve carpark had increased, and future alterations were also proposed, Ms Brosnan stated she was not convinced safety issues would be resolved by these measures.
She argued the responsibility would be on council, "if someone dies there tonight and we didn't instruct our [chief executive] to close the site, regardless of all the evidence we've seen".
Some councillors agreed with Ms Brosnan, stating after November's meeting they felt instructions had been given to temporarily close the site to mitigate safety risks.
However, after discussing the matter for more than an hour, councillors agreed the suggestion to remove the SH2 site as a freedom camping zone be revoked, on the condition "council asked for it be closed and the opinion of staff was that it not happen".