REDLAND City Council has completed the final draft of its 14-year city plan, due to be implemented in 2016.
The amended draft was sent to the state government last week and will be returned to council before details of the document are put out for public consultation.
About 100 residents, from throughout the Redlands, attended a Koala Action Group talk on the process and principles behind the 2015 City Plan at Indigiscapes on Thursday last week.
Division 1 councillor Wendy Boglary explained the state and local levels of planning that form a city's planning scheme.
She said it defined future use of land and classified it into broad zones administered by the council.
Cr Boglary said the talk was a good way to let people know they could lodge valid submissions about the planning scheme when it was time.
A 60,000 increase in population, higher building densities and job creation were the main subjects raised by the group, which included disgruntled residents from Thornlands who wanted their section of the city included in the Urban Footprint.
Koala activist and Ormiston resident Adelia Berridge said she did not trust council to listen or heed residents' points of view after her bid to save 27 koala trees failed.
"If 27 trees can't be saved by 37,500 signatures, what hope have residents got?" she said.
Another questioned why council should spend "all this money" on a planning scheme when the state government had ultimate control.
Community Alliance for Responsible Planning spokeswoman Lavinia Wood said Redlands was already overpopulated and koalas were the victims.
Ms Wood said surveys done for the last city plan found residents valued the bush, the bay, red-soil farms and the separate and distinct villages.
"This council has accepted a defacto 60,000 growth target from the state government so I have to wonder who's paying attention to the community plan?"
Cleveland residents wanted to know how they could reshape plans for Toondah Harbour and others wanted to know about coastal foreshore building restrictions.
CSIRO employee and Cleveland resident Tom Toranto called for more accurate mapping to be used and Steve MacDonald said a 30-year plan was "too much crystal ball gazing" and 10 years would suffice.
Bay Island resident Robin Harris said he was not convinced the plan would adequately address the lack of infrastructure in the southern part of the city.
He asked who would pay to upgrade Cleveland-Redland Bay Road to four lanes before a 4000-dwelling estate was built in Redland Bay.
Victoria Point's Paul Golle asked for less secrecy around the plan and wanted to know how the plan would allow for 15 per cent of townhouses being built near Faith Lutheran senior campus to become public housing.
