Everything else could come together to address the housing crisis, once the Unitary Plan is finally in place.

Councillors have finished deliberating on the 30-year rule book, but there could be weeks of legal wrangling before the plan is finally signed off.

Property Council chief executive Connal Townsend said that day can't come soon enough.

He said the plan will open land up for development, which could allow other issues like the shortage of labour and materials to be addressed.

He says "providing supply [of land] won't completely solve the problem" but it could put relief on the "crazy bubbling boiling pot" of high land prices.

"Builders are going to have the certainty to actually to plan to deliver product and build Auckland."

Councillors have made a raft of changes to the independent hearing panel's recommended plan, and their new version will be released on Friday.

But submitters then have four weeks to lodge appeals to any of those changes through the Environment Court.

A range of affected submitters could appeal changes they may not be happy with, like developers whose developments councillors have rejected.

Connal Townsend says the Property Council will not rule out appealing some minor changes, but it would like to see most of the plan go through unchanged.

"My personal view is I hope it doesn't win up in any of further litigation. I think it's a pretty good piece of work. It's not perfect in our view, but it's near enough to pretty good for us to be pretty satisfied.

"We've been really served by the elected councillors and by the staff who drove it through... they've stuck to the original vision that Auckland Council set when it came into being over five years ago."

Connal Townsend says the worst of the housing shortage could be addressed within just five years.

1. Councillors have rejected changes to stormwater rules

Councillors rejected the panel's recommendations to remove a land use rule around stormwater runoff into stormwater and combined sewer networks, amend the permitted status for sites that do not discharge to a stream, amend the status of roads within the stormwater management areas flow, deleted the default activity status for non-compliant roads and motorways, amend general standards for sites and roads, amend the hydrology mitigation requirements for some roading projects and deleting what "redevelopment of a road" means.

The council also rejected a recommendation to change the definition of heights, because it would impose width and height limits on some structures that would be unworkable.

2. Councillors have voted against heritage and sustainability rules, but made an exception for the Symonds Street flats

Councillors agreed to remove policies which protect and manage significant historic heritage, which has not been scheduled. However, they agreed to find a way to include the Symonds Street flats in the schedule of historic heritage. Councillors also agreed to delete Auckland-wide objectives, polices and rules for sustainable design.

3. Councillors have rejected development of Okura Estuary

On Friday, councillors rejected the independent hearings panel's recommendations to extend the rural urban boundary at Okura, despite council staff supporting the recommendation.

Friday's first #UnitaryPlan vote on extending rural urban boundary at Okura. Councillors await options. @NewstalkZB pic.twitter.com/8YU9FtZE4m

— Michael Sergel (@michaelsergel) August 14, 2016

On Monday, councillors rejected the panel's recommendations to relating to the extension of the Rural Urban Boundary north of the Vaughans Road ridgeline into the Okura catchment at a location to the east of Okura village. They rejected the Panel’s recommendations to rezone about 30 hectares of land north of Vaughans Road from lifestyle block zones to urban and open zones, and to potentially create a new precinct. They voted instead to amend the rules around minimum and minimum average net site areas to include a minimum net site area and average net site area without transferable rural site subdivision, of 4 hectares to land known as Okura East, and add new controls to land east of Okura.

4. Councillors have voted to remove mandatory minimum parking limits

A majority of councillors have voted against minimum parking rates for commercial, high density residential and mixed use zones, and minimum parking rates for inner and outer cores.

5. Councillors voted for and against several other changes

Councillors rejected a recommendation to remove front fence and streetscape rules for residential zones. They also rejected a recommendation to increase the extent of the National Grid corridor overlay around 110kv and 220kv lines. However, they voted to adopt recommendations on removing some Waitakere Ranges rules which are unnecessary or already covered by other rules or bylaws. They also agreed to deleting the High Land Transport Noise Overlay.