A set of documents on a single USB stick could determine the future of our largest city and the value of every property in the region.

Final recommendations on the region's Unitary Plan will be made public next Wednesday afternoon.

Aucklanders will be able to find out exactly what zoning changes are being proposed for their properties when it is posted on the Auckland Council website.

An independent panel has drafted the 30-year regional plan based on 250 public meetings and 1.5 million submission points.

It will hand over thousands of pages of planning rules, zone maps and explanations on a USB stick to council chief executive Stephen Town on Friday.

The council will release it to the public on Wednesday next week, allowing people to know exactly what zone is being proposed for every property in the region.

Councillors can vote to change parts of the plan during a six-day meeting next month.

However, any changes they make will require an explanatory report and a full cost benefit analysis.

The Government has indicated it make take action or even change the law to make sure sound parts of the plan are adopted.

The Unitary Plan by numbers

- The Unitary Plan is a book of rules for what can be done and built in 4,894 square kilometre Auckland region

- The submission period lasted 6 months, making it the city's most extensive submission period in history

- An independent hearings panel of 11 people appointed by the Environment Minister and Conservation Minister

- It has been considering a 6961 page proposed plan written by Auckland Council

- It has received 9443 public submissions in the first round of submission and 3951 further submissions in the second round

- A total of 249 public meetings were held and a total of 21,210 pieces of written feedback were received

- The panel considered 1,493,600 separate submission points on the plan, making it one of the largest democratic processes in New Zealand history

- The panel held 249 days of hearings on 70 topics over 21 months

- It sat through over 4000 appearances by submitters and received over 10,000 pieces of evidence

- It will present one USB stick to the council on Friday 22 July with a recommended plan

- It will also justify its plans with 60 reports of explanations totally about 1000 pages

- The council will have 20 working days to make and publicly notify its decisions about the whole plan, by Friday 19 August

- That includes up to six days of council meetings between Wednesday 10 August to Thursday 18 August

- The final plan will be published on Friday 19 August and the Government is considering legislation to compel councillors to pass the plan

- There will be another 20 working days where people limited rights for people to appeal the plan through the Environment Court or High Court by Friday 16 September

- There is no set operative date for the Unitary Plan