There's confidence the right balance can be found when it comes to housing intensification in Auckland. 

A public meeting was held in Mt Eden last night, over proposals to allow 10 to 15-storey developments near transport hubs and town centres. 

Most of the meeting was civil, but things got tense when a young planning student suggested older people were standing in the way of change. 

Mt Hobson Group urban planning expert Hamish Firth told Kerre Woodham he thinks the city have high-rise buildings and keep the character. 

He says Auckland has six months to a year to discuss this like adults, to get it right. 

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