The sale is on the agenda for the council meeting on Tuesday, July 13 following a public forum where eight speakers are expected to present their views on the proposed sale.

Council planning and sustainability director Lindsay Usher said some community members did not have the full story and the land sale had been on the cards for a number of years.

"If you go to Dalmeny now and drive to this area, some of those roads stop at the boundary where you'd expect them to go on continuing into that release area, and that was always the intention," he said.

"While those earlier planning stages did happen many years ago, now the take up is requiring that we start to move into those new release areas."

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The land proposed for sale is at 16 Tatiara Street and backs onto Elanora Street, Thomson Parade and Lonsdale Parade.

Despite a lengthy discussion at a council meeting last month followed by a community information session held in Dalmeny, some community advocates said the very end of the council's tenure was not the time to decide on a land sale.

Narooma resident Rob Christie said people left the public information session held in Dalmeny earlier this month with unanswered questions.

"I don't think people went away feeling overly confident in the process," he said.

"I believe the proper outcome would be for the sale to be deferred until after the next council sits and it's only fair the new councillors be given the opportunity to consider what needs to go ahead."

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Yet Mr Usher said planning and development was not dependent on political terms.

"If we were in a situation where we threw everything out at the end of each term and started again, very little would ever happen," he said.

"Often this long term strategic planning can send us over multiple political cycles and that's normal, and will always be the case."

The Dalmeny land proposed for sale is operational land, meaning it is owned by council, and residentially zoned.

"In the background, there's a planning process that needs to happen and that process will happen whether the council owns the land or not," Mr Usher said.

The planning process would tick off a number of elements such as:

Mr Usher said the planning process needed to happen after the land was sold and there would be community consultation.

"Ultimately, council will need to adopt a development control plan, which will guide that development going forward as a result of the consultation, so there's a lot of work still to happen," he said.

"As we move forward and go into those more detailed design processes and planning processes, there'll be more community engagement."

The council's reason for the land sale was to increase affordable housing at a time when there was a critical shortage of both rental and owner occupied accommodation.

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Mr Usher said the Eurobodalla Shire would continue to grow and council needed to prepare to manage that growth.

"At some point, you have to make a decision one way or the other about how you're going to meet that growth and provide for our community going forward," he said.

"We're already hearing stories of people who are trying to move here because they've got jobs, and they can't find accommodation.

"We've experienced that ourselves with council where staff are living in caravans because they can't find accommodation.

"That problem is only going to get worse if we don't start to bring land online and make it available."

While the council makes all planning documents, settlement strategy, local environment plans and development application tracker public on its website, Mr Usher said help understanding these documents was a phone call away.

"I think sometimes people move into areas, they maybe don't do that broader homework around where they're moving to," he said.

"Then when things happen, it is a shock to them, but it shouldn't be because the information is available."

"The information is there, but if you can't find it, ring up and ask because we're always happy to help you find it or direct you to it."