Commercial areas of Greerton and Windermere flooded in last week's storm could be bumped up Tauranga City Council's stormwater works priority list.
Tauranga's deputy mayor and ward councillor for the area, Kelvin Clout, said the rates levy, which will raise an extra $5 million this year for stormwater relief works, was not targeting the catchment that failed last week.
Cr Clout said he sympathised with the businesses, which clearly had a case to be bumped up the priority list.
Pressure has increased on the council to reorder its priorities for stormwater protection works since the Waimapu River burst its banks, flooding Greerton Park and sending water surging through the Greerton Marist clubrooms and businesses in Roxanne Place and Glenlyon Ave.
New Zealand Lifestyle Imports director Gary Jefferson, whose business is on Glenlyon Ave, said earlier this week his warehouse was hit hard when the drain running behind the building overflowed.