Late-night and early morning parking bans are likely on Ahuriri's wharf to curb "tanked up" youths storming the streets near the popular bar quarter.
Napier City Council's Regulatory Committee adopted a report recommending the ban at a meeting this week. It proposed parking be banned from 11pm-5am on Friday and Saturday nights, as an attack on a problem councillor Mark Herbert attributed to "pre-loaded" young revellers drinking in and around vehicles, breaching the area's liquor ban.
Mr Herbert, an apartment dweller in the area who also operates East Pier Bar and Bistro on Hardinge Rd's seafront, said the revellers converged from the south late at night, already "tanked-up" but sitting in vehicles drinking from supplies bought from supermarkets and bottle stores elsewhere in the city. He said young drinkers concealed their cans and bottles when police were present, and when officers moved on the cans and bottles were out again and the party continued.
"It's out of control," Mr Herbert said. He claimed masses of cartons, bottles, cans and other evidence of what had gone during the night were left strewn on the ground.
His morning walks through the area were through what he described as a "septic hole".