"We delayed it because of other priorities, particularly in the infrastructure around sewerage, for example.
"So we put it on the backburner but it's timely again that we revisit it.
"It's been well over 20 years, I imagine, since we have looked at that and it does need tidying up, and it's the degree of what we need to do. We will be working with businesses, with Lands Trust and other commercial users and property owners in the CBD, so it will be a collaborative approach."
She said the budget of $3-4 million is precautionary and may not amount to as much as the council has accounted for.
"It may not need anywhere near the amount of money that we put in the long term plan but, again, because it is a long term plan we have to signal an amount," she said.
"So we've done up no plans that say it's going to cost 3 or 4 million dollars - we don't know that yet and we won't know that until we work out what is needed.
"We really want to make Masterton attractive to people who want to come into our CBD, and retail is highly competitive, so we have to make the environment attractive to draw people in.
"We can't control what businesses may or may not exist and we can't control where they go in the CBD," Mrs Patterson said.
