Accusations have flown between Brisbane City Council and state government as they move to approve the Upper Kedron neighbourhood plan.
On Tuesday, council's city planning boss Julian Simmonds accused state government minister Kate Jones of being secretive and going behind the community's back.
Cr Simmonds said the council recently received the draft neighbourhood plan back from state government review with the direction to increase housing density by 50 per cent.
The council sent the revised plan to the state government in December 2016.
The draft plan had already caused controversy after the state government called in the Cedar Woods development, which is included in the plan, after more than 300 submissions were received.
At the time Ms Jones said 980 lots within the development was too dense.
Cr Simmonds said the state government's push to increase density, within the neighbourhood plan, would see the dwellings within Cedar Woods increase to 1500.
"The state government changes can be labelled as nothing short than blatant repudiation of the community's wishes for this site," Cr Simmonds said.
"It's now clear that Minister Jones's promises to the community are literally not worth the paper that they are written on because far from undertaking her commitment to reduce dwelling densities, they have in fact increased them by 50 per cent," Cr Simmonds said.
Councillor Steve Toomey (The Gap) said he had serious concerns about the increase in number of allowable homes.
"I am very concerned to note that the state government has directed council to increase the density in Upper Kedron as part of the Ferny Grove Upper Kedron Neighbourhood Plan, after extensive consultation with the local community," Cr Toomey said.
"In December 2014 council approved a master plan for up to 980 lots in Upper Kedron, which Kate Jones described at the time as an 'unsustainable mega suburb' and raised serious concerns about traffic and environmental impacts.
"Ms Jones vowed that the state government would review the development and gave the commitment to local residents that she would ensure the state government reduced the number of homes at Upper Kedron.
"However, the state government has now instructed council to make changes to the plan that increase the number of new homes that can be built in Upper Kedron from 980 to around 1500, which is a clear breach of trust with our community.
"Council will soon commence the formal public consultation on the state government's changes to the plan. I do not support these state government changes and I urge residents to lodge a submission against the state government's changes to the plan."
Ms Jones said she had been 100 per cent consistent in saying she did not think the local infrastructure could support the new plan released by council to expand the urban footprint at Upper Kedron.
"I encourage local residents to once again register their deep rejection of council's plan," she said.
Property Council of Queensland executive director Chris Mountford said it was disappointing to see the development of housing that was needed to meet Brisbane's growing population being used as a political football.
"This comes the same week the federal Budget not only had housing affordability as a centrepiece, but also pointed to the critical role housing supply plays in maintaining affordability," he said.
"The draft South East Queensland Regional Plan (SEQRP) released by the state last year clearly demonstrates the importance of unlocking housing supply across the region, and particularly in Brisbane.
"The SEQRP highlights the need for around 800,000 new dwellings across the region, with close to 200,000 of these needed in Brisbane by 2041.
"This puts this debate between council and the state into some context. The project in question equates to roughly 0.5 per cent of the dwellings estimated to be required in the Brisbane City Council Area over the next 25 years.
"It is clearly important to get the planning, infrastructure provision and densities right for new developments. It's also critical to engage the community in how their local area will grow and change over time. But the unnecessary political overlay is something you won't find in a council planning scheme or regional plan.
"It is not uncommon for it to take several years, and in some circumstances a decade or more, for new housing developments to traverse the planning and political maze to achieve a workable approval."