Why the RMA must go

Stuff reports:

The small town of Wānaka will not have a McDonald’s restaurant after a resource consent application was declined.

Independent commissioners released their decision on the proposed McDonald’s restaurant on Wednesday.

They said the adverse effects of the proposed restaurant on the environment would be more than minor on the approach to Wānaka, the landscape character and the visual amenity values of Mt Iron.

This is just crazy – both that McDonalds had to spend a year fighting to get resource consent, let alone that they didn’t get it.

They argued there was a large roundabout at the site with five arms, and development happening around it.

There was also existing resource consent for a service station development, nine worker-accommodation units and 13 houses next to the site.

I know that roundabout. It’s a great location for a McDonalds.