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Francesca Rudkin: McDonald's read the room wrong trying to put a restaurant in Wānaka
There’s a Dominos and a Subway, but there will be no McDonald’s in Wānaka - at least at the currently proposed site. Yesterday, Commissioners declined to grant consent for a McDonalds restaurant, largely due to the location.
The proposed location was at the edge of town - where urban meets rural living. It is regarded as outside the urban growth boundary for Wānaka, at one of the town’s entrances, directly underneath magnificent Mt Iron.
A McDonalds was deemed to be at odds with rural living, the design of the building and surroundings not consistent with the landscape values of the site and…
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