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Jo Learmonth: Wānaka Business Chamber Chair on the potential impact of a McDonald's in the city · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: After far too much time and energy and money on
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  Speaker 2: arguing about Hamburger's and Mount Iron, their application to open
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  Speaker 2: locally was turned down. Of course, Wanic a business chamber
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  Speaker 2: board share Joe liamoeth is with us Jovery, Good morning
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  Speaker 2: to you, Good morning Mike. Did the chamber submit, No,
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  Speaker 2: we did not.
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  Speaker 3: It's not air role to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's not Health New Zealand's role either, But they submitted.
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  Speaker 2: Every manner's dog submitted. What to forget the result? But
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  Speaker 2: what are shambles of a process? Do we really have
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  Speaker 2: that much time, money and energy to get to do
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  Speaker 2: this sort of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think it's the shambles of a process. All
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  Speaker 3: resource consents processes that the similarity to open up for
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  Speaker 3: public submissions or not, depending on the details of the consent.
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  Speaker 3: So it's not a shambala. It's obviously just whatught a
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  Speaker 3: bit more of attention than probably a normal resource concent application.
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  Speaker 2: What's the vibe in the town? Pollwise, have you ran
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  Speaker 2: a pole is as popular or not?
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  Speaker 1: So?
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  Speaker 3: We obviously represent the business community. To not necessarily a
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  Speaker 3: vibe by the town, but the business community. If we're
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  Speaker 3: about three hundred members, so we ran a survey to
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  Speaker 3: be able to understand I guess the sentiment of AIR
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  Speaker 3: members regarding the topic, given that it's a generated a
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  Speaker 3: reasonable amount of significant local discussion.
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  Speaker 2: Not to mention national discussion. What was the result of
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  Speaker 2: your survey.
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  Speaker 3: So I guess the sentiment is that probably like AIR membership,
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  Speaker 3: which is reasonably diverse and presents a range of perspectives
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  Speaker 3: on the development, the sentiment of the survey is pretty
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  Speaker 3: much the same. It's quite diverse. There are definitely those
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  Speaker 3: who want it, and there's differently those who don't, but
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  Speaker 3: most of them have indicated that it would they don't
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  Speaker 3: see it that it would impact their business or the
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  Speaker 3: business economy in Wannaka.
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  Speaker 2: Is it fair to suggest it's not McDonald's. It's the
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  Speaker 2: Mount Iron country rural town thing, right, So if they
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  Speaker 2: park themselves somewhere else, they might I got away with it.
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  Speaker 3: I think that that is definitely the basis of the
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  Speaker 3: resource content for the decline of the application. So that's
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  Speaker 3: the basis of that, whether or not if they applied
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  Speaker 3: somewhere else, whether the town would have responded differently as
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  Speaker 3: I guess it's unknown, but it's certainly a significant contributor
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  Speaker 3: to the to the opinion of the community.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever had a groomer's shake?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 2: What it is that? Well, well, that's what they sell.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently it's a purple shake at the moment. I've just
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  Speaker 2: looked it up the other day, but I've met no
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  Speaker 2: one who's had one. Joe, nice to talk to you,
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  Speaker 2: appreciate it. Joe Lamoth, who's the what's that? No, what's that?
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  Speaker 2: Wanaka Business Chamber board chair? As I mentioned earlier on,
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  Speaker 2: they've got option to an Option three, which doesn't involve
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  Speaker 2: Mount Iron apparently for
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