Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby

For as long as I’ve been in talk radio, I’ve been talking to people about RMA reform - and I’ve been in talk radio since 1996.  The Resource Management Act was introduced in 1991 and it has ballooned into an albatross around our necks. To comply you need to pay a fortune. To check your compliance authorities, have to spend weeks reviewing your plans.  So today we learn what comes next. Now the reason the RMA grew like a cancerous growth around our progress is simple: too many people took too many liberties and caused too much damage.  Worrying about their margins, they took shortcuts, and then projects failed. Like so many laws, we had to take into account the lowest common denominator: the developer who did it cheap, did it bad, and then liquidated the company to leave others to clean up the mess. That experience is why many will not welcome a simplification of the rules today, but the overcompensation for the bad actors has cost us all too much.  Today I'll be looking for the efficiencie