Planning in southeastern Wisconsin has been legendarily bungled for years - - but the revelation that the vaunted regional freeway expansion plan doesn't contain funding for an interchange for Pabst Farms' shopping mall is a doozy.
Planning in Western Waukesha County has long been the nearly-private preserve of a handful of powerful interests.
A Pabst Farms' initial consultant was Ruekert & Mielke, the same firm that has done water supply studies for both fast-growing Waukesha and New Berlin, and is also managing the regional planning commission's (SEWRPC) three-year-long water supply study.
Dan Warren, Pabst Farms project manager, is the chairman of the Waukesha Water Utility commission.
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