Public Interest Law Firm Questions Pabst Farms Planning Assumptions

Midwest Environmental Advocates, a public interest law firm, has raised several objections to an air quality permit under consideration by state environmental regulators for the Pabst Farms shopping mall (delayed, and once-cancelled, fyi), pointing out that it is impossible to predict the traffic and resulting air pollution to be generated because the mall planners have yet to announce which stores will be mall tenants.

Sounds reasonable, right?

Well, not really, say the experts, citing the reliability of a computer model and some old-fashioned jargony mumbo-jumbo.

More information - - here.

The MEA raised other objections and questions, but I am predicting that the permit will be issued under the state agency's review-and-dismiss operating procedure.