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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Rooting for a White Sox Brewers World Series. Every game the fans would just dap each other up and go “fuck the cubs, right!?

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Man, can’t wait till they find about this horseless carriage thing.

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This should be time stamped to me for the full discussion. Starts about 16m30s. I was supposed to talk for 10 minutes, they hit me for 20 minutes of questions afterwards. The speaker afterwards provides a alternate planning philosophy than mine. www.openpublica.com/meetings/lou...

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Louisville, Kentucky Metro Council & Committees - October 6, 2026 | Open Publica

Watch the Louisville, Kentucky Metro Council & Committees from October 6, 2026. Key topics: Data Center Regulation, Zoning Regulation, Procedural. Full video...

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Joined the Planning and Zoning Committee of Louisville, KY today to talk Data Centers! It went pretty well, I definitely didn't look like a complete idiot! I advised, hey maybe set some standards beforehand. Newscast could have picked a better soundbite, though. www.whas11.com/video/news/c...

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hah, not even originally from here. Im from VA originally! There we had just, regular outdoor waterparks. But I hear these parks are expanding, as millennial parents are increasingly hesistent to let their children free range unsupervised! Turns out, there’s not that many kid friendly 3rd spaces

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Open? That’s their prime season! It is absolutely gangbusters in there Dec-Jan.

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

To put a finer point on it: 1 hyperscale data center could heat all of the indoor water parks in Wisconsin Dells on a -10 degree day. 10 times over. We’re not having the right conversation. It shouldn’t be: do I hate creepy AI art, it should be, why aren’t these heating our houses?

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🧐 Feb 2024 Judge: “that’s why I wrote this… you can appeal it and frame your arguments around the Court’s decision.” Sep 2026, same judge: “there is no evidence that this Court intended the 2/12/24 decision and order to be anything other than… a [non-appealable] decision denying reconsideration” 🧐

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yeah, exactly. You build stacked flats, the bottom unit doesn't have stairs. I have gotten a ton of ranch housing concept plans, and the inefficiency is mind boggling. Even with attached houses, the amount of (two sided!) street per unit is well about 60 linear feet.

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I see a lot of pushback, maybe organic, maybe farmed, against the City of Milwaukee alders asking and voting for a 8% raise. Say what you will about the optics of approving your own pay raise... You couldn't pay me $40 an hour to sit through a 10 hour License Committee meeting.

A list of past committees meeting times and lengths of those sessions

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Exactly! I mean, think about a private party train, essentially a cruise via rails, with hopefully less contagious diseases. They probably would have to tone down the horn blasting, unless it was timed and tuned to the quad city DJ’s masterpiece: C’mon n’ Ride It (The train)

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C'mon and Ride It, The Choo Choo Train Dance

ALT: C'mon and Ride It, The Choo Choo Train Dance

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

True, i wonder have they ever had like a two stop platform? Like stop for 1/2, pull forward for a bit, then load. Back in the day it was just “jump off the train, try not to break anything” Or heck, pre load them in a pit lane and just attach the cars, no passenger boarding at all.

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’ve always said it’d be cool if we went old school and allowed people to attach personal/private cars on trains still like in the steam engine westward expansion days. Hitch up your wagon, relax and enjoy the scenery. It would also compete with the 1st class ticket profit airlines currently have.

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I like the voice mode because it lets me search up stuff and work on stuff while driving. But, I use the Sean bean voice.

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Not trying to shame the locality, only the policy, so professional decorum leads me to discretion in this instance

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I would challenge any planner to come up with an objective, evidence based, provable explanation for those different ratios. To top it off, requiring the MOST parking for DRINKING establishments should actually be a crime, and I'm not joking. If they wanna provide it, fine. But mandating it?!?

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Proposed zoning code update. (anonymized) Why are we still doing this? Proposed MINIMUM parking standards: Convenient cash business? 1 per 500 SF Gen Retail or Tobacco? 1 / 400 SF Sexually based business or grocery store? 1 / 300 SF. Craft Beer? 1 / 250 SF Bar or Tavern? 1 / 150 square feet !!

Table 7-1: Minimum Required Off-Street Parking Table

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I would like to see him *try* to evict them.

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

What’s most shocking to me about this take is that it seems that she’s assuming our built environment is engineered FOR e-bikes and e-scooters?

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

When did “military complex” become a part of it? And since when do “military” things become not a part of the U.S. government, or funded by private donors?

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

So, it’s likely they caught them for the test for 30 minutes to an hour. If they were running power off diseal generators, the constant fuel trucks going in and out would be the bigger giveaway. I think like one tanker truck an hour or something like that.

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

no she wouldn't. Buses go slower and have flat fronts.

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Honestly, I wish the court would use LLM's more to read papers. At least then something would actually have read the filings in the first place.

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I mean, I don't think he's talking about Medicare for all or Abolish ICE, here. I think he's talking about the more "out there" stuff that Hong herself tried to distance from as soon as it was causing friction. Remember, a governor doesn't actually write legislation, they just sign it.

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Well, that's because if you "orient" your head a certain way, it does look like the architecture of the far east...

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Whoa nelly. 100k? I don't think I'd pay those prices for housing directly on the Hellmouth! Also I'm thinking Sheetz v. County of El Dorado part II may render this crap a thing of the past.

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Man, I think Act 12 is really gonna help him here. He simply cannot be painted as someone who's unreasonable to work with. He's got executive level experience, literally Scott Walkers exact resume. Except you know... Crowley graduated from college.

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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A bicycle roundabout inside a motor vehicle roundabout

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

3 sacks as a NOSE TACKLE!?! Whoa boy.

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I mean, Mamdani was squeaky clean. Honestly, governor is a boring manager job. Hong is best at advocating for legislation, something she can do in the assembly. But the assembly doesn't pay anything. I actually talked to her one time about a National Guard type job protection/pay minimum.

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

They did everything they could to lose, though! Honestly, a bog standard DSA member of the assembly with no social media history would have won this one. Y'all need boring legislators, not activist provocateurs.

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I certainly didn't like Evers endorsing. But I think that was more of a way to legitimize David getting back in the race after Rodriguez imploded. It's so close that any one of the small missteps or bad breaks in the last week or so could have been the decisive one.

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

That’s probably a good way to look at it. I am not looking forward to all the posts about how the “establishment” sabotaged Hong when the “establishment” did everything they possibly could to give it to her barring not contesting it at all. In alternate reality, Rodriguez probably wins handedly.

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

You know I think we lost this one, guys.

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Just one more lane bro When 12 lanes isn’t good enough for Fredericksburg VA

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Oh the sewer socialists greatly expanded the cities physical boundaries, and in doing so expanded city services while building suburban styling housing. It’s result is what you’d expect, economic catastrophe.

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

oh, yeah. It's not a thing, and we're responding to it too much. I mean, the division should be skill/danger/size based, not specifically sex based. no one has a problem with girls playing in boys basketball leagues at ages when they're taller than most boys.

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Oh, god. I’ve be anti Times since Comey Hillary Emails. They’re insidious. I’m dead serious when I say the “conservative biased media” these days. Cuz who owns the media?

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Well, we can all agree that as a country the problem here is that some folk go "hey why are they getting health care and I'm not" or "why do they get it for free" As opposed to "of course everyone gets health care"

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Yeah, exactly. We invite some of the bad faith tho. Because overall, Academia is an Achilles heel here, b/c research always wants to invent new terms/conditions & push discussion boundaries way outside normie views. And then bad faith media takes it and runs it on "this is how normie libs think"

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Messaging like "Be who you wanna be, love who you wanna love, and still have equal life opportunities as everyone else" "Oh, and the freedom to poop and pee in peace" Would play pretty well. But is that conceding the framing? (sad it needs a "given consent" disclaimer here, but...)

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Also sad similar that the right thing will lose until society just adjusts. But that invites fights about Overton window pushing, tone-policing, etc. Like, are sports that important? No. Does anyone like public multi person restrooms? Also no. Are these arguments bad faith to start? Yes.

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It was specifically moved from District 4 to District 2. Tells you all you need to know.

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Robin Palm, AICP @bourbonplanner.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Gotta love Wisconsin's elected Appeals judges! 3 reversals out of District II today. Abbotsford Education Association v. WI Employment Comm - Act 10 Case ** Reversed. ** DNC v. Boehm / RNC extension of voting hours due to delays **Reversed. ** Pellegrini v. WEC **reversed for lack of standing**

Wisconsin County Map highlighting the counties that make up COurt of Appeals District II: Calumet, Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Kenosha, Manitowoc, Ozaukee, Racine, Sheboygan, Walworth, Washington, Waukesha, and Winnebago

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Housing Affordability Institute @housing-inst.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Michigan single-stair reforms signed into law www.housingwire.com/articles/whi...

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