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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What smart growth groups are not transparent?[/quote]

Greater Greater Washington
Ward 3 Vision
Cleveland Park Smart Growth
to name a few.[/quote]

Ward 3 Vision lists their steering committee right there on the homepage and has pictures of members.  You do a Google search and it lists their address right there as well.
GGW has a link to its staff and lists them all right there
Cleveland Park Smart Growth lists their steering committee right there when you go to the About Us section.

Chevy Chase Conservancy...they list NOTHING.[/quote]

Only GGW provides some information on governance but (as a whole DCUM thread makes clear) provides very little transparency on their funding sources.  Ward 3 Vision and CP Growth aren't real organizations.  No incorporation, no bylaws, no boards of directors, no disclosures on revenues and funders.  [/quote]

That is because they don't have revenues or funders. They are community groups. Neighbors like you and me.[/quote]

Uh huh.[/quote]

Believe it or not, people do actually volunteer because they believe in something.

Prove that there is money involved.[/quote]

This line of discussion went off track.  Let's retrace:
1. Somebody suggested that it an organization that is listed on an official document supporting historic designation should disclose who runs it.  This seems wholly reasonable.
2. Somebody responded with the non sequitur that smarth growth organizations are not transparent
3. Somebody responded with links to exactly that transparency about the people running smart growth groups
4. Somebody responded with an additional non sequitur about funding.

It was never about funding and never about smart growth groups.  The point is that any organization, even volunteer and even made up of "neighbors" that is formal enough to have a website and be listed on official documents should be transparent about who/how it was formed and organized.
 [/quote]

A local Chevy Chase newsletter published the following:

On October 16, 2023 Chevy Chase resident Mary Rowse, as the authorized representative of the Chevy Chase DC Conservancy (a group established by Chevy Chase residents Mary E. Rowse, Teresa Grana, and Sheryl Blank Barnes)[/quote]

Congrats.  We're saying they should be disclosing who is on their leadership/formation on their personal website.  Jerry does his investigative journalism, but its bad form for a purported local, neighborhood group to not say who they are.[/quote]

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