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Well, the governing body above Montgomery Parks is appointed by the Montgomery County Council and the PG County Executive. So, there's some accountability.  It seems like an awfully strange setup, though. [b] How often does a parks department fall outside the normal municipal/county/state governments?[/b]

In any event, I'm the OP and am probably about as mad as anyone about this.  But, the more I think about it, the less I think it's fair to pin anything on Montgomery Parks.  It is entirely sensible for Montgomery Parks to defer to the Health Officer in the county. If the Health Officer isn't playing nicely, it puts them in an impossible situation.

I don't know how MoCo Rec was able to make a decision to reopen.  Though, I honestly can't even identify a single MoCo Rec playground, so presumably that means they don't have very many, and likely aren't terribly desirable playgrounds under normal circumstances.  Montgomery Parks is a very different situation.  Still, I'd be awfully curious what, if anything, they got from Dr. Gayles' office on playground requirements.[/quote]

M-NCPPC is a state-level agency. If you want to know why, read

Suburb: Planning Politics and the Public Interest

by Royce Hanson.

Montgomery Parks is generally a reactive agency, institutionally/culturally.[/quote]

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