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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Independent agencies aren't that uncommon.  And I can almost understand why you'd have one for zoning/planning (though, the idea of unelected leaders making those decisions is personally disturbing).

What I don't get is why they'd put parks under this.

[b]I'm not going to buy and read a 500 page book,[/b] but there's some more information here:
https://sites.google.com/view/suburbanization/how-montgomery-county-grew

It doesn't really address why parks fell under the commission, as opposed to the county.  Apparently E. Brooke Lee fought to put it under the commission, as opposed to the respective counties.  Again, it seems like a bad idea to create unelected, and nearly unaccountable, leaders responsible for that.[/quote]

That's a shame, because it's a good book. You can borrow it from the library, when the library opens again.

Meanwhile, why is Parks part of M-NCPPC? Because parks are part of land-use planning. M-NCPPC owns a lot of land, especially in the stream valleys. That didn't just somehow randomly happen. It was part of the suburban development of Montgomery County.[/quote]

If you're serious, and it's not as absurdly dry as the topic sounds, then I'll get it.

From the reading I've been able to do, it sounds like Montgomery County wanted to manage its own parks, but Brooke Lee fought it.  I could get why *establishing* parks would be part of the development/planning process, but in other places don't the parks ultimately get managed by a municipal or county agency?[/quote]

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