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Montgomery County Maryland Planning Board resigns

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Casey Anderson, chair of the Montgomery County Planning Board, in Forest Grove Park in Silver Spring in 2018. But these many decades later the two counties mostly have independent planning regimes and little coordination when it comes to land use, although the MNCPPC structure still exists and there are some joint functions.

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Difficultly of fomenting institutional change not just a problem for minorities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Because it would bring the executive and legislative branches together, with citizens, and a foundational agenda (from the plan). And he appointed a flunky, someone who worked for the Executive Branch, and therefore the Executive overly shaped the agenda and reduced the independence/objectivity/advocacy capacity of the group.