In my area, the Smart Growth meetings are held quietly by a small group of avowed socialists and Marxists. I do not think they are funded, at all, at this point. They write letters to the editor, push various projects at the town and county Board levels and once a year or so, advertise an open meeting.
This is an area slated by Agenda 21 to be “extremely limited human use.” We are essentially an area of small family farms with a huge organic dairy and many, many organic farms, all of which support the left. Evidently, they do not see that they, themselves, will be marginalized and if they do, they may figure they will be retired before it happens and they will simply sell their land to one of various NGOs that turn around and sell it to government, who then take it out of production. If they are wealthy, they donate it to a conservancy, for the tax reduction. Dennis Hastert did just that last week.
This seems counter productive to the narrative of ending hunger in the world; to take productuve land out of farming.
I swear i do not get marxist/socialists/
I only mentioned the EPS fuding Smart Growth becuuse if you go to their web site and scraoll to the bottom you see the EPA mentioned
it isn’t clear what the connection is but it wouldn’t surprise me if some of our taxpayer money helped fund this whacked group