Cheh's Ward 3 ANC Gerrymandering

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wrong. The ANC rep for the part of the neighborhood between Reno/34th and Wisconsin - the only ANC rep we get to vote for - will be cut out of having any day on the many issues arising from the area between Reno/34th St and Connecticut Ave.

If you live between CT and Reno, you will have a commissioner who represents your issues. If you live between Reno and Wisconsin, you will have a commissioner who represents your issues. Why should someone who lives a block from Wisconsin have sway over what happens on Connecticut Ave?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s blatant gerrymandering to cut out the voices- voters and ANC reps - who are interested in more reasonable growth in Cleveland Park. Members of the Task Force have not been shy about sharing their pro-development agendas and undermining historic preservation in Cleveland Park for years. People whose views differ volunteered for the Task Force and were rejected. The folks behind the gerrymandering don’t like the opinions held by many of the voters who live in homes between Wisconsin and Connecticut so their solution is to cut half of them out of having any say about what happens in Cleveland Park below Reno Toad/34th St. It doesn’t seem to bother the Task Force members that citizens being cut out send their kids to the public school on 34th St and will no longer have an ANC rep who has a vote over what happens at the school, or the traffic surrounding the school. (The Task Force member who lives in Cleveland Park sends his kids to private school). The Cleveland Park citizens being cut out rely on the fire station and Metro on Connecticut Ave and frequent the stores and restaurants in Connecticut Ave. The Task Force is severing a long established and cohesive neighborhood for their own selfish political agenda. Sheer stupidity.

ANC's have no vote on what happens at public schools or on the traffic at those schools.

[Anonymous]

Our ANC rep has been very involved and responsive about matters relating to the public school in our neighborhood- renovation, traffic around school, rodent problems, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wrong. The ANC rep for the part of the neighborhood between Reno/34th and Wisconsin - the only ANC rep we get to vote for - will be cut out of having any day on the many issues arising from the area between Reno/34th St and Connecticut Ave.

If you live between CT and Reno, you will have a commissioner who represents your issues. If you live between Reno and Wisconsin, you will have a commissioner who represents your issues. Why should someone who lives a block from Wisconsin have sway over what happens on Connecticut Ave?

Your agenda to dilute the vote if homeowners is so transparent. Look at a map. These ANC redistricting changes impact the entire area between Connecticut and Wisconsin. As someone who is about to be disenfranchised I’ll tell you I care about having a vote in matters relating to things happening a few blocks from me between Connecticut and Reno/34th- our public school, all the traffic that flows through both parts of our neighborhood, the fire station, the bike lanes, the green spaces, the restaurants, stores, and many more things. The public school, for example, sits in the middle, on the eastern side of Reno Road/34th Street, but neighbors whose kids go there or who are impacted by construction plans, rodents, traffic patterns, parking issues, etc. will no longer have a representative who can formally weigh in and be responsible for these matters. That is just one example.

[Anonymous]

You are not being disenfranchised. Your hystrionic hyperbole undermines your position, bigly.

You still have a vote. Your ANC will still weigh in on matters related to your community. And like every other condition across the District, where there are matter of joint concern across multiple ANC Commissions, they will coordinate and work together, so you will actually have more than one Commission weighing in on issues giving actually multiple bites at the apply on any issue of multiple concern.

Your privilege is showing when this is the you big worry in life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our ANC rep has been very involved and responsive about matters relating to the public school in our neighborhood- renovation, traffic around school, rodent problems, etc.

They can offer their opinion but they have no formal vote. They can't block anything from happening. The executive branch can say, "thank you for you're opinion, we'll give it 'Great Weight' in our decision making" and do what they were going to do anyway.

[Anonymous]

This.

"great weight" is a crock. funny someone seems to be so vested in it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This.

"great weight" is a crock. funny someone seems to be so vested in it

All this over ANCs, the most toothless local government position in the city (and maybe the country)?

Someone needs a hobby.

[Anonymous]

Hey, when you live in DC and have so little representation on the state and federal level, these things matter.

[Anonymous]

Reading this makes me hope crazy Reps succeed in repealing the Home Rule. F it, how much worse could it be? Probably better to be run by Congress than by the motley crew drawn to the local gvt now.

One bright exception: love Karl Racine

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are not being disenfranchised. Your hystrionic hyperbole undermines your position, bigly.

You still have a vote. Your ANC will still weigh in on matters related to your community. And like every other condition across the District, where there are matter of joint concern across multiple ANC Commissions, they will coordinate and work together, so you will actually have more than one Commission weighing in on issues giving actually multiple bites at the apply on any issue of multiple concern.

Your privilege is showing when this is the you big worry in life.

NP: How is it 'privilege" to care about your neighborhood? That's as base as it gets.

[Anonymous]

I’m worried that the neighborhood commissions are drunk on power — basically rejecting any progress wherever they can

Like, why is a pool in the back a problem? Bring on the Congress rule. Please

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wrong. The ANC rep for the part of the neighborhood between Reno/34th and Wisconsin - the only ANC rep we get to vote for - will be cut out of having any day on the many issues arising from the area between Reno/34th St and Connecticut Ave.

If you live between CT and Reno, you will have a commissioner who represents your issues. If you live between Reno and Wisconsin, you will have a commissioner who represents your issues. Why should someone who lives a block from Wisconsin have sway over what happens on Connecticut Ave?

Your agenda to dilute the vote if homeowners is so transparent. Look at a map. These ANC redistricting changes impact the entire area between Connecticut and Wisconsin. As someone who is about to be disenfranchised I’ll tell you I care about having a vote in matters relating to things happening a few blocks from me between Connecticut and Reno/34th- our public school, all the traffic that flows through both parts of our neighborhood, the fire station, the bike lanes, the green spaces, the restaurants, stores, and many more things. The public school, for example, sits in the middle, on the eastern side of Reno Road/34th Street, but neighbors whose kids go there or who are impacted by construction plans, rodents, traffic patterns, parking issues, etc. will no longer have a representative who can formally weigh in and be responsible for these matters. That is just one example.

I live in that area, can you give me a link to what they are proposing. First I'm hearing of this. We used to have reps who sent weekly emails for about a decade, but after the last election, I've heard nothing at all from the ANC.

[Anonymous]

It’s like everything goes as long as it’s a moldy Dutch Colonial

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are not being disenfranchised. Your hystrionic hyperbole undermines your position, bigly.

You still have a vote. Your ANC will still weigh in on matters related to your community. And like every other condition across the District, where there are matter of joint concern across multiple ANC Commissions, they will coordinate and work together, so you will actually have more than one Commission weighing in on issues giving actually multiple bites at the apply on any issue of multiple concern.

Your privilege is showing when this is the you big worry in life.

NP: How is it 'privilege" to care about your neighborhood? That's as base as it gets.

Caring about your neighborhood is one thing. Fighting over what appears to be a rational proposal like it is the line between Donbass and Ukraine borders on insane.