Green nut jobs who vote like MAGA nut jobs when it comes to basic land use regulation like zoning. |
Certainly if there's one demographic that's notoriously underrepresented at public meetings, it's people who own the single-unit detached houses they live in! |
| There are ANCs who got elected with literally 10 votes. |
Actually, one of the persistent issues here is that ANCs tend to be young people who have all the time in the world on their hands, and they schedule meetings at times that are impossible for people with children (who tend to be the ones who live in single family homes) to attend. So, yes, they are underrepresented at these meetings. |
Impossible for people with children to attend? Please do explain which meetings are impossible for people with children to attend. My next question will be why it's impossible for people with children who live in one-unit buildings to attend these meetings, but not impossible for people with children who live in multi-unit to attend these meetings, but first things first. |
All the more reason for you to run for your local ANC, if you're dissatisfied with the current ANC officials. |
I have kids and sometimes I forget how completely clueless people who don't have kids are about what it's like having children, and then I read comments like this, and remember: Oh yeah, they know literally nothing. |
Our ANC schedules meetings during the dinner hour. Typically, I'm rushing from work, to/from kids activities and then trying to get dinner ready then. Such times may work for incels with time on their hands but not for busy parents. |
| ANCs should realize that they are a glorified 311 service. They are there to tell us why the garbage wasn't collected or how to get rid of a mattress someone left in an alley. That's it. No one elected them to do anything more than stupid grunt work. |
| Our ANC chair has disdain for homeowners and car owners and does not even attempt to hide it. Get involved folks. Make your voices heard. |
Are you a single parent? If not, what is the other parent doing while you are doing this, and why can't the other parent attend the meeting? Also, how old are your children, and if they're not small children, why are you doing things for them that they could do for themselves, every now and then, while you (or their other parent) are at a meeting? |
I'm the PP you're responding to, I have children, and it is precisely because I have children, and have attended a lot of meetings while having children, that I know it's not impossible for people with children to attend meetings. |
Not sure which ANC you are in but that’s the opposite of ours. Meetings are at 7pm and many people with children attend (and many commissioners/committee members have kids too). |
If it's the same chairperson as in our ANC, she's bonkers. |
God help us! Even more bike lanes would be better than that. |