Cheh's Ward 3 ANC Gerrymandering
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Anonymous
Asked and answered! |
Anonymous
Fourteen pages in and you still haven't realized that "gerrymandering" doesn't mean what you think it does? |
Anonymous
LOL, no. If you look at the strictures around Smart Growth, it is actually integrated with very tight principals - look at the transects associated with the Congress for New Urbanism as an example. And yes, Smart Growth and Historic Preservation can go hand in hand. The pattern of development on Connecticut Avenue is a strong example - though not the surface parking lot at the Park-N-Shop. |
Anonymous
Then you have not been paying attention. |
Anonymous
Please share where Greater Greater Washington, the Coalition for Smarter Growth or Ward 3 Vision has advocated for the expansion of a single family house project that doesn't include an ADU. |
Anonymous
Cleveland Park Smart Growth, the virtual "organization" chaired by the author of the Ward 3 redistricting plan, recently held a program on development in Ward 3. The moderator at one point invited the panelists to agree with the proposition that historic preservation precludes change and perpetuates exclusion. One of the panelists, who heads the Montgomery County planning department, flatly disagreed and said "historic preservation is not the enemy" of affordable housing or economic development. Based on her experience in various cities, she pointed out how historic preservation can be a tool for thoughtful community development. The panel moderator was visibly uncomfortable and looked as if he had been stricken, like a Russia TV anchor after someone has blurted the truth out loud. |
Anonymous
I wish more cp smart growthers thought like she does instead of making it so divisive. |
Anonymous
Here is the recording of the HPRB hearing. The two ANC commissioners come across as unprepared, disengaged with the issue before the board, and explicitly offering their own views rather than those of the constituents that they are supposed represent. Mr. Fink even suggests that the ANC is not a forum for community engagement. If Woodley Park residents listen to their two commissioners "in action," they likely will have serious questions about whether these commissioners are doing their job. Proposed Marriott Wardman Development 02:45:00 ANC Commissioner Pagats 03:03:00 ANC Commissioner Fink https://play.champds.com/dczoning/event/325 |
Anonymous
The definition of gerrymandering is seeking to achieve a political result by manipulating the boundaries of an electoral constituency. That’s exactly the purpose behind the Smart Growth group’s plan to redistrict Ward 3 ANCs. (How were three individuals connected with one Smart Growth advocacy group appointed to the task force anyway?!) Their gerrymandering scheme splits up cohesive neighborhoods that have been represented by one ANC since the Home Rule Act created ANCs and realigns them around major arterial roads and administrative planning areas where Smart Growth wants increased development density. Their means is to divide and dilute neighborhood voices and the aim is pretty clear: to elect ANC commissioners who will rubber-stamp the aggressive development agenda pushed by the Smart Growth lobby and the DC Office of Planning which is aligned with that lobby. Parts of neighborhoods that today are within one ANC and represented by one commissioner will be split among at least ANCs and multiple commissioners under the Smart Growth gerrymandering. Some blocks would be divided among as many as three different SMDs. One proposed new SMD will be only one block wide in certain blocks yet extend over 1.6 miles, spanning several neighborhoods served by four different public elementary schools. Other proposed SMDs are redrawn in bizarre shapes around the residences of Smart Growth-aligned incumbents to create favorable electoral districts for them. It’s beyond baffling that Councilmember Cheh’s office gave so much latitutde over Ward 3 ANC redistricting to a Trump-Manafort political consultant whose agenda is to advance the interests of Smart Growth development clients. |
Anonymous
| Once again the appointed Ward 3 gerrymandering task force demonstrated their disregard of public opinion and simple process by their actions this week. They released their report on Tuesday morning then then voted to adopt it (with a dissent) on Tuesday evening, but allowed no public comment on their report at the meeting. The task force report endorses the splitting up of Ward 3 neighborhoods, despite the fact that the vast majority of written submissions in the task force record favored keeping neighborhoods intact. Instead, the task force substituted their own agenda to center ANCs on commercial corridors and planning areas, something that exceeded their remit and that no other task force in any other ward has done. This undemocratic result is not surprising, when three of the task force members are connected to a single interest advocacy group. |
Anonymous
| Hold Tricia Duncan accountable. This is how she will run a Council Office - just like Cheh, disdain for the public. |
Anonymous
| You may think the task force is silly and disagree with their process, but how exactly is this gerrymandering? Nearly all the ANC/SMDs, with the exception of the AU campus are majority rich and white. |
Anonymous
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the final salvo
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Anonymous
Note that this lady is on the Board of Directors of the Cleveland Park Historical Society. She isn't just any old unhinged neighbor. Between her, the old lying guy from Foxhall Village, and that gentleman who appeared to complain about students frequenting the Starbucks near his house, it was a banner day for the crazies. |
Anonymous
| Hysterical Society, more like it. |