Cheh's Ward 3 ANC Gerrymandering

[Anonymous]

So CP west of 34th Street is now part of 3A again? Is this the final determination?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So CP west of 34th Street is now part of 3A again? Is this the final determination?

No one really really knows right now because Cheh/Silverman orchestrated a vote without producing a map.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So CP west of 34th Street is now part of 3A again? Is this the final determination?

No one really really knows right now because Cheh/Silverman orchestrated a vote without producing a map.

It's the Silverman map except woodland-normanstone was moved to the Observatory Circle SMD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So CP west of 34th Street is now part of 3A again? Is this the final determination?

Yes. Congratulations. They are now part of the new vibrant City Ridge/Upton Place/mid-Wisconsin Corridor neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So CP west of 34th Street is now part of 3A again? Is this the final determination?

No one really really knows right now because Cheh/Silverman orchestrated a vote without producing a map.

And they vilified Chairman Mendelson for his production of a map three days before the meeting?!? They’re shameless and hypocritical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Cheh/Silverman Amendment passes 10-3.

It is the sunset of the Cleveland Park NIMBY era.

Yesterday: This isn’t about politics and ideology, this is about the law and ensuring equal representation of SMDs.

Today: Haha! Suck it Boomer NIMBYs!

LOL.

You know that Task Force redistricting Tsar Bob Ward mocks them, posting as “Cleveland Park Boomer” among his various Twitter handles and personas?

Thanks for the heads up on that handle. It’s comedic gold.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So CP west of 34th Street is now part of 3A again? Is this the final determination?

No one really really knows right now because Cheh/Silverman orchestrated a vote without producing a map.

And they vilified Chairman Mendelson for his production of a map three days before the meeting?!? They’re shameless and hypocritical.

What the hell were they supposed to do? Produce a time machine? The Cheh/Silverman amendment was effectively to return to the previous map, and the short turnaround was because of Mendelson's 11th hour map.

[Anonymous]

From the text of the amendment:

"This amendment to the Chairman’s ANS simply replaces the Chairman’s language amending the
Ward 3 section of the redistricting bill with the original compromise devised by the
Subcommittee, the Ward 3 Councilmember, and the Ward 3 Redistricting Task Force. It also
addresses one small issue that all groups, including the Chairman, the Task Force, and the
Subcommittee, view as appropriate: incorporating the small Woodland-Normanstone
neighborhood into one SMD. It supports the wishes of the larger Ward 3 community."

[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.

And greed. The principal architect of the gerrymandering, Mr Ward, has worked for clients like the Trump campaign, Paul Manafort, JUUL, the ex-President who fled to Russia during the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, etc. His website states that he creates advocacy groups and develops public strategies on behalf of his clients. He formed Cleveland Park Smart Growth (unincorporated and does not disclose its finances) which supports candidates, including himself and one of the other task force members for the ANC and Beau Finley for Council. Shaping electoral districts that are more likely will elect pro-Smart Growth candidates to the ANC (given “great weight” under DC law in planning, zoning and historic preservation decisions) is a huge win for undisclosed development interests in Ward 3.

[Anonymous]

What happened is not "gerrymandering"

The people who love closest to Wisconsin Avenue will now be part of an ANC that is focused on Wisconsin Avenue. That is the opposite of gerrymadering.

It never made sense that an ANC Commissioenr who lives across the street from the Cathedral had oversight of Connecticut Avenue.

The change fixes that to a degree. Now, the people who live closest to each corridor will have a say in what happens on those corridors. This is a good thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From the text of the amendment:

"This amendment to the Chairman’s ANS simply replaces the Chairman’s language amending the
Ward 3 section of the redistricting bill with the original compromise devised by the
Subcommittee, the Ward 3 Councilmember, and the Ward 3 Redistricting Task Force. It also
addresses one small issue that all groups, including the Chairman, the Task Force, and the
Subcommittee, view as appropriate: incorporating the small Woodland-Normanstone
neighborhood into one SMD. It supports the wishes of the larger Ward 3 community."

It’s disingenuous for Mary Cheh to state that it supports the wishes of the larger Ward 3 community when public comments from the community (whether in the task force record, the Council record, public meetings convened by the Council) have been overwhelmingly against the task force map and the division of established neighborhoods in particular. It is telling that Cheh did not even bother to attend the first Council redistricting hearing and didn’t show up for any of the several public meetings that Mendelson, Bonds, and Silverman convened in Cheh’s own ward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From the text of the amendment:

"This amendment to the Chairman’s ANS simply replaces the Chairman’s language amending the
Ward 3 section of the redistricting bill with the original compromise devised by the
Subcommittee, the Ward 3 Councilmember, and the Ward 3 Redistricting Task Force. It also
addresses one small issue that all groups, including the Chairman, the Task Force, and the
Subcommittee, view as appropriate: incorporating the small Woodland-Normanstone
neighborhood into one SMD. It supports the wishes of the larger Ward 3 community."

It’s disingenuous for Mary Cheh to state that it supports the wishes of the larger Ward 3 community when public comments from the community (whether in the task force record, the Council record, public meetings convened by the Council) have been overwhelmingly against the task force map and the division of established neighborhoods in particular. It is telling that Cheh did not even bother to attend the first Council redistricting hearing and didn’t show up for any of the several public meetings that Mendelson, Bonds, and Silverman convened in Cheh’s own ward.

It will be interesting to see what becomes of the community backlash. There is a strong possibility that this power grab ends up backfiring if the rest is that CP SF homeowners get more engaged.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From the text of the amendment:

"This amendment to the Chairman’s ANS simply replaces the Chairman’s language amending the
Ward 3 section of the redistricting bill with the original compromise devised by the
Subcommittee, the Ward 3 Councilmember, and the Ward 3 Redistricting Task Force. It also
addresses one small issue that all groups, including the Chairman, the Task Force, and the
Subcommittee, view as appropriate: incorporating the small Woodland-Normanstone
neighborhood into one SMD. It supports the wishes of the larger Ward 3 community."

It’s disingenuous for Mary Cheh to state that it supports the wishes of the larger Ward 3 community when public comments from the community (whether in the task force record, the Council record, public meetings convened by the Council) have been overwhelmingly against the task force map and the division of established neighborhoods in particular. It is telling that Cheh did not even bother to attend the first Council redistricting hearing and didn’t show up for any of the several public meetings that Mendelson, Bonds, and Silverman convened in Cheh’s own ward.

It will be interesting to see what becomes of the community backlash. There is a strong possibility that this power grab ends up backfiring if the rest is that CP SF homeowners get more engaged.

LOL. No there isn’t. The people who care about ANC boundaries are already engaged. Everyone else will go about their business and never even know who their ANC rep is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From the text of the amendment:

"This amendment to the Chairman’s ANS simply replaces the Chairman’s language amending the
Ward 3 section of the redistricting bill with the original compromise devised by the
Subcommittee, the Ward 3 Councilmember, and the Ward 3 Redistricting Task Force. It also
addresses one small issue that all groups, including the Chairman, the Task Force, and the
Subcommittee, view as appropriate: incorporating the small Woodland-Normanstone
neighborhood into one SMD. It supports the wishes of the larger Ward 3 community."

It’s disingenuous for Mary Cheh to state that it supports the wishes of the larger Ward 3 community when public comments from the community (whether in the task force record, the Council record, public meetings convened by the Council) have been overwhelmingly against the task force map and the division of established neighborhoods in particular. It is telling that Cheh did not even bother to attend the first Council redistricting hearing and didn’t show up for any of the several public meetings that Mendelson, Bonds, and Silverman convened in Cheh’s own ward.

This is false. The comments from SOME people in Cleveland Park were ovehwelmingly against, but most of the comments supported the corridor focus and the creation of a new Commission.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From the text of the amendment:

"This amendment to the Chairman’s ANS simply replaces the Chairman’s language amending the
Ward 3 section of the redistricting bill with the original compromise devised by the
Subcommittee, the Ward 3 Councilmember, and the Ward 3 Redistricting Task Force. It also
addresses one small issue that all groups, including the Chairman, the Task Force, and the
Subcommittee, view as appropriate: incorporating the small Woodland-Normanstone
neighborhood into one SMD. It supports the wishes of the larger Ward 3 community."

It’s disingenuous for Mary Cheh to state that it supports the wishes of the larger Ward 3 community when public comments from the community (whether in the task force record, the Council record, public meetings convened by the Council) have been overwhelmingly against the task force map and the division of established neighborhoods in particular. It is telling that Cheh did not even bother to attend the first Council redistricting hearing and didn’t show up for any of the several public meetings that Mendelson, Bonds, and Silverman convened in Cheh’s own ward.

This is false. The comments from SOME people in Cleveland Park were ovehwelmingly against, but most of the comments supported the corridor focus and the creation of a new Commission.

Where is your evidence of this? This is flat “disinformatsiya.” The facts are the facts. Written comments in the public record were 6 to 1 against the split of Cleveland Park and in favor of keeping neighborhoods together. Comments overall against the talk force map were even higher, including the crazy carve out of AU from the ANC representing the adjacent neighborhoods. Comment cards and statements at the Council meetings in the ward (one had 200 people) were overwhelmingly against the task force map. According to council staff, the Ward 3 map generated more opposition than any other ANC redistricting issue in the city.