Cheh's Ward 3 ANC Gerrymandering

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Anonymous wrote:Cheh has been a lame duck since February, when she announced her withdrawal from the race.

Do you think any of the Ward 3 candidates other than Goulet is more liberal than Cheh? Because they aren't. And Goulet is pretty close. He simply favors more money for Charters and a football stadium.

Honestly it looks down to Frumin (AU park support), Duncan (Palisades), and Goulet (Outside W3 Dark Money). Nobody else has more than 150 local W3 donors. Frumin is a bit more NIMBY than Duncan, but pretty similar overall. Goulet is all over the place, one day he says he is for reducing costs, then he come out in favor of spending money on a stadium for out-of-towners. But he is pro-charter school - which in W3 isn't even an issue (lowest charter use in the city, with no charters in boundary).

As for the makeup council post election?

Hard to say. I think Mendo will win, as will Naidu. W5 will stay progressive with either Faith/Parker. Does Bonds keep her seat? Not clear, she doesn't even really have any name recognition. Honestly, any pronouncements seem too early, unless you have seen polling results that the rest of us haven't.

I don't know where you get this. Frumin got the Lisner project through. He got the lights in at Chevy Chase playground, he got the AU Law school and AU dorms through. Where has he been an obstruction to new development?

He's repeatedly told the NIMBYs in Foxhall and Palisades that he is against building the new elementary school at Hardy Park, and that the new high school at the old GDS campus needs more "community engagement" before we proceed with the mayor's plan. He also didn't lift a finger when residents in his ANC (3C) fought off the development at Super Fresh for years.

The old GDS lower school would be inappropriate for a high school. It doesn’t have a cafeteria. Doesn’t have an auditorium. Only has a small gym and small turf field so no sports. The land is constrained and on the side of a hill so you cannot add anything. It also only has capacity for 500 students.

Aren't they spending 10s of millions to remedy those issues. Still a better use of money than the ellington boondongle.

DCPS needs to tell Ellington to move within a few years. This is the old Western HS site and should be used for a general high school again. Ellington should be more centrally located because it draws from across the city, especially NE and SE. Ideally Ellington should be near an arts venue. DC taxpayers paid through the nose to renovate the Western HS building and it should serve a larger population.

Ellington has the facilities it needs where it has them. It just needs better management

Ok, but upper NW doesn’t have the high school facilities it needs where it needs them.

The best site for a relocate Ellington woukd be the former Jefferson Junior High School site, now called “Jefferson academy, “in Southwest, which is transit accessible, centrally located, and — here’s the kicker — close to Arena stage.

Wait, why would we relocate Ellington? It’s a gorgeous school. It just needs to serve its students well.

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Anonymous wrote:Cheh has been a lame duck since February, when she announced her withdrawal from the race.

Do you think any of the Ward 3 candidates other than Goulet is more liberal than Cheh? Because they aren't. And Goulet is pretty close. He simply favors more money for Charters and a football stadium.

Honestly it looks down to Frumin (AU park support), Duncan (Palisades), and Goulet (Outside W3 Dark Money). Nobody else has more than 150 local W3 donors. Frumin is a bit more NIMBY than Duncan, but pretty similar overall. Goulet is all over the place, one day he says he is for reducing costs, then he come out in favor of spending money on a stadium for out-of-towners. But he is pro-charter school - which in W3 isn't even an issue (lowest charter use in the city, with no charters in boundary).

As for the makeup council post election?

Hard to say. I think Mendo will win, as will Naidu. W5 will stay progressive with either Faith/Parker. Does Bonds keep her seat? Not clear, she doesn't even really have any name recognition. Honestly, any pronouncements seem too early, unless you have seen polling results that the rest of us haven't.

I don't know where you get this. Frumin got the Lisner project through. He got the lights in at Chevy Chase playground, he got the AU Law school and AU dorms through. Where has he been an obstruction to new development?

He's repeatedly told the NIMBYs in Foxhall and Palisades that he is against building the new elementary school at Hardy Park, and that the new high school at the old GDS campus needs more "community engagement" before we proceed with the mayor's plan. He also didn't lift a finger when residents in his ANC (3C) fought off the development at Super Fresh for years.

The old GDS lower school would be inappropriate for a high school. It doesn’t have a cafeteria. Doesn’t have an auditorium. Only has a small gym and small turf field so no sports. The land is constrained and on the side of a hill so you cannot add anything. It also only has capacity for 500 students.

I guess we’ll find out when it opens 15 months from now. That Goulet is telling people - in writing - he will be able to stop it if he takes office in January should tell you all you need to know about him.

Yep, by January it will be eight months away from opening, the money to open it will be in the current-year budget, not much a council member can do to stop it. But Goulet is good at telling people what they want to hear; as Homer Simpson said to Marge, "It takes two to lie. One to do the lying, and one to be lied to."

Goulet has also been gulling the gullible with the idea that the GDS site could be a K-8. Which shows a profound misunderstanding of what DCPS needs. It adds middle school seats, but not in-boundary for Deal, which needs them, but for Hardy, which doesn't. In doing so it increases the number of students with the right to attend Jackson-Reed but does nothing to increase the capacity of JR, even though that's what's desperately needed.

When was the last time they did a robust DC residency audit of Wilson? My nephew goes there and says a lot of the kids live in Maryland. Ferret them out and while they won’t solve the capacity issue, they will make a dent in it.

This is bonkers. Where in Maryland would they live such that they would go through all the trouble of going to Wilson over their local HS? Wilson is like an average MCPS HS.

More likely PG than Moco. A number are kids of DC government workers or good athletes from outside DC who are sub rosa allowed by coaches to play.

Who is going through the hassle to commute their kids from PG County all the way to Wilson HS? There is no way that this is happening. Just bonkers and absolutely not happening. Any quality sports recruits from PG County will have better opportunities at area private schools than coming to Wilson. What sense does that make?

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Anonymous wrote:Cheh has been a lame duck since February, when she announced her withdrawal from the race.

Do you think any of the Ward 3 candidates other than Goulet is more liberal than Cheh? Because they aren't. And Goulet is pretty close. He simply favors more money for Charters and a football stadium.

Honestly it looks down to Frumin (AU park support), Duncan (Palisades), and Goulet (Outside W3 Dark Money). Nobody else has more than 150 local W3 donors. Frumin is a bit more NIMBY than Duncan, but pretty similar overall. Goulet is all over the place, one day he says he is for reducing costs, then he come out in favor of spending money on a stadium for out-of-towners. But he is pro-charter school - which in W3 isn't even an issue (lowest charter use in the city, with no charters in boundary).

As for the makeup council post election?

Hard to say. I think Mendo will win, as will Naidu. W5 will stay progressive with either Faith/Parker. Does Bonds keep her seat? Not clear, she doesn't even really have any name recognition. Honestly, any pronouncements seem too early, unless you have seen polling results that the rest of us haven't.

I don't know where you get this. Frumin got the Lisner project through. He got the lights in at Chevy Chase playground, he got the AU Law school and AU dorms through. Where has he been an obstruction to new development?

He's repeatedly told the NIMBYs in Foxhall and Palisades that he is against building the new elementary school at Hardy Park, and that the new high school at the old GDS campus needs more "community engagement" before we proceed with the mayor's plan. He also didn't lift a finger when residents in his ANC (3C) fought off the development at Super Fresh for years.

The old GDS lower school would be inappropriate for a high school. It doesn’t have a cafeteria. Doesn’t have an auditorium. Only has a small gym and small turf field so no sports. The land is constrained and on the side of a hill so you cannot add anything. It also only has capacity for 500 students.

I guess we’ll find out when it opens 15 months from now. That Goulet is telling people - in writing - he will be able to stop it if he takes office in January should tell you all you need to know about him.

Yep, by January it will be eight months away from opening, the money to open it will be in the current-year budget, not much a council member can do to stop it. But Goulet is good at telling people what they want to hear; as Homer Simpson said to Marge, "It takes two to lie. One to do the lying, and one to be lied to."

Goulet has also been gulling the gullible with the idea that the GDS site could be a K-8. Which shows a profound misunderstanding of what DCPS needs. It adds middle school seats, but not in-boundary for Deal, which needs them, but for Hardy, which doesn't. In doing so it increases the number of students with the right to attend Jackson-Reed but does nothing to increase the capacity of JR, even though that's what's desperately needed.

When was the last time they did a robust DC residency audit of Wilson? My nephew goes there and says a lot of the kids live in Maryland. Ferret them out and while they won’t solve the capacity issue, they will make a dent in it.

This is bonkers. Where in Maryland would they live such that they would go through all the trouble of going to Wilson over their local HS? Wilson is like an average MCPS HS.

More likely PG than Moco. A number are kids of DC government workers or good athletes from outside DC who are sub rosa allowed by coaches to play.

Who is going through the hassle to commute their kids from PG County all the way to Wilson HS? There is no way that this is happening. Just bonkers and absolutely not happening. Any quality sports recruits from PG County will have better opportunities at area private schools than coming to Wilson. What sense does that make?

Talk to the Wilson students. They know the kids who live in Maryland but keep in on the down low.

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Anonymous wrote:Cheh has been a lame duck since February, when she announced her withdrawal from the race.

Do you think any of the Ward 3 candidates other than Goulet is more liberal than Cheh? Because they aren't. And Goulet is pretty close. He simply favors more money for Charters and a football stadium.

Honestly it looks down to Frumin (AU park support), Duncan (Palisades), and Goulet (Outside W3 Dark Money). Nobody else has more than 150 local W3 donors. Frumin is a bit more NIMBY than Duncan, but pretty similar overall. Goulet is all over the place, one day he says he is for reducing costs, then he come out in favor of spending money on a stadium for out-of-towners. But he is pro-charter school - which in W3 isn't even an issue (lowest charter use in the city, with no charters in boundary).

As for the makeup council post election?

Hard to say. I think Mendo will win, as will Naidu. W5 will stay progressive with either Faith/Parker. Does Bonds keep her seat? Not clear, she doesn't even really have any name recognition. Honestly, any pronouncements seem too early, unless you have seen polling results that the rest of us haven't.

I don't know where you get this. Frumin got the Lisner project through. He got the lights in at Chevy Chase playground, he got the AU Law school and AU dorms through. Where has he been an obstruction to new development?

He's repeatedly told the NIMBYs in Foxhall and Palisades that he is against building the new elementary school at Hardy Park, and that the new high school at the old GDS campus needs more "community engagement" before we proceed with the mayor's plan. He also didn't lift a finger when residents in his ANC (3C) fought off the development at Super Fresh for years.

The old GDS lower school would be inappropriate for a high school. It doesn’t have a cafeteria. Doesn’t have an auditorium. Only has a small gym and small turf field so no sports. The land is constrained and on the side of a hill so you cannot add anything. It also only has capacity for 500 students.

Aren't they spending 10s of millions to remedy those issues. Still a better use of money than the ellington boondongle.

DCPS needs to tell Ellington to move within a few years. This is the old Western HS site and should be used for a general high school again. Ellington should be more centrally located because it draws from across the city, especially NE and SE. Ideally Ellington should be near an arts venue. DC taxpayers paid through the nose to renovate the Western HS building and it should serve a larger population.

Ellington has the facilities it needs where it has them. It just needs better management

Ok, but upper NW doesn’t have the high school facilities it needs where it needs them.

The best site for a relocate Ellington woukd be the former Jefferson Junior High School site, now called “Jefferson academy, “in Southwest, which is transit accessible, centrally located, and — here’s the kicker — close to Arena stage.

Wait, why would we relocate Ellington? It’s a gorgeous school. It just needs to serve its students well.

It’s in the wing place. Northwest DC needs a second high school, and Western used to be it. Because DC treats Ellington fir some reason like a sacred cow, they’re trying to shoehorn in high school into a small site that used to be private school for little kids. Ellington draws from around DC, overwhelmingly from east of the Park, but it’s not even remotely close to Metro.

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Anonymous wrote:Cheh has been a lame duck since February, when she announced her withdrawal from the race.

Do you think any of the Ward 3 candidates other than Goulet is more liberal than Cheh? Because they aren't. And Goulet is pretty close. He simply favors more money for Charters and a football stadium.

Honestly it looks down to Frumin (AU park support), Duncan (Palisades), and Goulet (Outside W3 Dark Money). Nobody else has more than 150 local W3 donors. Frumin is a bit more NIMBY than Duncan, but pretty similar overall. Goulet is all over the place, one day he says he is for reducing costs, then he come out in favor of spending money on a stadium for out-of-towners. But he is pro-charter school - which in W3 isn't even an issue (lowest charter use in the city, with no charters in boundary).

As for the makeup council post election?

Hard to say. I think Mendo will win, as will Naidu. W5 will stay progressive with either Faith/Parker. Does Bonds keep her seat? Not clear, she doesn't even really have any name recognition. Honestly, any pronouncements seem too early, unless you have seen polling results that the rest of us haven't.

I don't know where you get this. Frumin got the Lisner project through. He got the lights in at Chevy Chase playground, he got the AU Law school and AU dorms through. Where has he been an obstruction to new development?

He's repeatedly told the NIMBYs in Foxhall and Palisades that he is against building the new elementary school at Hardy Park, and that the new high school at the old GDS campus needs more "community engagement" before we proceed with the mayor's plan. He also didn't lift a finger when residents in his ANC (3C) fought off the development at Super Fresh for years.

The old GDS lower school would be inappropriate for a high school. It doesn’t have a cafeteria. Doesn’t have an auditorium. Only has a small gym and small turf field so no sports. The land is constrained and on the side of a hill so you cannot add anything. It also only has capacity for 500 students.

Aren't they spending 10s of millions to remedy those issues. Still a better use of money than the ellington boondongle.

DCPS needs to tell Ellington to move within a few years. This is the old Western HS site and should be used for a general high school again. Ellington should be more centrally located because it draws from across the city, especially NE and SE. Ideally Ellington should be near an arts venue. DC taxpayers paid through the nose to renovate the Western HS building and it should serve a larger population.

Ellington has the facilities it needs where it has them. It just needs better management

Ok, but upper NW doesn’t have the high school facilities it needs where it needs them.

The best site for a relocate Ellington woukd be the former Jefferson Junior High School site, now called “Jefferson academy, “in Southwest, which is transit accessible, centrally located, and — here’s the kicker — close to Arena stage.

Wait, why would we relocate Ellington? It’s a gorgeous school. It just needs to serve its students well.

It’s in the wing place. Northwest DC needs a second high school, and Western used to be it. Because DC treats Ellington fir some reason like a sacred cow, they’re trying to shoehorn in high school into a small site that used to be private school for little kids. Ellington draws from around DC, overwhelmingly from east of the Park, but it’s not even remotely close to Metro.

We had a horse. It was a good horse. But it has bolted.

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Anonymous wrote:Here are the maps -
https://www.uptownurbanist.com/blog/council-approves-ward-3-anc-map

Those are not the officially approved maps. Where’s a link to the DC government source?

This is from Bob Ward's blog and from previous posts on this board it seems like he alone draws the maps.

It’s quite outrageous and sad to watch what is happening in Ukraine and realize that only four years ago Ward was working to bring a Russian puppet politician (ex-Pres. Viktor Yanukovych) back to power, initially as head of a Russian Donbas “autonomous republic.” (Now, that’s a split.) And Ward somehow was made Ward 3’s Mr. Redistricting?!?

What?! How morally corrupt. I’m so tired of his soliloquies on the local list serves. Comes across as a demagogue with a thin veneer of “we know best for the people”. Where’s the investigative journalism? Let’s unmask the demimonde running in these elections so people have a fair choice. And make room for clean candidates

Lol, are you are the same crazy that posts on every listserver about this? We were talking about this person with our neighbors and we all decided to vote for whoever this person hated the most. So we all became duncan voters, since why not?

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Anonymous wrote:Here are the maps -
https://www.uptownurbanist.com/blog/council-approves-ward-3-anc-map

Those are not the officially approved maps. Where’s a link to the DC government source?

This is from Bob Ward's blog and from previous posts on this board it seems like he alone draws the maps.

It’s quite outrageous and sad to watch what is happening in Ukraine and realize that only four years ago Ward was working to bring a Russian puppet politician (ex-Pres. Viktor Yanukovych) back to power, initially as head of a Russian Donbas “autonomous republic.” (Now, that’s a split.) And Ward somehow was made Ward 3’s Mr. Redistricting?!?

What?! How morally corrupt. I’m so tired of his soliloquies on the local list serves. Comes across as a demagogue with a thin veneer of “we know best for the people”. Where’s the investigative journalism? Let’s unmask the demimonde running in these elections so people have a fair choice. And make room for clean candidates

Lol, are you are the same crazy that posts on every listserver about this? We were talking about this person with our neighbors and we all decided to vote for whoever this person hated the most. So we all became duncan voters, since why not?

Retail politics at its finest.

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Anonymous wrote:Cheh has been a lame duck since February, when she announced her withdrawal from the race.

Do you think any of the Ward 3 candidates other than Goulet is more liberal than Cheh? Because they aren't. And Goulet is pretty close. He simply favors more money for Charters and a football stadium.

Honestly it looks down to Frumin (AU park support), Duncan (Palisades), and Goulet (Outside W3 Dark Money). Nobody else has more than 150 local W3 donors. Frumin is a bit more NIMBY than Duncan, but pretty similar overall. Goulet is all over the place, one day he says he is for reducing costs, then he come out in favor of spending money on a stadium for out-of-towners. But he is pro-charter school - which in W3 isn't even an issue (lowest charter use in the city, with no charters in boundary).

As for the makeup council post election?

Hard to say. I think Mendo will win, as will Naidu. W5 will stay progressive with either Faith/Parker. Does Bonds keep her seat? Not clear, she doesn't even really have any name recognition. Honestly, any pronouncements seem too early, unless you have seen polling results that the rest of us haven't.

I don't know where you get this. Frumin got the Lisner project through. He got the lights in at Chevy Chase playground, he got the AU Law school and AU dorms through. Where has he been an obstruction to new development?

He's repeatedly told the NIMBYs in Foxhall and Palisades that he is against building the new elementary school at Hardy Park, and that the new high school at the old GDS campus needs more "community engagement" before we proceed with the mayor's plan. He also didn't lift a finger when residents in his ANC (3C) fought off the development at Super Fresh for years.

The old GDS lower school would be inappropriate for a high school. It doesn’t have a cafeteria. Doesn’t have an auditorium. Only has a small gym and small turf field so no sports. The land is constrained and on the side of a hill so you cannot add anything. It also only has capacity for 500 students.

I guess we’ll find out when it opens 15 months from now. That Goulet is telling people - in writing - he will be able to stop it if he takes office in January should tell you all you need to know about him.

Yep, by January it will be eight months away from opening, the money to open it will be in the current-year budget, not much a council member can do to stop it. But Goulet is good at telling people what they want to hear; as Homer Simpson said to Marge, "It takes two to lie. One to do the lying, and one to be lied to."

Goulet has also been gulling the gullible with the idea that the GDS site could be a K-8. Which shows a profound misunderstanding of what DCPS needs. It adds middle school seats, but not in-boundary for Deal, which needs them, but for Hardy, which doesn't. In doing so it increases the number of students with the right to attend Jackson-Reed but does nothing to increase the capacity of JR, even though that's what's desperately needed.

When was the last time they did a robust DC residency audit of Wilson? My nephew goes there and says a lot of the kids live in Maryland. Ferret them out and while they won’t solve the capacity issue, they will make a dent in it.

This is bonkers. Where in Maryland would they live such that they would go through all the trouble of going to Wilson over their local HS? Wilson is like an average MCPS HS.

More likely PG than Moco. A number are kids of DC government workers or good athletes from outside DC who are sub rosa allowed by coaches to play.

Who is going through the hassle to commute their kids from PG County all the way to Wilson HS? There is no way that this is happening. Just bonkers and absolutely not happening. Any quality sports recruits from PG County will have better opportunities at area private schools than coming to Wilson. What sense does that make?

Talk to the Wilson students. They know the kids who live in Maryland but keep in on the down low.

Ah yes. Kids secretly living in PG County “on the down low” as opposed to all of the other problems and issues that kids face today. Thanks for the laugh.

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Anonymous wrote:Suck it, Mendo and Goulet.

This,

Shameful that Goulet would sign on to this garbage.

He really showed his colors in enthusiastically embracing an effort that would have diluted the voices of virtually everyone else in Ward 3 in order to placate a couple of hundred NIMBYs in Cleveland Park.

Explain how keeping a neighborhood together dilutes virtually everyone else in Ward 3?

ANC3D was absolutely massive - 11 freaking SMDs - on Mendelsohn's map. ANC3B was also ridiculously large.

ANCs - not SMDs - are afforded equal 'great weight' in the eyes of city agencies. The proposal really screwed over ANC3D and ANC3B.

Basically 3C were the only complainers and 3D and 3B were getting screwed by the Mendo map. Why do the single family home owners in 3C complain so much? They are rich and they really don't have any actual problems in their lives. Is this the only outlet for their spare time?

Sounds like you’re the one who is out of touch my friend.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Yes, but a person who lives directly across 34th Street from John Eaton and sends children there now has no say in what happens at John Eaton (or NCRC or Cleveland Park Club). Ditto for someone on the other side of 34th wrt Macomb Playground (or the Cathedral Schools or the Hearst pool). A neighborhood is more than its commercial boundaries.

Don’t worry. Cleveland Park Smart Growth and it’s partner Ward 3 Vision (Redistricting Tsar Ward is on the boards of both) will next turn their attention to making 34th Street a commercial, denser mixed-use corridor.

Good. I wish there was at least a corner store nearby. Not sure why people get a veto on what their neighbor does with their own property. If they want to build a few apartments, why shouldn't they? It is their land.

Have you tried walking a few blocks to Wisconsin or Connecticut? There already are tons of stores nearby.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Yes, but a person who lives directly across 34th Street from John Eaton and sends children there now has no say in what happens at John Eaton (or NCRC or Cleveland Park Club). Ditto for someone on the other side of 34th wrt Macomb Playground (or the Cathedral Schools or the Hearst pool). A neighborhood is more than its commercial boundaries.

Don’t worry. Cleveland Park Smart Growth and it’s partner Ward 3 Vision (Redistricting Tsar Ward is on the boards of both) will next turn their attention to making 34th Street a commercial, denser mixed-use corridor.

Good. I wish there was at least a corner store nearby. Not sure why people get a veto on what their neighbor does with their own property. If they want to build a few apartments, why shouldn't they? It is their land.

Have you tried walking a few blocks to Wisconsin or Connecticut? There already are tons of stores nearby.

It’s crazy how lazy this person is that they seem incapable of walking 2 blocks. It’s also clear that they don’t live nearby or else they would understand the public health nuisance issue first hand. There is already a massive rat problem and attracting more rats closer to people homes just so one person doesn’t have to walk 2 blocks is bonkers.

Also, DC is “over stored”. If your desired goal is to keep the Wisconsin corridor vibrant, adding retail on 34th would be anathema.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Yes, but a person who lives directly across 34th Street from John Eaton and sends children there now has no say in what happens at John Eaton (or NCRC or Cleveland Park Club). Ditto for someone on the other side of 34th wrt Macomb Playground (or the Cathedral Schools or the Hearst pool). A neighborhood is more than its commercial boundaries.

Don’t worry. Cleveland Park Smart Growth and it’s partner Ward 3 Vision (Redistricting Tsar Ward is on the boards of both) will next turn their attention to making 34th Street a commercial, denser mixed-use corridor.

Good. I wish there was at least a corner store nearby. Not sure why people get a veto on what their neighbor does with their own property. If they want to build a few apartments, why shouldn't they? It is their land.

Have you tried walking a few blocks to Wisconsin or Connecticut? There already are tons of stores nearby.

It’s crazy how lazy this person is that they seem incapable of walking 2 blocks. It’s also clear that they don’t live nearby or else they would understand the public health nuisance issue first hand. There is already a massive rat problem and attracting more rats closer to people homes just so one person doesn’t have to walk 2 blocks is bonkers.

Also, DC is “over stored”. If your desired goal is to keep the Wisconsin corridor vibrant, adding retail on 34th would be anathema.

Over-stored? DC has noticeably fewer retail establishments than any other city I've lived in. There are a few tightly defined strips that have retail, and that's it. I assume it's a legacy of the plan for the city/zoning.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Yes, but a person who lives directly across 34th Street from John Eaton and sends children there now has no say in what happens at John Eaton (or NCRC or Cleveland Park Club). Ditto for someone on the other side of 34th wrt Macomb Playground (or the Cathedral Schools or the Hearst pool). A neighborhood is more than its commercial boundaries.

Don’t worry. Cleveland Park Smart Growth and it’s partner Ward 3 Vision (Redistricting Tsar Ward is on the boards of both) will next turn their attention to making 34th Street a commercial, denser mixed-use corridor.

Good. I wish there was at least a corner store nearby. Not sure why people get a veto on what their neighbor does with their own property. If they want to build a few apartments, why shouldn't they? It is their land.

Have you tried walking a few blocks to Wisconsin or Connecticut? There already are tons of stores nearby.

It’s crazy how lazy this person is that they seem incapable of walking 2 blocks. It’s also clear that they don’t live nearby or else they would understand the public health nuisance issue first hand. There is already a massive rat problem and attracting more rats closer to people homes just so one person doesn’t have to walk 2 blocks is bonkers.

Also, DC is “over stored”. If your desired goal is to keep the Wisconsin corridor vibrant, adding retail on 34th would be anathema.

Over-stored? DC has noticeably fewer retail establishments than any other city I've lived in. There are a few tightly defined strips that have retail, and that's it. I assume it's a legacy of the plan for the city/zoning.

It's amazing how un-worldly the NIMBY types are. Some of them seem like they've never left their own block.

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I bet I’ve traveled a lot more than you, my unwashed friend. There are plenty of stores in DC; it’s just that there will be fewer and fewer as long as people can run in and out with armfuls of good unimpeded.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Yes, but a person who lives directly across 34th Street from John Eaton and sends children there now has no say in what happens at John Eaton (or NCRC or Cleveland Park Club). Ditto for someone on the other side of 34th wrt Macomb Playground (or the Cathedral Schools or the Hearst pool). A neighborhood is more than its commercial boundaries.

Don’t worry. Cleveland Park Smart Growth and it’s partner Ward 3 Vision (Redistricting Tsar Ward is on the boards of both) will next turn their attention to making 34th Street a commercial, denser mixed-use corridor.

Good. I wish there was at least a corner store nearby. Not sure why people get a veto on what their neighbor does with their own property. If they want to build a few apartments, why shouldn't they? It is their land.

Have you tried walking a few blocks to Wisconsin or Connecticut? There already are tons of stores nearby.

It’s crazy how lazy this person is that they seem incapable of walking 2 blocks. It’s also clear that they don’t live nearby or else they would understand the public health nuisance issue first hand. There is already a massive rat problem and attracting more rats closer to people homes just so one person doesn’t have to walk 2 blocks is bonkers.

Also, DC is “over stored”. If your desired goal is to keep the Wisconsin corridor vibrant, adding retail on 34th would be anathema.

Over-stored? DC has noticeably fewer retail establishments than any other city I've lived in. There are a few tightly defined strips that have retail, and that's it. I assume it's a legacy of the plan for the city/zoning.

Honestly ignorant. Go read the trade news, like Washington Business Journal.