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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP: What is this really about? What are the issues that some in CP feel like they wouldn't be able to get their way on if they were put in one ANC versus another?[/quote]
It started with Cheh working through a process many considered rigged where the outcome was designed to limit representation of SF homeowners.

The people who politically benefit and their ideological comrades are now crying foul that those who would have had their representation dimished have been successfully able to restore some of it through a compromise.

This is how politics works and it people don’t understand it and it makes them upset. [/quote]

But what are the actual issues this affects?[/quote]
It’s about representation on ANCs. The “issues” are those of relevance to ANCs. 
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There seems to be a studious effort to avoid talking about the issues.

In general, ANC's don't have a lot of power. However, the one capability they do have is to obstruct things. If you want your neighborhood frozen in time, to reflect the say it was in some past "golden era," the ANC can help. However, the less hyper-local a commission is, the less likely it is to act that way. So the NIMBY's in Foxhall Village don't like being part of a larger ANC that isn't so parochial, and the NIMBY's in Cleveland Park want to all be in the same commission so they can dominate it. [/quote]

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