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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The biggest problem with the Mendelson map is that one commission -- 3D -- has 11 members and 3E and 3F each have 6 members. Since the government agencies generally give each commission equal weight, the residents who live in the biggest commission effectively have half the voice of those living in the smallest commissions. [/quote]

The other big problem with it is that it leaves three commissions, B, C and D with HUGE areas with which to have oversight. It also cuts Woodley Park in really weird places that leave people who live either a block from Wisconsin Ave or CT Ave being in a commission that has purview over the other Avenue and no voice in the one they live close too - the same complaint that some Cleveland Park residents had of the Task Force map - so it was not ok to split Celveland Park, but it is ok to cut Woodley Park - that is hypocrisy at its finest.[/quote]

Wrong.  The Mendelson map unites all of Woodley Park and Cleveland Park under one ANC.  It fixes the problems created by the task force and creates compliant-sized SMDs while keeping cohesive neighborhoods together.  It is a vast improvement over any other redistricting map.[/quote]

Mendelson's map definitely screws over the rest of the ward to 'stop the split'.  Check out ANC 3B, now covering Glover Park, past Wisconsin Avenue, through Woodland Normanstone, and on to the border of Woodley Park.  That's ludicrous.  There could be a map that keeps Cleveland Park whole without messing up all the other neighborhoods, but this isn't it.

It's surprising to me the reporting on this has only covered Cleveland Park, none on the resulting downside for all the other ANCs in the Ward.  Whatever makes Cleveland Park politically powerful also makes it the star of every article.

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