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That was clearly the gerrymandering intent of the Smart Growth task force group[/quote]

Fink has the densest district in 3C. There really isn't a way to carve it up such that his building isn't the population centerpiece.

Pagats could potentially be vulnerable to a Kennedy-Warren challenger, but that is unlikely to change the outcomes on 3C.

The Mendo map could have made a completely urbanist 3C, especially given the organizing prowess of Cleveland Park Smart Growth.

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This is what I find hilarious, the 'smart growth' people were trying to be civic minded. They knew that the old 3C was simply too big and that the new 2000+ people coming into the middle Wisconsin area would simply overwhelm the system - which they controlled. Now we can quibble at the exact dividing line, but honestly it is absurd to have people on CT ave dealing with stuff on WI ave. Sure the new map isn't perfect, but I'm not sure a perfect map is possible given the goal to make relatively equal sized ANCs. This seems pretty good.

Also I don't think many of the SMD people in the new 3C are at a big risk, they have more friends in their reasonably priced condo buildings than the annoying shouty single family owners in their multi-million dollar homes. Honestly, I'll vote to keep mine around; they are pretty much our only chance of keeping businesses around. They'll never be enough parking for car-oriented development (there simply isn't enough land unless you demolish all the single family homes), so I love the pivot to bikes and walking.[/quote]

So the task force and Mary Cheh drew a single member district thst is a block wide but 1.5 miles long.  So someone who lives, say, southeast of the VP’s residence will have the same commissioner as someone on Rodman Street, when their neighborhood issues and concerns are totally different.  That would be like having someone who lives west of AU having a say on what happens at Connecticut and Macomb.  Why is it “absurd” to have the Cleveland Park neighbirhood (which extends from Wisconsin across Connecticut Ave) in the same [b]ANC [/b], yet support a final map that has such a nonsensical [b]SMD[/b]?[/quote]

It turns out when you have low density housing and tons of institutional/park land, land gets very very big. Honestly, they could have allocated 75% of that land to any of the nearby SMDs, but census blocks are often weirdly defined. Now compare this to the Mendo map, that had a four 1.5 mile long SMDs (as opposed to one now)[/quote]

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