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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If everyone has equal standing regardless, why bother to change the boundaries at all? [/quote]

You may need to write this down somewhere for later reference - the boundaries needed to change because population changed.  [/quote]

Actually the population changed rather little in ANC 3C, particularly in Woodley and Cleveland Park.  Population shifts based on the 2020 census easily could have been adjusted before without radical gerrymandering.  The task force cited anticipated future population growth at City Ridge and Upton/ Van Ness, but future population growth is not a basis in the stature for redistricting.  Only the last census is.  Yet another example of how the runaway task force exceeded their authority to substitute their own policy preferences for the statute (and ignored other requirements like keeping cohesive neighborhoods together under a single ANC).[/quote]

What gerrymander? What group is being helped/hurt here?[/quote]

One of the leading council candidates has said that the task force’s intent was clear in ANC 3C to “disenfranchise” people who live on blocks that are predominantly SFH.  The other leading candidate also came out against the task force map, as did another candidate.[/quote]

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