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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From the text of the amendment:

"This amendment to the Chairman’s ANS simply replaces the Chairman’s language amending the
Ward 3 section of the redistricting bill with the original compromise devised by the
Subcommittee, the Ward 3 Councilmember, and the Ward 3 Redistricting Task Force. It also
addresses one small issue that all groups, including the Chairman, the Task Force, and the
Subcommittee, view as appropriate: incorporating the small Woodland-Normanstone
neighborhood into one SMD. It supports the wishes of the larger Ward 3 community."

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It’s disingenuous for Mary Cheh to state that it supports the wishes of the larger Ward 3 community when public comments from the community (whether in the task force record, the Council record, public meetings convened by the Council) have been overwhelmingly against the task force map and the division of established neighborhoods in particular.  It is telling that Cheh  did not even bother to attend the first Council redistricting hearing and didn’t show  up for any of the several public meetings that Mendelson, Bonds, and Silverman convened in Cheh’s own ward.[/quote]

It will be interesting to see what becomes of the community backlash. [b]There is a strong possibility that this power grab ends up backfiring if the rest is that CP SF homeowners get more engaged.[/b] [/quote]

LOL. No there isn’t. The people who care about ANC boundaries are already engaged. Everyone else will go about their business and never even know who their ANC rep is.[/quote]

People are pretty aware of who Pagats, Siddiqui, Fink, Finley, etc are.  It is doubtful that they will win re-election to an ANC.[/quote]

If Fink and Pagats run again, their new districts make them unassailable.  [/quote]

That was clearly the gerrymandering intent of the Smart Growth task force group, because both commissioners otherwise have serious challenges.  Pagats seems lacking in the maturity and intellect departments and Fink is a lazy ANC commissioner.  He is best known, when he attends meetings at all, for appearing on Zoom meetings only to vote and then promptly leave.  The performance of both in the Wardman Marriott property saga was embarrassing to their constituents and damaged the ANC’s reputation.[/quote]

God forbid that people who live in buildings on corridors be able to vote for other people who live in buildings on corridors.

Have you ever stopped to think about how the ANCs have been tilted to single family property owners for the last 40 years and what impact that might have had on issues in the area?[/quote]

How exactly are ANCs tilted to SFH property owners?  As has been pointed out,[b] 7 out of 9 ANC 3C commissioners reside in multifamily buildings[/b] (including Beau Finley when he is not residing at his SFH in Maryland).  One commissioner lives in an auxiliary dwelling unit.  Only one commissioner actually lives in a SFH in DC.  Surely the Smart Growth spin machine can do better than this?  LOL.[/quote]

Not everyone stalks their ANC Commissioners or cares enough to have that much infromation.[/quote]

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