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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What happened is not "gerrymandering"

The people who love closest to Wisconsin Avenue will now be part of an ANC that is focused on Wisconsin Avenue. That is the opposite of gerrymadering.

It never made sense that an ANC Commissioenr who lives across the street from the Cathedral had oversight of Connecticut Avenue.

The change fixes that to a degree. Now, the people who live closest to each corridor will have a say in what happens on those corridors. This is a good thing.[/quote]

Yes, but a person who lives directly across 34th Street from John Eaton and sends children there now has no say in what happens at John Eaton (or NCRC or Cleveland Park Club). Ditto for someone on the other side of 34th wrt Macomb Playground (or the Cathedral Schools or the Hearst pool). A neighborhood is more than its commercial boundaries. [/quote]

If your bad logic holds, then you have no say in anything regarding Hardy Middle School because you don't live in the ANC where Hardy is located, despite Eaton being in its feeder pattern.

3C just passed a resolution about Hardy, even though Hardy isn't in 3C.  Was there shock and horror?  No there was not.  You can have a say on Eaton even if you don't live in the ANC that covers it - just attend the public meeting and/or write the commissioners.  Or, get your own commissioner to do that.  [/quote]

So does this mean that residents in the new 3A will a continue to have a “great weight” say through their ANC commissioners in transportation issues or development on Connecticut Avenue?[/quote]

No. And that is the point. Why should people in Cathedral Heights have a say as to what happens on Connecticut Avenue?[/quote]

Cathedral Heights isn’t in the same neighborhood.  Cleveland Park is.  The task force sought to deny a voice to people over matters that affect their neighborhood.[/quote]

Maybe the people of Cleveland Park should not have overstepped when they tried to landmark the Giant that was outside of their historic district.[/quote]

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