Anonymous wrote:I live in Ward 6 and think it would be great if the southern part of the Ward (Navy Yard/Wharf) becomes part of Ward 8 - it would help with the extreme segregation of Ward 8 and help unite both sides of the Anacostia River. Same with the eastern side of Ward 6 and Ward 7. The River creates a physical and mental divide. Build a bridge!

If you build a bridge than you further promote gentrification. Experience on these matters shows that it’s better and easier to just complain that not enough is done (food deserts, crime, development pricing people out and displacing people), and whine about it, then to complain when something is done (police, failed organic grocery stores in ward 8, police actually policing, development) so you can play both sides. You can have development but you have to grandfather in poverty, so as not to change the uniqueness of the neighborhood and blah blah. You can just let people have to try and work to afford a neighborhood with increasing prices. Only certain people should pay full market rate, others should be subsidized in perpetuity like preserving the right type of fossil in amber.

I live in Ward 6 and think it would be great if the southern part of the Ward (Navy Yard/Wharf) becomes part of Ward 8 - it would help with the extreme segregation of Ward 8 and help unite both sides of the Anacostia River. Same with the eastern side of Ward 6 and Ward 7. The River creates a physical and mental divide. Build a bridge!

Anonymous wrote:Could we add another ward?

DC probably should but it will never happen because that means it would dilute the power of the current Council members and we can't have that now, can we?

Could we add another ward?

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Big chunks of Ward 6 will go to Wards 7 & 8

Never underestimate the stupidity of the electorate and deny that enough people could get confused and vote for Trayon vs Robert.

Also, there are something like 550,000 voters in DC and only 200,000 voted in the last mayoral election and that was only probably because it was also a vitally important mid-term election nationally. Apathy and disengagement wins plenty of awful people the office. (See: Trump, Bush, etc.)

Relevant to this thread:

My best guess is that parts of Hill East/Barney Circle/Kingman Park will be absorbed into Ward 7, and parts of Ward 7 moved into Ward 8. Part of that area is already in Ward 7. Ward 2 will also finally take over the weird part of Ward 6 that is in Shaw.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Won't it be the Shaw area or Hill East/ Barney Circle that would be redistricted out of Ward 6? I just hope I can keep my Zone 6 parking for a while!

One aspect that is taking place is decoupling parking zones from ward boundaries, and perhaps making the zones MUCH smaller. The whole point is to be able to park near your house, not get free parking half a city away. The idea that a resident of far west end Georgetown can park in Shaw all day is crazy. That will likely be ending.

I hate all this “fairness” bullsht. Just leave the fking zones the way they are.

Signed,


A ward6 resident who likes the huge zone.

+1000. We're tearing ourselves up with the endless theoretical jealousies that don't even make sense in the real world anymore.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Won't it be the Shaw area or Hill East/ Barney Circle that would be redistricted out of Ward 6? I just hope I can keep my Zone 6 parking for a while!

One aspect that is taking place is decoupling parking zones from ward boundaries, and perhaps making the zones MUCH smaller. The whole point is to be able to park near your house, not get free parking half a city away. The idea that a resident of far west end Georgetown can park in Shaw all day is crazy. That will likely be ending.

I hate all this “fairness” bullsht. Just leave the fking zones the way they are.

Signed,


A ward6 resident who likes the huge zone.

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A. Trayon White is racist and an anti-Semite and an anti-vaxxer.
B. Of course Trayon White could be elected our next Mayor.
C. Mayor for Life Barry would be re-elected if he appeared tomorrow.

Congratulations on coming out of your coma. Many things have changed during the years that you were unconscious. Barry would have no chance at a city-wide office, just as Trayon White has no chance. Also, just wait until you hear the identity of our previous President.

Jeff, of course he would win. He received 102k votes in the 90's. If he could run today he would win in a landslide. There might be a large group of shocked DC voters, but not as large as the group partying at his re election. Trayon White does not have Mayor for Life's charisma, but I certainly would not dismiss him especially with as dangerous as he is.

I don't think about the former President anymore. I am not sure why he has so much real estate in your head.

Someone who is still worried about the ghost of Marion Barry is not really in a position to joke about cranial real estate usage. As I mentioned, a lot has happened since the 90's. If you have been paying attention, you would understand that Barry's last term as mayor was a disaster that led to the takeover by the financial control board. The coalition that elected Barry has been shattered and no longer exists. Significant demographic changes have introduced 10s of thousands of new voters whose only knowledge of Barry is a blurry video of him being arrested for smoking crack. For better or worse, DC has changed significantly since the Barry era.

As for Trayon White, his chances are even less existent. Where do you think he can get significant support outside of Ward 8 and possibly Ward 7? His only chance would be a Democratic primary in which a ton of weak candidates divided the rest of the vote. But, even in that unlikely scenario, there are any number of people who could jump in as an independent and defeat White in the general election.

Anonymous wrote:Won't it be the Shaw area or Hill East/ Barney Circle that would be redistricted out of Ward 6? I just hope I can keep my Zone 6 parking for a while!

One aspect that is taking place is decoupling parking zones from ward boundaries, and perhaps making the zones MUCH smaller. The whole point is to be able to park near your house, not get free parking half a city away. The idea that a resident of far west end Georgetown can park in Shaw all day is crazy. That will likely be ending.

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A. Trayon White is racist and an anti-Semite and an anti-vaxxer.
B. Of course Trayon White could be elected our next Mayor.
C. Mayor for Life Barry would be re-elected if he appeared tomorrow.

Congratulations on coming out of your coma. Many things have changed during the years that you were unconscious. Barry would have no chance at a city-wide office, just as Trayon White has no chance. Also, just wait until you hear the identity of our previous President.

Jeff, of course he would win. He received 102k votes in the 90's. If he could run today he would win in a landslide. There might be a large group of shocked DC voters, but not as large as the group partying at his re election. Trayon White does not have Mayor for Life's charisma, but I certainly would not dismiss him especially with as dangerous as he is.

I don't think about the former President anymore. I am not sure why he has so much real estate in your head.

Won't it be the Shaw area or Hill East/ Barney Circle that would be redistricted out of Ward 6? I just hope I can keep my Zone 6 parking for a while!