The Ward 3 Advisory Neighborhood Commission Redistricting Task Force wrapped up its work last week. Its final report, submitted to the DC Council’s redistricting subcommittee on April 1st, proposes significant changes to ANC boundaries, inside and out.
Here is the proposed ANC 3F map:
And here’s the ANC map that went into effect in 2013:
ANC 3F has seven single member districts.
Among the impacts, again to 3F:
- Former 3F chair David Cristeal is to be redistricted into Cleveland Park’s ANC 3C.
- Current 3F chair Claudette David and fellow commissioner Stan Wall would live in the same single member district, or SMD, as would commissioners Alexandra Appah and James Tandaric.
- The ANC would go from seven SMDs to six.
- No one serving on today’s ANC lives in what would be the new ANC 3F02 and 3F05 single member districts.
ANC 3F gains some territory north of Nebraska Avenue and Military Road, loses some, with the new western boundary moved east to Reno Road and 37th Street, and southern boundaries moved north to Upton Street west of 34th and to Tilden Street.
The 116-page task force report has detailed explanations of its decision-making down to the SMD level. It explains that its drew the Ward 3 ANC boundaries based on population clusters and “centers of gravity,” which include schools and commercial areas. The population of each ANC and single member district had to be changed to accommodate population gains and losses since the 2010 Census. Each area of Ward 3 had a representative on the task force. The representative for Van Ness was former ANC Commissioner Bill Sittig.
The Council’s Subcommittee on Redistricting will hold two public hearings on this and the other task forces’ reports on April 7th and April 28th. The subcommittee plans to mark up the ANC redistricting bill by May 24th, and will need to adopt the bill no later than June 7th.
Candidates for ANC in the November general election will file and campaign based on these new boundaries. Will that be you? Let us know!
Charles Baker says
Looks to me like change for the sake of change.
Bill Sittig says
To the contrary. Change was necessitated by population changes in Ward 3 and in ANC 3F.
dc_chica says
The task force report does not provide a rationale for separating Van Ness East and Van Ness North from our neighboring apartment buildings, whose residents we share far more in common with then the single-family residences in the new proposed 3F03. I realize that population shifts necessitated the drawing of new boundaries, but it looks to me like the new 3F03 is a district of convenience that is being formed with the leftovers that didn’t fit into the other districts.
William Sittig says
Alas, it was not possible to keep all Van Ness buildings together in one SMD. East and North are in two different census tracts that if put together would have created an SMD with more people than allowed for an SMD (2000). The Task Force was under strict orders from the Council not to split up census tracts. But, on the bright side, the Van Ness Apt. complex will now have two commissioner-advocates on the ANC, rather than the one it has now.
Green Eyeshades says
It is interesting that you wrote “the Van Ness Apt. complex will now have two commissioner-advocates on the ANC, rather than the one it has now.”
If I lived in that complex, I would probably agree with you.
Does this outcome depend on that complex having a population increase since the last Census?
How much did the population of ANC3F increase or decrease since the last Census?
dc_chica says
Thanks for the reply – that makes sense