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What is an ANC?  As stated by dc.gov, “The ANCs’ main job is to be their neighborhood’s official voice in advising the District government on things that affect their neighborhoods. Although they are not required to follow the ANCs’ advice, District agencies are required to give the ANC’s recommendations ‘great weight.’ Moreover, District law says that agencies cannot take any action that will significantly affect a neighborhood unless they give the affected ANC 30 days’ advance notice. This includes zoning, streets, recreation, education, social services, sanitation, planning, safety, budget, and health services.  The ANCs also initiate recommendations for improving city services, conduct neighborhood improvement programs, and monitor resident complaints.”

The 37 ANCs in the city are grouped by Ward and then each is subdivided into a number of smaller areas called Single Member Districts (SMDs).   Each SMD, which consists of approximately 2,000 people, gets one SMD Commissioner to represent them on their ANC.  For example, ANC 6B has 11 SMDs, which means that ANC 6B has 11 Commissioners, each representing a chunk of the ANC, as seen in this map.  The biggest ANCs have 12 SMDs, while the smallest only have two.  So basically, your neighbor up the street is your voice in community meetings where decision about your street are made.  ANCs weigh in on whether or not streets should be shut down for marathons, whether or not a restaurant should have its liquor license renewed, whether or not your neighbor should be able to build a deck on their roof…and much more.  So making sure that your commissioner knows where you stand, and showing up to the monthly meetings to voice your opinion can have an impact.

To figure out which ANC and SMD you live in (and who your commissioner is) put your address into the DC Citizen Atlas.

Interested in attending the monthly ANC meetings?

  • ANC 6A meets the second Thursday of every month at Miner Elementary School, located at 601 15th Street NE
  • ANC 6B meets the second Tuesday of every month.  Check their website for the location
  • ANC 6C meets the second Wednesday of every month at Heritage Foundation,214 Massachusetts Avenue NE.
  • ANC 6D meets the second Monday of every month.  Check their website for the location

And to contact your commissioner, and stay up to date on the happenings around your back yard, here is how:

ANC 6A
6A01
Adam C. Healy

6A02
Drew Ronneberg

  • E-mail: ronneberg6a02 [at] gmail.com
  • Candidacy statement posted on THIH for the 2010 elections

6A03
David Holmes

  • E-mail: holmes6a3 [at] gmail.com

6A04
Nick Alberti

  • E-mail: alberti6a04 [at] yahoo.com

6A05
Sharee Lawler

6A06
Andrew J. Hysell

6A07
Gladys Ann Mack

  • E-mail: gmack01 [at] juno.com

6A08
Lia Veenendaal-Selck

 

ANC 6B
6B01
Dave Garrison

6B02
Ivan Frishberg

  • E-mail: Ivanfrishberg [at] gmail.com
  • Website
  • Twitter @DCivan
  • Candidacy statement posted on THIH for the 2010 elections
  • To subscribe to the list, email Ivan or sign up on the web site

6B03
Norman Metzger

6B04
Kirsten Oldenburg

6B05
Brian Pate

6B06
Jared Critchfield

  • E-mail: critchfieldaj [at] gmail.com
  • Website

6B07
Carol J Green

6B08
Neil Glick

6B09
Brian Flahaven

6B10
Francis M. Campbell

  • E-mail: fmcampbell6b10 [at] yahoo.com

6B11
– there are no eligible candidates for this seat since the SMD only contains the DC Jail.

ANC 6C
6C01
Keith Silver

  • E-mail: silverk1 [at] ymail.com

6C02
Mark A. Dixon

  • E-mail: mdixon402 [at] hotmail.com

6C03
–
6C04
Anne M. Phelps

6C05
Tony Richardson

6C06
Tom Hamilton

  • E-mail: tom_hamilton [at] verizon.net

6C07
Bill Crews

  • E-mail: ANC6C07 [at] aol.com

6C08
Karen Wirt
6C09
Kevin Wilsey

  • E-mail: kwilsey [at] thelansburgh.com

ANC 6D
6D01
Bob Craycraft

  • E-mail: bobc4dcsw [at] gmail.com
  • Facebook

6D02
Cara Lea Shockley

  • E-mail: cara.shockley [at] gmail.com

6D03
Ron McBee

  • E-mail: ron_mcbee [at] hotmail.com

6D04
Andy Litsky

  • E-mail: alitsky [at] aol.com

6D05
Roger Moffatt

  • E-mail: moffatt [at] verizon.net

6D06
Rhonda Hamilton

  • misrhonda [at] yahoo.com

6D07
David Garber

 

ANC 7D (since one SMD in this Ward lies west of the river, we’re including it as well)
7D01
Lisa White

 

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