ANC 6C Discusses Ward 6 Redistricting Map Drafts – ANC 6C Report by Sarah Payne

legal minimum of 1,900 residents per SMD which Eckenwiler said is “profoundly out of balance” and stated concerns about representation issues at the polls.

“Their entire map, I think, is inconsistent with District law,” Eckenwiler said. “And honestly, I think it’s [subject to] legal challenges because it gives overrepresentation to 6E voters.”

In the current draft map, nearly all of the seven proposed SMDs in ANC 6C are over 2,000 people; one is home

to over 2,100. Eckenwiler said that the Ward 6 Redistricting Task Force was “totally uninterested” in his proposed suggestion of moving about 600 people west of the Union Station tracks back into ANC 6B to ameliorate this issue. Eckenwiler said that despite providing feedback at the Task Force meeting about his concerns, he does not believe that these changCommissioner Eckenwiler map draft proposal #1, from February 28. Photo: M.Eckenwiler. es will be taken up. “My impression is that the task force has made up its mind and that nothing’s going to change regardless of what we or anybody else says to them,” Eckenwiler said. “But that’s just my impression.” Commissioner Joel Kelty (6C05) spoke about the proposed maps and expressed support for a map that would not shift the boundary between ANC 6A and ANC 6C as it will reduce the Commissioner Eckenwiler’s second map proposal that ANC 6C in uence on moves the 6A boundary in NoMa to 6th Street in north the H Street corridor. east NoMa. “It reduces our sphere of in uence on the H Street corridor and, in fact, takes us completely out of the retail subdistrict,” he said. “I’m not sure it’s in the best interest of the ANC,” Kelty said. Transportation and Public Space Committee (TPS) Chair Michael Upright spoke in support of Kelty’s comments on the H Street corridor. “I just wanted to weigh in support of Commissioner Kelty’s comments on the H Street corridor, and how important that is to 6C,” Upright said.

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“DDOT is looking at changing and making improvements along that corridor, and we have the opportunity to weigh in on that now since it goes through 6C, and if we lose that, then we don’t have that opportunity.”

Grant Applications

Victoria Lord, chair of the grants committee, provided a report of grants provided in 2021 and commissioners spoke about the current budget for 2022 grants. A total of 10 projects were reviewed by the committee last year with several ineligible or withdrawn. The committee is working with two groups on their grant applications. Story of our Schools, an organization that creates permanent, history-based exhibits to promote visible community stories, was awarded a grant of $3,000 in 2021.

Lord emphasized that while applications can take time, she said they are continuing to work with organizations to get ready for primetime and to nalize and clarify budgets with the committee.

Individuals interested in applying for grants are strongly encouraged to contact the committee before completing an application to see if the project is eligible.

Commissioner Kelty told the audience that $27,000 remains in the budget for grants.

Consent Calendar

The ANC commissioners adopted the unanimous committee recommendations and the motion to agree to all items and recommendations on the consent calendar was passed unanimously 6-0: • A letter to the NoMA Parks

Foundation supporting the name “Swampoodle Terrace” for a new park planned at

Third and L Streets NE. Commissioners said the name main-

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