Advisory Neighborhood Commission

Advisory Neighborhood Commissions (ANCs) are bodies of local government in the District of Columbia, the capital city of the United States. The ANC system was created in 1974 through a referendum (73 percent voted "yes") in the District of Columbia Home Rule Act.^[1] The first elections for Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners were held in the fall of 1975, and commissions began operating in 1976.^[2] Congressman Don Fraser (D-Minn) and D.C. resident Milton Kotler helped to draft the ANC language in the Home Rule Act based on the success of Adams Morgan Organization (AMO) in Adams Morgan and on a 1970 report of the Minneapolis Citizen League, as well as on related neighborhood corporations in Pittsburgh; Brooklyn, New York; Chicago; and Columbus, Ohio.^[3][4][5]

Advisory Neighborhood Commission

Agency overview
Formed	1974
Jurisdiction	District of Columbia
Headquarters	John A. Wilson Building, Washington DC
Parent agency	D.C. Council
Website	https://anc.dc.gov/

ANCs consider a wide range of policies and programs affecting their neighborhoods, including traffic, parking, recreation, street improvements, liquor licenses, zoning, economic development, police protection, sanitation and trash collection, and the district's annual budget. Commissioners serve two-year terms and receive no salary, but commissions do receive funds for the general purpose of improving their area and hiring staff.^[6] This policy has come under scrutiny because of the misuse of funds by commissioners and their employees.^[7] Candidates can accept campaign donations up to $25 per person.^[8]

As of 2023, ANCs represent more than 100 neighborhoods.^[9]

Powers

The powers of the ANC system are enumerated by the DC Code § 1–207.38:

1. May advise the District government on matters of public policy including decisions regarding planning, streets, recreation, social services programs, health, safety, and sanitation in that neighborhood commission area;
2. May employ staff and expend, for public purposes within its neighborhood commission area, public funds and other funds donated to it; and
3. Shall have such other powers and duties as may be provided by act of the council.

The ANCs present their positions and recommendations on issues to various District government agencies, the Executive Branch, and the council. They also present testimony to independent agencies, boards, and commissions, usually under the rules of procedure specific to those entities. By law, the ANCs may present their positions to Federal agencies. One of the most common cases of ANC involvement is in the giving of liquor licenses, where the approval or disapproval of the commission, despite having no legal power, represents a veto to the district government.^[10]

Membership and qualifications

Each ANC Commissioner is nominated and elected by the registered voters who reside in the same Single Member District as the candidate. The ANC Commissioner is an official representing her or his neighborhood community (Single Member District) on the Advisory Neighborhood Commission.

In order to hold the office of Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner, an individual must be a registered voter (or must be able to register to vote within two years) in the District, as defined by DC Code Section 1-1001.02; have resided continuously in the Single Member District from which they are nominated for the 60-day period immediately preceding the day on which the nominating petition is filed; and hold no other public office. In order to enter the public ballot, they must receive 25 signatures from registered voters in their district.^[11]

Single Member Districts

 

The District of Columbia is divided into 8 wards, each of which is further divided into local ANCs.

The basic area of Advisory Neighborhood Commissions are Single Member Districts. There are 299 Single Member Districts,^[12] which in turn are subdivisions of 39 'Commission Districts',^[13] which are in turn subdivisions of Wards. Each Commissioner represents about 2,000 residents in their Single Member District (SMD) area.

Due to population growth and redistribution, these boundaries often change, causing shifts in power and election turnout.^[14]

Single Member Districts are named according to Ward, Subdivision, and then Single Member District. For instance, 3B05 is Ward 3, subdivision B, and SMD 05.

Ward 1

• 1A - northern Columbia Heights
• 1B - LeDroit Park, southern Columbia Heights, U Street, and northern Shaw
• 1C - Adams Morgan, Kalorama Heights, and Lanier Heights
• 1D - Mount Pleasant and northwest Columbia Heights
• 1E - Park View, Pleasant Plains, and Howard University

Ward 2

• 2A - Foggy Bottom, West End
• 2B - Dupont Circle
• 2C - Chinatown, Penn Quarter
• 2D - Kalorama, Sheridan
• 2E - Burleith, Georgetown, Hillandale
• 2F - Logan Circle

Ward 3

• 3B - Cathedral Heights, Glover Park
• 3C - Cathedral Heights, Cleveland Park, Massachusetts Heights, McLean Gardens, Woodley Park
• 3D - American University, Foxhall, Kent, The Palisades, Spring Valley, Wesley Heights
• 3E - American University Park, Friendship Heights, Tenleytown, Wakefield, Chevy Chase, Ft Gaines
• 3F - Forest Hills, North Cleveland Park, Tenleytown, Wakefield
• 3/4G - Chevy Chase

Ward 4

• 4A - Brightwood, Colonial Village, Crestwood, Shepherd Park, Sixteenth Street Heights
• 4B - Brightwood, Lamond-Riggs, Manor Park, Riggs Park, South Manor Park, Takoma, Fort Stevens Ridge
• 4C - Columbia Heights, Petworth, Sixteenth Street Heights
• 4D - Petworth, Brightwood Park

Ward 5

• 5A - North Michigan Park, Michigan Park, Fort Totten, Pleasant Hills, Fort Totten Park, parts of Catholic University and other Catholic Institutions, parts of Riggs Park
• 5B - Brookland, University Heights, parts of Woodridge, parts of Queens Chapel, parts of Michigan Park
• 5C - Langdon, Fort Lincoln, Brentwood, Arboretum, Gateway, Mt. Olivet Cemetery
• 5D - Carver Langston, Trinidad, Gallaudet University, Ivy City, Capital City Market
• 5E - Bloomingdale, Edgewood, Eckington, Truxton Circle, Glenwood/St. Mary's Cemeteries, McMillan Sand Filtration Site

Ward 6

• 6A - North Lincoln Park, Rosedale, H St. corridor (eastern half)
• 6B - Barney Circle, Capitol Hill (southern half), Eastern Market
• 6C - Near Northeast, NoMa, Union Station, H St. corridor (western half)
• 6D - Carrollsburg, Fort McNair, Navy Yard, Near Southwest/Southeast, Waterfront
• 6E - Shaw, Northwest One, and Mount Vernon Triangle

Ward 7

• 7B - Dupont Park, Fairfax Village, Greenway (part), Hillcrest, Naylor Gardens, Penn Branch, Randle Highlands, Twining
• 7C - Benning Heights, Burrville, Deanwood, Grant Park, Lincoln Heights
• 7D - Eastland Gardens, Kenilworth, Kingman Park, Mayfair, River Terrace
• 7E - Benning Ridge (part), Capitol View, Fort Davis, Marshall Heights
• 7F - Benning Ridge (part), Fort Dupont, Greenway (part), Hill East (part, including D.C. Jail)

Ward 8

• 8A - Anacostia, Fairlawn, Fort Stanton, Hillsdale
• 8B - Garfield Heights, Knox Hill, Shipley Terrace
• 8C - Barry Farm, Bolling Air Force Base, Congress Heights, St. Elizabeths Hospital
• 8D - Bellevue, Far Southwest
• 8E - Congress Heights, Valley Green, Washington Highlands

Members

As of February 2023^[update] there are 16 vacancies across the 345 single-member districts.^[15]

ANC 1A

1. Jaspal Bhatia
2. Dieter Lehmann Morales
3. Carlo Perri
4. Jeremy Sherman
5. Stephen Coleman Kenny
6. Anthony Thomas-Davis
7. Mukta Ghorpadey
8. vacant
9. James A. Turner
10. Billy Easley

ANC 1B

1. Larry Handerhan
2. Sean Holihan
3. Jamie S. Sycamore
4. Santiago Lakatos
5. Alan Kensek
6. Mark N. Johnson
7. Ashleigh Fields
8. Sabel Harris
9. Tucker Jones

ANC 1C

1. Vacant
2. Lee Dixon
3. Peter Wood
4. Joseph Van Wye
5. Margaret Stevens
6. Lynda Laughlin
7. Jake Faleschini
8. Barney R Shapiro
9. John Jones

ANC 1D

1. Kelly Willis
2. Hannah Grigg
3. Erika Nunez
4. Yasmin Romero
5. Omar Parbhoo
6. Angela Allison
7. Gary Decker

ANC 1E

1. Bradley Gallagher
2. Bobbie Lancaster
3. Michael Wray
4. Rashida Brown
5. Philip Newland
6. Josh Jacobson
7. Brian Footer

ANC 2A

1. Yannik Omictin
2. Jim Malec
3. Trupti "Trip" Patel
4. Ed Comer
5. Kimberly S. Courtney
6. Joel Causey
7. Dasia Bandy
8. Jordan Nassar
9. Evelyn Hudson

ANC 2B

1. Meg Roggensack
2. Jeffrey Rueckgauer
3. Vincent E. Slatt
4. China Dickerson
5. Z Stein
6. Matt Johnson
7. Patricia Bencivenga
8. Zachary Adams
9. Christopher Davis

ANC 2C

1. Michael D. Shankle
2. Rebecca Strauss
3. Thomas S. Lee
4. Kristin Roe

ANC 2D

1. Ashley Warren
2. Carole L. Feld

ANC 2E

1. Kishan Kumar Putta
2. Christopher "Topher" Mathews
3. Paul Maysak
4. Joseph Massaua
5. Mimsy Lindner
6. Gwendolyn Lohse
7. Elizabeth H. Miller
8. John Di Pierri

ANC 2F

1. David R. Rubenstein
2. Neil Rocklin
3. Joe Florio
4. Brian J. McCabe
5. Christopher Dyer
6. Matthew Fouracre
7. Brant J. Miller
8. Caroline Zagraniczny

ANC 2G

1. Anthony "Tony" Brown
2. Alexander M. "Alex" Padro
3. Alex Lopez
4. Steven Mccarty
5. Sheena Berry
6. Rachelle P. Nigro

ANC 3A

1. Thaddeus Bradley-Lewis
2. Judy Havemann
3. Hans B. Miller
4. Jeremy Del Moral
5. Ann Lane Mladinov

ANC 3B

1. Kevin Lavezzo
2. Jackie Blumenthal
3. Melissa Lane
4. J. Kevin Carroll
5. Gupi Howie
6. Ben Bergmann

ANC 3C

1. Hayden Gise
2. Adam J. Prinzo
3. Janell Marie Pagats
4. Roric McCorristin
5. Sauleh Ahmad Siddiqui
6. Tammy Gordon
7. Gawain Kripke
8. Rick Nash

ANC 3D

1. Chuck Elkins
2. Tricia Duncan
3. Quentin Colón Roosevelt
4. Jeremy Joseph
5. Bernie Horn
6. Marilyn Nowalk
7. J. P. Szymkowicz

ANC 3E

1. Matthew Cohen
2. Amy B Hall
3. Jonathan Bender
4. Tom Quinn
5. Jeffrey Denny
6. Alexandra Gianinno
7. Diego Carney
8. Rohin Ghosh

ANC 3F

1. Ryan Cudemus-Brunoli
2. Teri Huet
3. Mitchell Baer
4. Claudette David
5. James Tandaric
6. Courtney Carlson

ANC 3/4G

1. Lisa R. Gore
2. Bruce Sherman
3. James Nash
4. Michael Zeldin
5. Peter Lynch
6. Peter Gosselin
7. Zachary Ferguson

ANC 4A

1. Paula Y. Edwards
2. Joan Hoyte
3. Stephen A. "Steve" Whatley
4. Patience R. Singleton
5. Kim Patterson
6. Vacant
7. Zack Bolton

ANC 4B

1. T. Michelle Colson
2. Erin Palmer
3. Zurick T. Smith
4. Evan Yeats
5. Kevin Gilligan
6. Tiffani Nichole Johnson
7. Michael Cohen
8. Alison Brooks
9. Audrey Walker
10. Laroya A. Huff

ANC 4C

1. Casey Swegman
2. Antoine M. Kirby
3. Thomas P. DeFranco
4. Daniel Alexander
5. Brittany Kademian
6. Karen Livingston
7. Matthew Bradfield

ANC 4D

1. Joy A. Pinkney
2. Kate Judson
3. Carson C. Lucarelli
4. Chrysanthe "CC" Courniotes
5. Stephen Marencic Jr.
6. Aman George
7. J. Clark Weigel
8. Anthony Pirrotti

ANC 4E

1. Vanessa Rubio
2. Marlene Hunt Moss
3. Maria Barry
4. Carla Ferris
5. Ulysses E. Campbell
6. Pavan Ishwar Khoobchandani

ANC 5A

1. Duvalier J. Malone
2. Karlus Cozart
3. Emily Singer Lucio
4. Diego Rojas
5. Vacant
6. Kweku A. Toure
7. Vacant
8. Gordon Fletcher
9. Zachary Ammerman

ANC 5B

1. Edward Borrego
2. Nandini Sen
3. Vacant
4. Ra Amin
5. Colleen Costello
6. Sukhprita "Prita" Piekara
7. Gail A. Brevard

ANC 5C

1. Anthony Dale
2. Lauren Rogers
3. Tequia Hicks Delgado
4. Jacqueline Manning
5. Darlene Oliver
6. Harry "Tommy" Thomas Jr.
7. VJ Kapur

ANC 5D

1. Vacant
2. Sebrena L. Rhodes
3. Anna Roblin
4. Stephen Cobb
5. Salvador Sauceda-Guzman
6. Kathy Henderson
7. Juan McCullum
8. Reid May
9. Bernice Blacknell

ANC 5E

1. Joyce Robinson-Paul
2. Karla M. Lewis
3. Fred "Phil" Carver
4. Huma Imtiaz
5. Kevin Rapp
6. Kirby Vining

ANC 5F

1. Tony Hurst
2. Aru Sahni
3. Patricia Williams
4. Mark Galvan
5. Jennifer Anderson
6. Joe Bishop-Henchman
7. Sylvia M. Pinkney

ANC 6A

1. Keya Chatterjee
2. Mike Velasquez
3. Roberta Shapiro
4. Amber Gove
5. Laura L Gentile
6. Robb Dooling
7. Stephen Moilanen

ANC 6B

1. Frank Avery
2. Gerald "Jerry" Sroufe
3. David Sobelsohn
4. Francis "Frank" D'Andrea
5. Kasie Durkit
6. Chander Jayaraman
7. Vince Mareino
8. Edward Ryder
9. Matt LaFortune

ANC 6C

1. Christy Kwan
2. Leslie Merkle
3. Jay Adelstein
4. Mark Eckenwiler
5. Joel Kelty
6. Patricia Eguino
7. Tony T Goodman

ANC 6D

1. Bob Link
2. Ronald Collins
3. Gail Fast
4. Andrea M. Pawley
5. Ashton Rohmer
6. Bruce Levine
7. Fredrica "Rikki" Kramer
8. Rhonda Natalie Hamilton

ANC 6E

1. Chris Hart
2. George Viedma
3. Kevin M. Rogers
4. Denise E. Blackson
5. Ahmad Abu-Khalaf
6. Dylan Forest
7. Vacant
8. Vacant
9. Ritanch Hans

ANC 7B

1. John F. Adams
2. Jamaal Maurice Pearsall
3. Travis R. Swanson
4. D. L. Humphrey
5. Donna Robinson
6. Kelvin Earl Brown
7. Lisa D. T. Rice
8. Kelly Taylor
9. Michelle Hammond

ANC 7C

1. Brian A. Glover
2. Patricia Williams
3. Carlos Richardson
4. Anthony Lorenzo Green
5. Shirley A. Boykins
6. Patricia Stamper
7. Antawan Holmes
8. Kimberly Martin
9. Carrie N. Brown

ANC 7D

1. Siraaj Hasan
2. Vacant
3. Wendell Felder
4. Milton Hardy
5. Ebony Payne
6. Marc Friend
7. Brett Astmann
8. Brian Alcorn
9. Ashley Schapitl
10. Brianne Eby

ANC 7E

1. Katrina Norman
2. Krystal Bagley
3. Vacant
4. Natasha Dupee
5. Timothy Howard
6. Delia Houseal
7. Evette (S.L.) Lang

ANC 7F

1. Tyrell M. Holcomb
2. Ashley Renee Ruff
3. Kimory KSO Orendoff
4. Vacant
5. Brittany N. Hughes
6. Vacant
7. Shirley Thompson-Wright
8. Shameka Hayes

ANC 8A

1. Tonya Crawford
2. Barbara J. Clark
3. Holly Muhammad
4. Laneice Moore
5. Jamila White
6. Robin McKinney
7. Laverne Glenn

ANC 8B

1. Khadijah Watson
2. Paul Trantham
3. Vacant
4. Kimberly Little
5. Joseph Johnson
6. Alyce McFarland
7. Vacant

ANC 8C

1. Georgette Joy Johnson
2. Joyce M. Doyle
3. Dascha Cleckley
4. Erica "Go" Green
5. Cheryl Moore
6. Robbie Woodland
7. Salim Adofo
8. Amanda Beale

ANC 8D

1. Jacqueline Kinlow
2. Vacant
3. Sandra Harrell
4. Tara Brown
5. Travon Hawkins
6. Wendy Hamilton
7. Natasha Yates
8. Lakiah Williams

ANC 8E

1. Deborah Wells
2. Laqueda Tate
3. Kelly Mikel Williams
4. Kendall Simmons
5. Duane A. Moody
6. Dolores "Miracle" Bryant
7. Vacant
8. Rowena "Joyce" Scott
9. Rhonda K. Holmes

ANC 8F

1. Nic Wilson
2. Rick Murphree
3. Brian Strege
4. Edward Daniels
5. Clayton Rosenberg

See also

•  United States portal

• Neighborhoods in Washington, D.C.

References

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2. Garrison, David F. (2011). "District of Columbia's Elected Advisory Neighborhood Commissions: An Unlikely Experiment in Governance at the Grassroots". State & Local Government Review. 43 (2): 159–166. doi:10.1177/0160323X11416074. JSTOR 41303187. S2CID 155798683.
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4. Garrison, David F. (2011). "District of Columbia's Elected Advisory Neighborhood Commissions: An Unlikely Experiment in Governance at the Grassroots". State & Local Government Review. 43 (2): 159–166. doi:10.1177/0160323X11416074. JSTOR 41303187. S2CID 155798683.
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7. DeBonis, Mike (2012-04-27). "William Shelton gets 30 days for theft of ANC funds". Washington Post. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
8. "ANC Elections". DC Government. Retrieved 24 January 2013.
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10. DePillis, Lydia (12 May 2010). "With Liquor License, Trailblazing Big Bear Runs Into a Thicket". Washington City Paper. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
11. Ivey, Keith. . Archived from the original on 2012-10-12. Retrieved 2013-01-23.
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13. . DC Council. Washington, DC. Archived from the original on 2013-01-15.
14. Debonis, Mike (November 19, 2012). "D.C.'s closest ANC races are now less close". Washington Post. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
15. "List of Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners". DC Board of Elections. 2023-02-13. Retrieved 2023-02-22.

External links

• Advisory Neighborhood Commissions
• DC Board of Elections and Ethics
• ANC Finder
• ANC Election Resource