Advisory Neighborhood Commission
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Oct 27, 2026
Michael SchafferHOST
Where can people find out who's running for their ANC commissioner?
Tristan EspinozaPANELIST
Yeah, so as you mentioned, advisory neighborhood commissions, or ANCs, are probably some of the most hyperlocal elected positions in the city, and there's so many of them.
Tristan EspinozaPANELIST
And we're talking about these people who weigh in on things like parking, liquor license, zoning, and neighborhood developments, in which each commissioner represents, you know, a small geographic area with around 2,000 residents.
Tristan EspinozaPANELIST
And figuring out who represents you is really, really straightforward.
Dana BashGUEST
with effectively an activist civic organization saying, yeah, we like this guy.
Michael ZeldinHOST
Which is why I ran to be an ANC commissioner in the District of Columbia twice.
Michael ZeldinHOST
Sadly, I didn't change the world, save for maybe a speed hump here or there.
Michael ZeldinHOST
That matters.
Michael SchafferHOST
But a case working its way through DC Superior Court is challenging that assumption.
Michael SchafferHOST
My guest today, Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner and CityCast contributor Ashley Schapitl, recently wrote about this in her Capital Common Sense Substack.
Michael SchafferHOST
Could a judge's ruling reshape the city's landlord-tenant law? Ashley is here to explain.
Michael SchafferHOST
Today is Thursday, October 22nd.
Chris HughesHOST
There's a couple more contests that could use RCV that are only on the general election ballot in DC.
Chris HughesHOST
There's the State Board of Education, and then there's these hyper local contests called ANCs, Advisory Neighborhood Commissions, uh, and a few of those have enough candidates for RCV.
Chris HughesHOST
And then we have a slightly different form of RCV for our at-large elections this year.
Chris HughesHOST
We elect two seats at large every two years, and we're using bottoms up RCV, which is a type of multi-winner RCV.
Melissa LittlepageHOST
It's such a beautiful portrait of our community.
Melissa LittlepageHOST
It's everything from first graders to ANC commissioners, people who've lived in Ward 5 for 70 years to people who've lived in Ward 5 for two months.
Melissa LittlepageHOST
And what a beautiful picture of the community that we are, and so enjoy listening to these clips of Ward 5 neighbors.
Melissa LittlepageHOST
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Juan McCollumSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Hi, everybody.
Juan McCollumSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This is Juan McCollum.
Juan McCollumSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I am the 5D07 ANC Commissioner that's in Carver-Langston community.
Juan McCollumSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Um, it's very good to be out today for the Ward 5 Day.
Dyrell MuhammadGUEST
You got to watch who you are, not only just watch who you're around, But yeah, the attorney general says she's going to try.
Dyrell MuhammadGUEST
But there's an ANC in his ward, Mr. Tom Donahue, that did a press release Monday and said that he should be retried.
Dyrell MuhammadGUEST
Here's an ANC in Washington, D.C., which stands for Advisory Neighborhood Commission.
Dyrell MuhammadGUEST
And this is why I talked about our people, brother.
Dyrell MuhammadGUEST
You got a Caucasian and a predominantly black He called himself representing our
Dyrell MuhammadGUEST
Well, let
Carl NelsonHOST
me stop you for a second because we're racing the clock here.
Carl NelsonHOST
And I want just a little bit on this because I saw the interview with the ANC commissioner said, and he was checked by a brother who was watching the interview.
Emma UberPANELIST
There has been backlash against people who have come out against him.
Emma UberPANELIST
I don't know if you guys saw that video of the ANC commissioner who got a drink or something thrown at him in Ward 8 as he was giving an interview calling for Trayvon White's expulsion from the council.
Emma UberPANELIST
There is... a group of people that showed up in court every day and have been extremely vocal online that feel very strongly that this is the best person to represent Ward 8.
Emma UberPANELIST
And in fact, I think some of them believe that because of what he's been through, because they believe he's been targeted by the FBI, you know, in the legacy of Mary and Barry, he's even more equipped to speak to The struggles of war.
17 MINS LATER
Michael SchafferHOST
The fix in some of these cases is much worse than the problem.
Michael SchafferHOST
But with this one in particular, and this is the thing I wrote about early in my career, that the feds own, besides the mall and the sort of glamorous parks that Trump cares about, the feds have, I think, 356 parcels of land in D.C. And most of those are like the triangle where your street and another street in the back alley intersect, and there's some grass on it.
Michael SchafferHOST
And for years, anyone who's covered local Washington has had neighbors, local neighborhood activists, ANC commissioners, that kind of people, who's hollering, like, someone's got to mow this lawn.
Michael SchafferHOST
No one ever mows it.