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                                       A RESOLUTION

                                            24-712

                   IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

                                      December 6, 2022

To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to amend the Advisory

       Neighborhood Commission Boundaries Act of 2022 to adjust a portion of the boundary

       between single-member districts 6D01 and 6D07 in an offshore area that is occupied by

       recently constructed wharves.

        RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this

resolution may be cited as the Advisory Neighborhood Commission Boundaries Amendment

Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2022.

        Sec. 2. (a) The Council enacted Advisory Neighborhood Commission Boundaries Act of

2022, effective August 10, 2022 (D.C. Law 24-148; D.C. Official Code  1-207.38, note), to

establish new boundaries for every Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) and single-

member district (SMD).

        (b) The new ANC and SMD boundaries were used for the November 8, 2022 election and

will take effect for all other purposes on January 2, 2023.

        (c) Newly available aerial photographs show that a portion of the new boundary between

SMDs 6D01 and 6D07 runs through an offshore commercial building and cuts across residential

piers that are used as boat slips.

        (d) To avoid confusion about the SMD assignment of the commercial building and the

residential piers, it is necessary to change the boundary so that SMD 6D01 encompasses all of

the offshore area of the Washington Channel from the Tidal Basin to Southwest Waterfront Park.

        (e) This boundary change is not expected to alter the SMD assignment of any voters but

is expected to increase the 2020 Census population of SMD 6D01 to 2,122, resulting in a relative

population deviation of 6.1% (greater than 5%) from the approximate SMD population of 2,000

set by section 4(a) of the Advisory Neighborhood Commissions Act of 1975, effective October

10, 1975 (D.C. Law 1-21; D.C. Official Code  1-309.03(a)). This deviation results from the

limitations of Census geography and from the need to promote the public policies of respecting

the natural geography of the Washington Channel in the area of the Wharf and the cohesiveness

of the Wharfs liveaboard community. Therefore, the Council intends the deviation to accord

with section 3(e) of the Redistricting Procedure Act of 1981, effective March 16, 1982 (D.C.

Law 4-87; D.C. Official Code  1-1041.02(e)).

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       (f) The Council desires to change the SMD boundaries as described in this section before

the new boundaries take effect on January 2, 2023.

       Sec. 3. The Council of the District of Columbia determines that the circumstances

enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the

Advisory Neighborhood Commission Boundaries Amendment Emergency Amendment Act of

2022 be adopted after a single reading.

       Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.

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