Residents may be heard at an ANC meeting in one of two ways. First, you may always speak about an issue of importance to you during the Community Concerns portion of the agenda. Second, for issues that require advance review by the ANC or involve official D.C. agencies (such as the Board of Zoning Adjustments or the Department of Transportation), get in touch with the commissioner for your SMD as far in advance of the meeting as possible..

ANCs are routinely asked by the City's Public Space Committee to submit comments on any Public Space Application. The Committee is statutorily required to give the recommendations/comments of an ANC "great weight" in making its decision. To facilitate the ANC's review and to enhance the likelihood of a favorable recommendation from the ANC, you should contact your Commissioner as soon as possible. It is helpful if you contact your immediate neighbors to discuss your plans and seek written approval. These documents should then be presented to the ANC. You will also be expected to respond to and remedy any problems that any City agency raises about your application. The ANC normally includes any Public Space Applications on the agenda of one of its regularly scheduled meetings and then sends its comments or recommendations to the D.C. Public Space Committee. Depending on the complexity and/or perceived controversy of an application, you may or may not be asked to make a presentation about the project to the ANC at its meeting.

Affected ANCs are automatically given Party status before the BZA as well as before the Zoning Commission. These Zoning institutions are statutorily required to give the recommendations/comments of an ANC "great weight" in making their decisions. To facilitate the ANC's review and to enhance the likelihood of a favorable recommendation from the ANC, you should contact your Commissioner as soon as possible. It is helpful if you contact your immediate neighbors to discuss your plans and seek written approval. These documents should be presented to the ANC. The ANC normally addresses BZA and Zoning Commission matters in one of its regularly scheduled meetings and submits its comments and recommendations to the Office of Zoning. Depending on the complexity and/or perceived controversy of the application, you may or may not be asked to make a presentation about the matter to the ANC at its meeting.

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