The ANC establishes standing committees, task forces and advisory groups as the need arises. Membership may include one or more ANC commissioners and interested members of the community. You may volunteer to work on a task force or advisory group OR request that ANC 3/4G consider establishing a task force or advisory group on any issue that affects a significant number of people in the community by contacting the ANC Office or making your proposal at an ANC meeting.

ANC 3/4G Currently has three standing committees. These are:

Racial and Social Equity (RASE) Standing Committee

  • The Racial and Social Equity Standing Committee was stood up by the Commission to carry forth the work of its Task Force on Racism. The Commission believed it was in the best interest of the Chevy Chase community and the District of Columbia to continue using its influence on our community’s public and policy debate to raise equity issues through the formation of a permanent Standing Committee of the Commission, where members of the committee are committed to advocating for the just treatment of all those disadvantaged by systemic inequality. In creating the standing committee, the Commission tasked the body to study and advise the Commission on how to most effectively:
    • Implement the initiatives developed and recommended by the Commission’s Task Force on Racism and adopted by the Commission;
    • Advocate for racial and social equity in the community and the city; endeavor to develop racial and social equity frameworks for analyzing issues and policies;
    • Promote community involvement and engagement; develop key stakeholder (community and City-wide) relationships; incorporate the most affected community members;
    • Champion education and training to increase awareness and understanding of equity frameworks; connect individual and collective experiences to systemic equity issues; and
    • Value data-driven analysis to aid decision-making.

Transportation Committee

The Mission Statement of the ANC 3/4G Transportation Committee is:
To identify and advocate for enhancements to all forms of transportation – guided by concerns for safety, equity, accessibility and the environment.
 

The Transportation Committee (TC) has two working groups:
• The Bus Transit Working Group (BTWG) is led by TC co-chair Michaela Platzer. The focus of this working group is to monitor current and future changes to bus service, the WMATA budget, and to work with the ANC to maintain and improve public bus transit within, to, and from ANC 3/4G.
• The Safety Working Group is led by Josh Rising and it seeks to identify ways in which, working with the ANC, the safe use of all modes of transportation in the neighborhood can be improved.

Zoning, Design, and Development (ZDD) Standing Committee

ANC 3/4G established the Zoning, Design and Development Standing Committee (ZDD) in a series of resolutions during 2022 to tap the community’s wisdom and expertise to help the Commission deal with the wide array of land use issues that are coming to it. Among the purposes listed are:

  • Helping the Commission participate with the city in devising the rules for a special zoning district or zone for the upper Connecticut Avenue corridor;
  • Advising the Commission on how most effectively to pursue redevelopment of the Community Center-Library campus to ensure robust community participation, inclusion of mixed-income housing and a structure that complements and improves the Connecticut Avenue commercial core;
  • Keeping abreast of design and development trends, policies and practices elsewhere that the Commission might learn from as it seeks to preserve the community’s many positive attributes and improve Chevy Chase;
  • Finding ways to help the Commission ensure that Chevy Chase’s growth is balanced between structure and infrastructure, large development along Connecticut Avenue and smaller structures in adjacent residential areas, change and continuity.