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Representatives

L'Enfant Plaza is covered by 4 Single Member Districts in 1 Advisory Neighborhood Commission. Each district elects one unpaid commissioner, your closest elected official.

Your commissioners

4 SMDs · 1 ANC
1
Advisory Neighborhood Commission
4
Single Member Districts
0
vacant seats
ANC 6D · 4 SMDsANC 6D site ↗
  • 6D02Gottlieb Simon
  • 6D03Gail Fast
  • 6D04Andrea Pawley
  • 6D05Chearie Phelps-el

Some of these districts may reach beyond the L'Enfant Plaza boundary. Names of elected officials are public record.

Find your district

Your Single Member District depends on your exact address. DC's ANC office has a lookup that returns your district and commissioner.

Look up your SMD by address anc.dc.gov ↗

Next ANC meetings

No meeting notice posted yet for the next 30 days. ANCs usually post a week or two ahead.

ANC Decoder: what's on the table

0 posts · 6 months

None of L'Enfant Plaza's ANCs publishes its documents in a form we can read automatically, so there's nothing to decode yet. ANC 6D posts on its own site; see the links beside this.

What the topics mean

Each post is tagged by topic once there are posts to read.

Recent meeting notices

DC Office of ANCs

DC's ANC office posts a notice for each public meeting, often with the recording. We started collecting them for L'Enfant Plaza's ANCs (ANC 6D) on Oct 31, 2026; they'll collect here.

What an ANC does

An Advisory Neighborhood Commission is the most local level of DC government. The city is split into ANCs, and each ANC into small Single Member Districts. Every district elects one commissioner. Commissioners are unpaid neighbors.

ANCs don't make final decisions. They vote on positions and send them to DC agencies, which by law must give those positions "great weight": the agency has to respond to the ANC's concerns in writing when it decides.

Where ANCs weigh in
  • ZoningVariances, special exceptions and new development before the zoning boards
  • Liquor licensesNew bars, restaurants and stores, and changes to their hours
  • Public spaceSidewalk cafes, driveways, curb cuts and anything built in the public right of way
  • PermitsBuilding, historic preservation and other city permits that affect the neighborhood
See the permits issued in L'Enfant Plaza this month Projects →