Representatives
Chinatown is covered by 10 Single Member Districts in 3 Advisory Neighborhood Commissions. Each district elects one unpaid commissioner, your closest elected official.
Your commissioners
10 SMDs · 3 ANCs- 2C01Michael D. Shankle
- 2C04Jim L. Swart
- 2G06Rachelle P. Nigro
- 6E01Sam Alhadeff
- 6E02Crystal J. Watts
- 6E03Kevin M. Rogers
- 6E04Julia Fiedler
- 6E07Davina Carson
- 6E08Dale Prince
- 6E09Ritanch Hans
Some of these districts may reach beyond the Chinatown 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 meetings and events in your calendar: Apple or Outlook · Google · download
ANC Decoder: what's on the table
0 posts · 6 monthsNone of Chinatown's ANCs publishes its documents in a form we can read automatically, so there's nothing to decode yet. ANC 2C and ANC 2G and ANC 6E post on their own sites; 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 ANCsDC's ANC office posts a notice for each public meeting, often with the recording. We started collecting them for Chinatown's ANCs (ANC 2C, ANC 6E) 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.
- 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