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By Calvin Welch, HANC Board
This November’s election was held in the new Supervisor districts created earlier this year which divided the Haight-Ashbury into three districts: 1 precinct in District 1, 7 precincts in District 5 and 5 precincts in District 8. The three sub areas of the neighborhood used in previous "How the Haight Voted" presentations--the North Panhandle (from Fulton to Fell, Stanyan to Baker ), the Flatlands (Oak to Frederick, Stanyan to Baker) and the Hills (Frederick to 17th, Stanyan to Upper Ashbury)--will continue to be used, but the precincts have been reconfigured. For example in the Hill precincts, three previous precincts have not only been re-numbered but also combined into a single new precinct (9802) that includes streets on the west side of Stanyan and are now part of District 8. Our neighborhood now has 1 precinct in the North Panhandle in District 1 (9147), 5, all except 9803 in the Hills in D8 (9802-06) and 7 precincts (9501-06) remaining in the North Panhandle and Flatland precincts ( where 9803 now sits). Thus under the new precinct lines there are four precincts in the North Panhandle, five in the Flatlands and four in the Hill precincts.