need to move GeoJSON data for districts to front-end--for now uncommenting this feature
bug fix to url specification on previous commit to remove address from url state to clarify controller
comment out address reverse geocoding--to remove later for clarity
hacking around the persons parameters and the address requirement in jquery on front-end
removing check for address--not sure this is necessary
district_id needs to be defined conditionally in each of these instances because in the mayor/manager case the @district var does not exist, so calling @district.id at the end for response raises an error in that case
removing an unecessary route i added while hacking on this overall