Staff recommends District Boundary Scenario 1, with revisions
by Tim Bousquet
Readers will recall that the Utility and Review Board ordered council to reduce the number of council districts from 23 to 16. City staff then produced two different proposals for discussion, Scenario 1 and Scenario 2. I discussed these in some detail here. Staff then conducted a series of public meetings and two surveys for public input, then went off and drew up the present proposal.
My very quick review of the recommendation follows after the jump, but this is an immensely complicated proposal, and so I strongly urge readers to drill down into the maps and give their own opinions in the comments. I also want to reiterate that this is an extremely short timeline: staff is making the proposal public at 5pm on a Friday, with council voting Tuesday. There's no way the maps can be adequately processed and discussed before Monday, which is the latest people can contact their councillors for feedback.
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