Jay Clark asks: Is the DFL redistricting proposal the only and inevitable outcome of the demographic shifts? Or could the pain of redistricting have been distributed more evenly throughout the city?
Linda responds: The way I understand it, the courts in previous redistricting actions have said that city boundaries should be broken only in one place. In other words, city legislative districts should be wholly contained within the city whenever possible. Therefore, the DFL plan takes that into consideration and makes it bump out only to the west. St Paul's districts are the same way -- wholly contained in all but one district. District 58, which I represent, needs to pick up only 3000 people. District 61, which Linda Berglin represents, is right on the button in terms of the number of people it contains (about 75,000). The southwest district has lost a lot of people, and it is the one that goes out into the burbs, as it currently does. Currently, that district goes into Richfield; the proposal you looked at has it going into Edina. By the way, to get a full sense of redistricting plans, you should also look at the House Republican plan and the Governor's plan and see what they do to our districts. My guess is that our districts will be somewhere in the middle of all of them. linda higgins north mpls _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
