Latino Organization Submits Plan for County Redistricting : Supervisors: MALDEF, which helped create the new 1st District, would adjust boundaries to reflect 1990 Census. Its proposal is one of six filed.

A Latino organization whose suit led to the redrawing of Los Angeles County supervisorial districts last year was among the civil rights groups, politicians and individuals to submit redistricting plans Wednesday to reflect the 1990 Census.

No dramatic alterations were proposed in the map submitted by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. But about 200,000 residents would be assigned a new supervisor to equalize the population among districts.

Under the MALDEF proposal, Supervisor Gloria Molina’s 1st District would pick up Norwalk and Paramount from Supervisor Deane Dana’s 4th District and Azusa from Supervisor Mike Antonovich’s 5th District.

Under the MALDEF plan, Pomona would receive its third new supervisor in a year--Dana. At the beginning of last year, the city was represented by 1st District Supervisor Pete Schabarum, who retired. Pomona then became part of Antonovich’s district under court-ordered remapping.

Supervisor Ed Edelman’s 3rd District and Kenneth Hahn’s 2nd District would remain largely unchanged.

“This is the opening shot,” said Richard Fajardo, a MALDEF attorney. The proposals submitted Wednesday are expected to serve as the starting point for weeks of political horse-trading among the supervisors.

Although 98 individuals and organizations requested do-it-yourself redistricting kits from the county, only six submitted maps by Wednesday’s deadline.

Many of those who bought the $27.50 kits said they wanted the demographic and political information for purposes other than county redistricting.

“We’re using it for our own purposes,” said Doug Yoakam, a redistricting consultant to the Assembly Republican Caucus.

Robert Burke, a computer buff in the Antelope Valley, said he bought a kit “just for my enjoyment. . . . It ought to be fun.”

Deputy Los Angeles City Atty. Jessica Heinz said she bought a kit “because its got some data we’ll use when we do redistricting in the city.”

Dowell Myers, USC professor of urban planning, said he bought the kit as an academic exercise. “I was curious to see how easy it would be,” he said. “It wasn’t easy.”

The MALDEF map is important because the civil rights group was a plaintiff in the redistricting lawsuit that led to the election this year of Molina, the first Latino supervisor this century. The U.S. Justice Department, another plaintiff in the voting rights case, must sign off on any redistricting plan approved by the supervisors.

The computer-drawn MALDEF plan was prepared by three college students working under the supervision of Leo Estrada, a professor of urban planning at UCLA, said Fajardo.

Others submitting maps Wednesday were Dana, Hahn, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, a community group called L.A. Crusaders and Sylmar businessman Sam Cordova.

Supervisors have until Oct. 1 to draw their own map or revise any of those submitted Wednesday. The county is paying up to $350 an hour for six experts to assist in the redistricting.

New maps may have to be submitted if the census is revised to respond to complaints that the current figures undercount minority populations.

Fajardo has said that he does not expect any radical changes in supervisorial district lines because court rulings prohibit the fragmentation of heavy concentrations of minority voters.