Remap Goes to Council
The Los Angeles Redistricting Commission on Wednesday voted to recommend to the City Council a map outlining new boundaries for 15 council districts.
As the council begins its hearings on the proposed redistricting plan today at City Hall, winners and losers in the commission process were preparing for the next battle.
The proposal increases from four to five those districts in which Latino voters are a plurality. It also increases the number of districts wholly in the San Fernando Valley from four to five.
The recommendation also addressed concerns by Councilwoman Wendy Greuel that her 2nd District, as originally proposed, would have become a long, narrow, odd-shaped district that included the disparate communities of Sunland-Tujunga in the East Valley and Encino in the West Valley.
After lobbying from Greuel, who won election March 5, the commission Tuesday recommended a revised plan for a more compact 2nd District that swaps Studio City for Encino and keeps the district east of the San Diego Freeway.
“It keeps communities of interest together,” Greuel said.
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