Comments on: CoCo unveils redistricting map drafts

By: John W

John W — Mon, 02 May 2011 22:13:48 +0000

Re #7

Totally agree. Concept 4 is not just the “most logical map.” It is the only logical map, out of the 4. I don’t know why people in East County would want their representative on the board to spend time dealing with issues on the other side of the mountain. As a resident of San Ramon, I sure don’t want to be an “add-on” to a district that is dominated by East County issues.

By: EC Citizen

EC Citizen — Mon, 02 May 2011 16:32:13 +0000

Concept 4 is the most logical map for East County. Hopefully it create a challenger for the district III seat that chosses citizens before personal gain.

By: RF

RF — Sun, 01 May 2011 06:38:37 +0000

“The Contra Costa Redistricting Task Force”???? Never heard of it.

By: Allen Payton

Allen Payton — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:26:44 +0000

The full concepts of the staff’s maps are on their http://www.ccredistricting.org website. Our proposed maps aren’t there, yet. Hopefully, they will be soon, as we were told all maps submitted for the process will be posted there. Here’s the direct link http://ca-contracostacounty.civicplus.com/index.aspx?NID=2848

By: Allen Payton

Allen Payton — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:19:45 +0000

The Contra Costa Redistricting Task Force, a group of citizens who have joined efforts to propose new maps for both the County Board of Supervisors, as well as the state’s Redistricting Commission process for the legislature and Congress, has officially submitted two proposed maps, known as Plans A and B into the process. They are based on some basic, common-sense principles, some of which were adopted by the Board in February, in their “Guiding Principles/Criteria” – which includes compact and contiguous districts, maintain communities of interest such as cities, school districts, special districts and unincorporated areas, using geographic features, and keeping population of each district within 5% of each other. Our maps will be included in the process. We also added common issues, such as transportation, growth and economic development. We pursued a 1% deviation in population from district to district.
We gave copies of our initial maps to the county staff at a meeting we had with them, in March. Their Concept 4 is very much like our Plan B, which we made a few changes to before final submission, yesterday. All of their plans, as well as our Plan B split more than one city. However, our Plan A only splits Concord, the county’s largest city.
All the plans should be in the Board’s agenda on the county website by end of the work day, today, according to the Clerk of the Board’s office.

By: Tom Benigno

Tom Benigno — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:31:31 +0000

The missing word is RACE.

By: Tom Benigno

Tom Benigno — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:30:25 +0000

This will be a very interesting to say the least. Who is on third.

By: RF

RF — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 06:08:30 +0000

Concept 4 is what the Contra Costa time while say is the only clear choice. The editorial board there knows best.