Letter
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On July 21, 2022, Chuck Livingston submitted a letter to the Citizens' Redistricting Advisory Commission providing four illustrative maps of potential council district boundaries created using Districtr.org software. Livingston argued that while current mapping tools can easily satisfy the three essential criteria of balance, contiguity, and compactness—and noted that the current map appears gerrymandered due to lack of compactness—the Commission should prioritize discussing and evaluating additional criteria including neighborhood preservation, school district boundaries, historical districts, and communities of interest. Livingston's letter urged the Commission to establish policies on whether these secondary criteria should be prioritized and, if so, how to achieve them in the redistricting process.
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