Local Redistricting Meeting

The city is adjusting it’s voting districts. It is a year long process and meetings have been held around the city. Tomorrow is our turn.  The meeting will be held January 19, at Lucille Murray Brown Middle School located at 6300 Jahnke Road. We are currently in Stage 1 of the redistricting process.

STAGE 1 – Choosing Richmond Redistricting Criteria
Richmond City Council will choose from among a number of criteria to decide which ones they want to use to base their redistricting changes to Richmond Voter Districts. In the first stage of the process they will choose the criteria. There will be a number of Public Information Meetings and Public Council meetings held with regard to this important part of the process.

Mandatory Redistricting Criteria that Council must use include the following:

Mandatory Redistricting Criteria
Population equality
Compactness
Contiguity
Avoidance of splits of census blocks

Council, at its discretion, may choose (or choose not to) add other Traditional Redistricting Criteria, which may include some, all, none and/or other types of examples of criteria listed below:

Other Traditional Redistricting Criteria
Avoidance of splits of voting precincts
Preservation of communities of interest
Preservation of shape of existing district
Protection of incumbents and avoidance of pairing of incumbents
Political fairness or competitiveness
Voter convenience and effective administration of elections