Arizona IRC makes small change to legislative map

Sunday, 4 April 2004

The state's redistricting commission has redrawn Flagstaff 's new legislative district so that it no longer contains Kachina Village and Mountainaire.

Instead, those unincorporated cities south of the city are placed in a district dominated by Yavapai County . ...

But the commission's March 1 map had some 5,000 Lake Havasu City residents in one district and the rest of the city in another. ...

The Independent Redistricting Commission changed that Friday by putting all of Lake Havasu City in the district that also includes Bullhead City and Flagstaff . To offset the resulting population shift, the commission shifted some 5,000 people in Kachina Village and Mountainaire into a district dominated by Yavapai County .

The new map still divides Mohave County among three districts. However, commissioners said they were handcuffed by a judge's order requiring them to create at least seven districts winnable by either major party, an increase from four in the panel's 2002 map