Supervisor district lines in the public eye

Adam Pollack
San Diego Examiner
February 21, 2011

The County Board of Supervisors is working on getting a green light from citizens on a new districting plan set to go into effect in early September 2011 after the 2010 U. S. census data is published and reviewed. A committee appointed by the Board to handle redistricting, the Redistricting Advisory Committee, will hold its first meeting on Wednesday, February 23, at 9 am in Room 310 of the County Administration Building, 1600 Pacific Highway.

After staff present the redistricting process plan and the committee members discuss it, citizens who filed a request to speak will have an opportunity to comment.

The committee's redistricting enterprise will include a series of public meetings. These meetings will be scheduled by the committee at its Wednesday meeting.

Citizens can review the proposed districts for increases or decreases in the size of the districts that currently contain near 550,000 constituents. Lines can be can taken under close inspection before they are drawn and the political communities are changed.

Three districting plans will be proposed to the Board of Supervisors in June. The Board will then take its own look at the new districts at a hearing. This hearing will be open to the public.

The Board will introduce and adopt the plan before the early September effective date.

Schedules and redistricting plan requirements are available on the redistricting website.