9-member panel appointed to redraw San Diego's council district boundaries
Three retired judges selected an independent panel of volunteers Friday to lead
The nine-member redistricting panel is comprised of three attorneys, an educator, a retired fire chief, an economist, a fiduciary accountant, a nonprofit official and a former school board member.
There are six whites, one Black, one Latino and one Asian on the panel. The city's population is 43 percent White, 29 percent Latino, 17 percent Asian, 6 percent Black and 3 percent multiracial.
The panel includes one member from each of the city's nine council districts. The representative from
The judges chose the nine panelists from 103 applicants.
In coming months, the panel will create new boundary lines for the city's council districts based on data from the 2020 U.S. Census. They must complete their work within nine months of receiving the census data, which is expected later this year.
The redistricting process is expected to be less turbulent than 2010, when a redistricting commission had to expand the number of council districts from eight to nine, necessitating significant changes. This time the city will stick with nine districts.
Six members listed their ethnicity as white. Among the minorities is Marlbrough, who is Black; Lee, who is Asian; and Hernandez, who is Latino.
The retired judges also selected two alternates,
The judges who made the selections are
Potential issues for the panel include that
Other changes include significant development and population increases in
Federal law requires that differences in population between the largest district and the smallest district be at most 4.9 percent. Redistricting ensures that the city complies with that.
There might also be geographic shifts or changes in ethnic balance within districts. And the city might have to shift away from the current breakdown of two districts along the coast, three north of
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