JUST IN: The City Council managed to narrow six map options down to one today but struggled at first to get enough members to vote in favor of the map. By late afternoon, the new map had passed. Click the 🔗 to see the final version.
.” It chose one of those maps and made some tweaks before presenting it to the full city council for a vote on Friday -- just four days before the federal judge’s deadline of Nov. 8.options being considered by the council that were later narrowed to one.
The committee on Thursday addressed the concerns of splitting apart districts in the Riverside/Avondale area, but in doing so it created new problems, like the dividing of other districts like Springfield in half. There was a large group of people who were upset that a portion of the Northside San Mateo neighborhood was also split, something residents there and even city two council candidates who are on the ballot say is all being done for political reasons.
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