Redistricting commission sends plan to Mesa City Council - East Valley Tribune: East Valley Local News: "Many Mesa residents will have a new City Council member representing their interests in 2012 through a redistricting process that's been giving many participants heartburn.
Yet the new district boundaries are likely to get approved, even if unenthusiastically.
The redistricting effort's largest controversy focused on west Mesa and downtown, where attempts to meet federal voting laws resulted in an oddly shaped District 3 of southwest Mesa.
No matter what potential configuration the members of the city's Redistricting Commission tried, they ran into problems. Either they drew a compact district that kept similar areas together but would be illegal, or their plans met the law but had elongated fingers or hook-shaped features that seemed to defy common sense."
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