{"id":7688,"date":"2021-10-19T10:46:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T17:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=7688"},"modified":"2021-10-19T10:46:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T17:46:10","slug":"redwood-city-invites-residents-to-participate-in-new-maps-for-redistricting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/redwood-city-invites-residents-to-participate-in-new-maps-for-redistricting-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Redwood City Invites Residents to Participate in New Redistricting Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"812\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Redwood-Redistrict.png\" alt=\"Redwood City called on residents to participate in the new redistricting maps.\" class=\"wp-image-7689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Redwood-Redistrict.png 812w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Redwood-Redistrict-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Redwood-Redistrict-768x378.png 768w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Redwood-Redistrict-18x9.png 18w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Redwood-Redistrict-150x74.png 150w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Redwood-Redistrict-696x343.png 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 812px) 100vw, 812px\" \/><figcaption>Photo: Redwood City<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Redwood City Redistricting Advisory Committee (ARC) wants to hear residents' ideas on where to draw the lines for electing City Council members for the next decade, so it's calling for input and suggestions for the upcoming redistricting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the final 2020 Census results are available and the data shows how the community has changed over the past 10 years, the ARC is asking the community for their help in balancing Redwood City's 84,423 residents among the 7 City Council districts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, the committee has asked to submit their maps by October 25 for consideration by the ARC on November 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Participate in your own way<\/strong> in the Redwood City Redistricting Process<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Redistricting in Redwood City is a community-driven process and there are many ways to get involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tasked with recommending one or more maps to the City Council by December 6, 2021, the ARC invites the community to get involved in the District Mapping process (draft maps) either online or in person in both English and Spanish for consideration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To facilitate the process, the City has launched mapping software that allows you to draw maps of 7 City Council Districts with 2020 Census data while being able to verify that the draft maps submitted meet legal requirements, which include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That the district populations be reasonably equal in population-about 12,060 residents per district; and that the districts be geographically contiguous, considering topography, geography, cohesion, continuity, integrity, and compactness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In person, residents can walk-in to City Hall or the downtown Redwood City library, where trained bilingual staff will be available to help them complete and submit a preliminary map, answer questions and provide other information about the redistricting process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hours of operation are Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.}; while the Redwood City Downtown Library hours are Monday through Thursday, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., and Friday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., with Sunday hours from 12:00 noon to 5:00 p.m. .&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you prefer to draw a draft map on paper, you can do that too! You can get the printed version at City Hall, any Redwood City library or community center, or you can email districttelections@redwoodcity.org and request that it be mailed to you. Map kits and surveys are available in English and Spanish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interested parties can also visit the Redistricting Web site by giving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redwoodcity.org\/departments\/city-clerk\/redistricting-process\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click here <\/a>\u00a0for more information.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>You may be interested in: <a href=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/san-mateo-redistricting-advisory-committee-ready\/\">San Mateo Redistricting Advisory Commission Ready<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Comit\u00e9 Asesor de Reestructuraci\u00f3n de Distritos de Redwood City (ARC) quiere escuchar las ideas de sus residentes sobre d\u00f3nde trazar las l\u00edneas para elegir a los miembros del Concejo Municipal para la pr\u00f3xima d\u00e9cada, por lo que llama a participar y dar sugerencias de cara a la pr\u00f3xima redistritaci\u00f3n.&nbsp; Luego de que los resultados [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cover","8":"category-community"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7692,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688\/revisions\/7692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}