Politics & Government

New Draft Redistricting Map Leaves Encino in CD5

A previous proposal had placed it in CD4 with Councilman Tom LaBonge.

Many people voiced strong opposition to the rough draft maps of new Los Angeles city district lines that were released by the Los Angeles City Council Redistricting Commission in January. The draft maps planned to move Encino out of Councilman Paul Koretz's Council District 5 and into CD4. The new map pulls both Encino and Lake Balboa out of CD4.

To view the new map, click here for the L.A.Times' interactive graphic: http://graphics.latimes.com/la-council-redistricting-v2/

Perhaps no proposed district in the first map was as publicly questioned as CD4. The L.A. Weekly said the first draft map of CD4 "stretches about 10 miles across Los Angeles -- beginning on the gritty (if gentrifying) Eastside, meandering through the extravagant Hollywood Hills and ending up in the center of the Valley, which might as well be another country."

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LaBonge himself expressed great dismay at the first draft map.

"The only common thread here is the Canadian geese that migrate from the Encino Reservoir to the Silver Lake Reservoir," LaBonge told the Los Angeles Times.

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The map will be discussed at the commission's next meeting, which is scheduled for Wednesday, and it must submit its final map to the Los Angeles City Council by March 1.

 


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