Carlsbad community members have submitted 60 different maps to date showing how they’d like City Council District boundaries to change based on the latest Census. After reviewing the public maps for compliance with redistricting rules, the city’s professional demographer presented 42 of those maps at the latest public hearing, along with four draft maps of its own.
The maps reflect different philosophies about what parts of town should stay together for the purpose of electing a City Council member:
- Some were very similar to existing district boundaries with minor changes to balance the populations in each district.
- Others attempted to follow Palomar Airport Road and El Camino Real as lines dividing the city roughly to quadrants.
- Including part of the coast in all four districts or grouping people who live at the coast into just one or two districts was another difference among the maps.
After listening to community member input at the public hearing, commissioners shared their thoughts on the draft maps so far. The professional demographer suggested commissioners identify their favorite maps as a way to start the narrowing process. The commission must choose a map by April 17, 2022.
The 12 maps below were identified as favorites by one or more commissioners. The commission as a body did not eliminate any maps presented from contention at the public hearing. Maps are numbered so as to not associate draft maps with the people who created them.