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Four organizers from within the Redistricting Justice for Seattle (RJS) Coalition will analyze Seattle’s 2022 redistricting results, process, and what it means for the future of Seattle City Council.
The Redistricting Commission finalized their map on Nov. 8 after a slew of proposals. Now…
The five-member nonpartisan Seattle Redistricting Commission voted to finalize Seattle’s first-ever redistricting map plan.
The Commission voted 4-1 on the plan, with former Seattle mayor and Commissioner Gregory Nickels dissenting because Magnolia was split between Districts 6 and 7, a major point of contention in the waning days of the process.
The final map does not…
After initially promising to only make minor changes to the District 6 and 7 boundary at their previous meeting, the Seattle Redistricting Commission voted to consider two different amendments to their final draft map plan that split the University of Washington from the neighboring University District.
These amendments come just 6 days before the Commission takes a final vote…
"It's not just a question of splitting Magnolia," said Andrew Hong, a coordinator for Redistricting Justice for Seattle. The coalition supports keeping communities of color together through the redistricting process, as well as supporting the interests of renters, young people, and low-income residents.
"It's also a question of, do we split Fremont into three different districts, which was a proposed remedy to keep Magnolia whole," Hong said…
"At the end, the Seattle City Council redistricting process and the commission are tasked with drawing a map for the entire city, not just for Magnolia," Hong said. "I think they did the best job they could do."
On Monday, the Seattle Redistricting Commission heeded the calls of city-wide community coalitions, moving on to the final phases of establishing the Seattle City Council district boundaries for the next decade. Despite some fierce local pushback from Magnolia residents who lobbied to be unified in District 6, the plan keeps many other neighborhoods whole by splitting Southeast Magnolia between District 6 and District 7. The advancing map hewed closely to the vision put forth by Redistricting Justice for Washington.
The Magnolia outcry prompted…
The Seattle Redistricting Commission has settled on new borders for the city’s council districts that will shave off only small areas of District 3 representing Capitol Hill and the Central District to help balance disproportionate population growth in the city’s core.
The vote for the new Seattle City Council borders came Monday as the commissioners are nearing finalization of the new districts, backing off a last-minute adjustment that would have also carved off a portion of the University of Washington area to join D3 represented by Kshama Sawant.
A final vote on the plan is…
The process of redrawing Seattle’s City Council districts map is winding down after months of discussion, but multiple options are still on the table, including a late-arriving proposal that would separate the University of Washington campus from the rest of the University District neighborhood…
Many Magnolia residents have urged the commission, including in a meeting Tuesday, to keep their neighborhood together. But the UW and several U District groups are opposing the proposal to make changes in the U District, as is a coalition focused on racial and economic justice in redistricting [RJS].
