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7M� <br />Traditional Redistricting Principles <br />Should be followed by Local Agencies <br />There area number of criteria that have been used <br />nationally and upheld by courts. <br />• Relatively equal size - people, not citizens <br />• Contiguous—districts should not hop/jump <br />• Maintain "communitiesofinterest" <br />• Follow city/county/local government lines <br />• Keep districts compact—appearance/function <br />69 REDISTRICTING <br />00 PARTNERS <br />Communities of Interest <br />Bringing like people together for representation <br />What is a community of Interest includes ethnic and <br />language minorities and other groups. <br />• Communities covered by the Voting Rights Act <br />• Latinos <br />• Asians <br />• African Americans <br />• Religious communities <br />• Other Nationality/Ethnic communities <br />City of Santa Ana <br />Latino and Asian Communities <br />There are densities of Latino and Asian population that <br />will need to be considered in line drawing process. <br />For ethnic populationswe are concerned with the "Citizen Voting <br />Age Population" (CVAP( as calculated bythe US Census in annually <br />through the American Community Survey. <br />Base ethnicity of the district shows 17%Asian and 60% Latino <br />CVAP. However, these populations are not evenly distributed - <br />there are strong concentmtions of each in parts of the district. <br />CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 22 SEPTEMBER 4, 2018 <br />1 OA -22 <br />