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WARD BOUNDARY REALIGNMENT ORD. NS-1151 The Mayor opened the public hearing on ward boundary realignment and requested a staff report. Assistant to the City Manager G. David Tayco stated that a recent amendment to the Government Code required that chartered cities that elect Council members by wards must apportion councilmanic wards on the basis of equal population according to the 1970 Federal Census rather than equal numbers of registered voters; that Ward 3 had approximately 15,000 population and Ward 7 approximately 28,000, a variation of 85%; that in order to conform to State law, the boundaries must be realigned to achieve nearly equal population in each ward no later than January 31, 1973; that specific new ward boundaries incorporating as few changes as possible and which maintained each Councilman within his ward were proposed; that no ward boundary divided a precinct; that natural boundaries and street lines had been followed wherever possible; that the difference in population between the largest and smallest ward was only 5.3%. No one spoke in favor of the matter. Dr. Walter Flaherty, 1915 N. Flower, stated that it would be better for Council to defer action until after the proposed ward boundaries had been published in the newspaper and asked why Fifth Street had been made a boundary instead of Sixth or Seventh. In response, Mr. Tayco stated that block groups containing approximately 1,000 people each had been used to determine popula- tion and that Fifth Street happened to be the boundary of one of the block groups. Mrs. Janice Boer, 912 North Lowell Street, stated that she was neither in favor of nor opposed to the realignment, but believed that the proposed ward boundaries should have been published in the newspaper, placed on the bulletin boards, and in other ways made available to citizens in advance of the hearing and that some people might be unable to run for Council if the realignment had put them into a ward where there was no opening. Councilman Herrin concurred with Mrs. Boer regarding the publica- tion of the new ward boundaries before the hearing. There being no further proponents or opponents the Mayor closed the public hearing. ORDINANCE NS-1151 CHANGING AND ESTABLISHING THE BOUNDARY LINES OF THE WARDS OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA passed to second reading on motion of Councilman Evans, seconded by Councilman Villa, and carried on the following roll call vote: AYES: NOES: ABSENT: Evans, Yamamoto, Villa, Griset, Markel Herrin Patterson PUBLIC HEARING DOWNTOWN REDEVELOPMENT ORD. NS-1149 RES. NO. 72-120 because of a request from Mr. The Mayor announced that the matter of the proposed down- town redevelopment was not a legal public hearing but would be treated as such Bill Croddy, 201 S. Broadway, con- tained in his letter dated December 14, 1972, asking that Council adopt an ordinance and resolution to create a redevelopment agency. CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 478 DECEMBER 18, 1972