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REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br />DECEMBER 19, 2011 <br />TITLE: <br />PUBLIC HEARING: CONSIDER NEW CITY <br />COUNCIL WARD BOUNDARY LINES <br />C� I� <br />CITY MANAGER <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: <br />APPROVED <br />❑ As Recommended <br />❑ As Amended <br />❑ Ordinance on 1" Reading <br />❑ Ordinance on 2"d Reading <br />❑ Implementing Resolution <br />❑ Set Public Hearing For_ <br />CONTINUED TO <br />FILE NUMBER <br />Adopt an ordinance changing the boundary lines of the City Council Wards. <br />DISCUSSION <br />Every 10 years, the City of Santa Ana reviews its City Council Ward boundaries to account for <br />shifts and changes in the population. The reboundary process for City Council Wards is based <br />on the population figures provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. The basic goal of the <br />reboundary process as required by the City Charter is to redraw the Council Ward boundaries <br />so that the wards are equal in population. <br />According to the 2010 Census, Santa Ana's population is 324,528, a decrease of more than <br />13,400 residents from the 2000 Census, which indicated that Santa Ana had 337,977 <br />residents. The population shifts within each ward are significant enough to require new <br />boundary lines to be redrawn - the largest gap between Ward 4 with 47,941 residents and <br />Ward 6 with 59,396, a difference of more than 12,000 residents, the average being 54,088. <br />This proposed reboundary is categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality <br />Act ( "CEQA ") pursuant to Section 15320 — Class 20 (Changes in Organization of Local <br />Agencies) of the CEQA Guidelines, California Code of Regulations, Title 14, Chapter 3, since it <br />involves a proposed reorganization of the City Council Wards and does not change the <br />geographical area in which previously existing powers are exercised. <br />What is Re- boundary and why do it? <br />Re- boundary is the redrawing or adjusting of Ward lines to ensure that legislative <br />representation is fair and balanced. It is done every ten years, after the census data is <br />compiled, to account for population shifts and growth over the last decade. The purpose is to <br />75A -1 <br />