Item B: Ward Redistricting - Criteria

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Attachment B – Public Feedback 1.Do what's right for the citizens not for the politicians or special interests! 2.I recall Eugene in the 50's; Seneca-Jones wet deck west of Garfield: Amazon Park the garbage dump; Central Oregon - Pacific Rail shunting logs - loads across Blair-River Road traffic connection north; Diamond Agripak serving the valley north 3.Please don't gerrymander this city up to suit your desires. There is a fair way to create equal population centers ...your job is to find it. Do not cater to special interest corporations. The people of this city are your first priority. Their descendants are your second. 4.While major roads and natural features sometimes make natural dividers, care should be taken. I-5 is a divider, but River Road is a natural "spine" with a cohesive community spanning each side of the road. 5.Use census tract and block boundaries as much as possible to enable easier monitoring and analysis of changes in demographics of each ward over time. 6.offficials should represent their entire district not just some 7.Santa Clara is now split into two wards by River Road. However, River RD is the common feature connecting Santa Clara to the rest of the city. The Willamette river, Belt Line and NW Expressway are the common geographic and man-made barriers that separate Santa Clara's interests from the rest of the city. If these natural and man-made boundaries are too small for a single ward, including the River Road neighborhood or extending Santa Clara to Hwy 99 makes more sense than splitting the Santa Clara neighborhood into two as it is now. I have more in common with the parent across River Road who's child attends the same school as mine than I do with residents of Coburg RD and Norkenzie, which have more in common with the Cal Young and Good Pasture neighborhoods than mine. 8.If our area is in Eugene, why is our high school in Junction City? We would be better served if we were in the Santa Clara District. However, we seem to be represented by the Bethel District. This area is not our area. Therefore, we have little or no representation. In the last election, we were not given pertinent information. All we received was the tax measure for the Eugene Schools. 9.I do not see a GIS solution. We are paying for a GIS team, lets put them to work. We need the 8 geographical centers (loci). We need the optimal distribution of houses to wards that minimizes the total distance from each loci as proposal 1. We need the optimal distribution of houses to wards that minimizes the total travel distance between each loci and the houses in it as proposal 2. 10.Only seven changes are needed: .4% from Ward 8 to Ward 7 7.6% from Ward 3 to Ward 2 1.7% from Ward 1 to Ward 2 10.6% from Ward 6 to Ward 7 1.6% from Ward 5 to Ward 4 1.1% from Ward 5 to Ward 7 11.7% from Ward 7 to Ward1 Resulting in no deviation from the ideal district size - except for difference due to rounding. There is simply no justification for deviating from the ideal by more than .1 of 1% for any new Ward. 11.River Road/Santa Clara portions of Ward 7 with wards 5 and 6 than they do with the area east of Chambers and south of the river. 12.Eugene's wards seem to be excessively homogenous, politically and culturally. Maybe it's time to consider adopting the system used by the city of Springfield and the Eugene School District, where councilors are elected by all voters, rather than by voters who reside in their respective wards. Would such a change require voter approval of a charter amendment? 13.Consider re-drawing the neighborhood associations at the same time. They are of massively different sizes as well and do not always reflect current population "neighborhoods". 4