MROSD wants your feedback on redistricting proposals, and they want it soon

At Thursday’s Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District (MROSD) redistricting planning meeting, the District presented six alternative organizations for its wards.

They took input from the community at the meeting and you are invited to comment on them using an online survey. MROSD wants your feedback soon. They’re going to vote on the proposals at their next meeting, Tuesday November 9.

You need to take the survey to see the maps, which are too big to view side by side, and you can only take the survey once. So I’ve extracted the maps from the survey and put them on this page. Click on any map on the right to get a larger version.

In a note to the Open Space Neighbors mailing list, Mike Liebhold reports that MROSD says no members can be added to the board of the greatly expanded district.  According to Mike,  MROSD says they are constrained by the following "laws":

• The Board is limited to 7 members.
• Each ward must represent an equal population.
• The coastside is not populous enough for a separate unified ward so it must be combined with bayside population centers, despite diverging and competing requirements and priorities.
• Board members must live in their wards (therefore new ward boundary shapes are constrained by current board members’ residences. Except for Larry Hasset, all live on the bayside.
• Boundaries chosen by the board next week may not be readjusted until 2010.

DISCLAIMER: I’m posting this story without getting comment from MROSD because the deadline is so close. I’ve sent them an email asking for confirmation and I’ll update the story when I hear back.

I also encourage you to discuss the proposals in the comments on this story.