The Yolo County Redistricting Advisory Committee, which is charged with drafting Yolo County supervisorial district boundaries for the coming decade, wants to hear input from Davis residents at a public hearing Wednesday.

The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. at the Davis Senior Center, 646 A St. It is designed to hear ideas and concerns from Davis residents about the shape of Supervisorial Districts 2 and 4, and about which neighborhoods should be part of which districts.

Supervisor Don Saylor represents District 2, which covers Central, North and West Davis, and Supervisor Jim Provenza represents District 4, which covers East and South Davis.

“Davis is too large a city to have only one supervisor in this county, and so there will be lines drawn through the city that will separate one district from another,” said Tony Bernhard, former Yolo County clerk, who is assisting the county in this process. “This is an opportunity for those who are concerned about how these districts are drawn to make their views known to the commission.”

The Redistricting Advisory Committee must make its recommendations to the Yolo County Board of Supervisors by Aug. 1. The board then will adopt revised district boundaries by Sept. 30 in order for them to take effect for the June 2012 primary elections.

Each district should have about 40,000 residents, according to the latest numbers from the state Department of Finance.

Members of the commission include Craig Reynolds and Richard Harris, who were selected by Saylor and Provenza; as well as Dominic DiMare, appointed by 1st District Supervisor Mike McGowan of West Sacramento; Frank Sieferman, appointed by rural 5th District Supervisor Duane Chamberlain; and Marco Lizarraga, appointed by 3rd District Supervisor Matt Rexroad of Woodland.

The Redistricting Advisory Committee also will conduct a public hearing at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 18, at West Sacramento City Hall, 1110 Capitol Ave.

David Morrison, assistant director of planning and public works, said in January that he predicts a few tweaks to the district boundaries established in 2000, but not an overhaul. Davis’ Mace Ranch neighborhood continued to grow and the university accepted more students over the past 10 years. The Spring Lake neighborhood boosted Woodland’s population, just as the Southport development did in West Sacramento.

For more information, visit http://www.yolocounty.org.

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