Some West Valley City residents will find themselves in new council districts — even though they haven’t moved.
City Council members voted 6-0 on Tuesday in favor of new boundaries for all four districts.
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Redrawing the lines
Go to http://bit.ly/ypkjzT to see a map with the new boundaries for the West Valley City Council districts.
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The tweaks are necessary because of population growth in Utah’s second-most-populous city, particularly along the west side, Planning Director Steve Pastorik said. State law requires cities to adjust their political boundaries "to maintain districts of substantially equal population."
So based on data from the 2010 Census — which showed West Valley City has nearly 130,000 residents, an increase of more than 20,000 since the previous count — staffers proposed new boundaries.
They gave each district roughly the same population, with a deviation of no more than 2 percent from their goal of 32,377. In addition, officials drew the lines along major streets to avoid awkwardly shaped districts, a city report says.
The result: The physical size of District 4 shrank because more people had moved into that area, and the remaining three districts grew. Under the new map, District 1 has 32,525 residents; District 2 has 31,778; District 3 has 32,798; and District 4 has 32,406.
The changes affect four of the city’s seven council members. The City Council has four representatives from districts — Tom Huynh in District 1, Steve Buhler in District 2, Karen Lang in District 3 and Steve Vincent in District 4 — plus two at-large members and a mayor.
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