Fwd: Comment to include Sunnyvale with Mountain View in congress/state/senate redistricting maps

[Thida Cornes]

Dear activists,

Please feel free to forward.

Perhaps you were aware of the redistricting efforts but I know some of us focus more on specific issues. 

Redistricting will significantly affect how well governments can work together. Currently, all the draft maps (congress, state senate, state assembly) separate Mountain View from Sunnyvale.

Here's how you can comment

 https://wedrawthelines.ca.gov/contact_public_comment/

Below is the comment I wrote. If you wish the same level or greater cooperation between Sunnyvale and Mountain View, I highly encourage you to comment.

Thanks,

Thida

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From: Thida Cornes <tco...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: Public Comment for State Redistricting
To: LWV Board

Here's what I wrote in the comments

I live in Mountain View. All the draft maps (congress, state senate, state assembly) significantly change the regions that Mountain View, Los Altos and Los Altos Hills are joined with, and put us together with Campbell, San Jose, and south of Los Gatos.  Mountain View, Los Altos, and Los Altos Hills all border each other. The new maps separate us from Sunnyvale, which borders Mountain View. Sunnyvale is also a small town with an active City Council and the two work together on projects that are near or cross their borders. It makes no sense to put Mountain View with Campbell, which does not border any of the above cities. I think separating Sunnyvale from Mountain View will make it harder for these two neighboring cities to work together.

Thanks, 

Thida

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[Bruce England]

https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/map_viewer

Cheers,
Bruce 

On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 12:48 PM David Lewis <carolandd...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thida,

     Do you have a link to the proposed maps for MV?

Dave Lewis

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[Bruce England]

Is there a higher quality map showing individual cities with borders and key roadways? Kind of hard to tell much from this rendition.

Thanks!
Bruce 

On Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 12:44 PM Serge Bonte <sbo...@gmail.com> wrote:

FYI, the Congressional Map was changed on Friday and the likely map is below. Yep Mountain View and Palo Alto would now be part of a "Central Coast District" going from Pacifica to Santa Cruz and all the way down to Paso Robles

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[Bruce England]

I commented during the meeting last night the following (leaving out the intro and closing here):

I'm concerned that Mountain View would be separated from Sunnyvale and Cupertino per current plans. For transportation, land use, and other purposes, there is a tremendous amount of synergy across these cities that would be lost or compromised. From a larger perspective, Mountain View collaborates regularly with these cities along with Palo Alto and Los Altos. Multiple examples of this exist as active transportation and transit options are considered or developed across our region, and how jobs and housing development are best considered. Accordingly, having single points of representation for us is the ideal.

Cheers,
Bruce 

On Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 4:57 PM Tracy Chu <trac...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for sharing!

I’m not following the redistributing so closely so it’s unclear to me why they are proposing these boundaries but I think the central coast district looks pretty wacky spanning parts of 5 counties whose residents probably don’t know much about each others interests and also cuts off MV from neighbors Sunnyvale and Los Altos. I can’t imagine  single person can effectively rep such disparate interests well. 

I sent my comments to the committee

https://airtable.com/shrQDD2ta2emnSzzO

I hope they rework this gain before the deadline!

On Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 4:03 PM Serge Bonte <sbo...@gmail.com> wrote:

Here's where Mountain View falls after zooming in here: https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/map_viewer (using the 12-17 iteration layer)

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[Bruce England]

Hi, all:

Please consider commenting to help get this fixed here: https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/public_input

Kevin Ma tells me tomorrow, Monday, is the last day for this.

Thanks!
Bruce 

On Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 9:54 PM Sally Lieber <sa...@sallylieber.org> wrote:

Mountain View and Sunnyvale have been in the same legislative districts for a very long time and share a number of issues and interests in common: reuse of Moffett Field, toxics remediation, Bay restoration, the Bay Trail, housing and transit. The maps that are being advanced, would not help either Mtn View or Sunnyvale, but instead would damage our interests. Our common issues are becoming even more pressing, not less so, with the impact of Bay level rise and groundwater rise.

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[John Scarboro]

Hopefully I’m not stating the too obvious, but in addition to the previous reasons given, this looks like the gerrymandering that minimizes progressive representation more and more throughout the country these days.

Thanks for the heads up on this and how to provide comment!

John

> On Dec 20, 2021, at 11:07 AM, Serge Bonte <sbo...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I think at a minimum Los Altos and Los Altos Hills should be kept with Mountain View and Palo Alto as we share school districts, sports teams, streets, neighborhoods ..... Just a few months ago, the Los Altos Community Foundation was renamed to the Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation !

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[John Scarboro]

Hi Rick,

Comments are under the contact menu item on the wedrawthelines website: https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/contact

John

> On Dec 20, 2021, at 10:20 AM, Rick Armstrong <rick...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Work in Palo Alto, live in Santa Clara. Seems odd to pigeon hole Palo Alto with the coast, not its municipal neighbors.
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> Tried to understand how to submit public comment, all I can do is see list of comments ... any tips on how to find the submit comment before deadline appreciated.
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> - Rick

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