LA City Council Redistricting Commission to Present Draft Map

LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles City Council Redistricting Commission will hold its first of four meetings Oct. 6 to present the public with its draft map for new council district boundaries. The draft map defines borders for 13 districts, leaving details out of Councilman Paul Krekorian’s District 2 and Councilwoman Nithya Raman’s District 4. The borders for those two districts have yet to be determined, and one of the council members could end up in a district with entirely new constituents. “Last week the L.A. City Redistricting Commission moved forward with a proposed map that effectively ‘erases’ our district in its current form. This happened despite the fact that the minimal changes in population in L.A. show no basis whatsoever for such drastic shifts,” Raman, who was elected to represent that district in 2020, wrote on Twitter on Tuesday. She told constituents that she could either lose all but 29 percent …

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