The City Council Redistricting Commission will hold another five hearings in each of the boroughs to get public testimony on these new preliminary maps released in July. The most recent one having kicked off in Astoria, Queens this Tuesday.
“I think that with the first round of public hearings, people came in person, virtually, or submitted their testimony of over 500 responses. I think that was a good first step,” said Dennis Walcott, chair of the NYC Council Redistricting Commission. “I think we’ll see even more people at the next round of public hearings.”
“Basically to acknowledge the changes in population in the last 10 years and the increase in Asian populations versus the parallel rapid reduction in the white population,” said Citizens Union’s Ben Weinberg. In Tuesday’s hearing, Dan Kaminsky, a policy manager at Citizens Union, testified that the commission should explain the reasoning behind line drawing decisions, most notably the proposed plan to keep three whole city council districts on Staten Island. In order to satisfactorily keep all three districts on the island and not split between other boroughs, the commission used up most of the “legally allowed population deviation.
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