Denver City Council will hold its final vote on a redistricting map tonight.
District 10 will lose neighborhoods in the south of the district, such as Cherry Creek and Country Club, with those moving over to District 5, which Councilwoman currently represents. And the East Colfax neighborhood now split between Districts 5 and 8 will move entirely into District 8.
"We did not achieve that in any of the other maps, so I just wanted to make sure that history recalls on the record that this map was introduced and it was voted down and we did forfeit that majority-minority district at a time when minorities in this city are being displaced rapidly," CdeBaca said during the March 21 council meeting.
CdeBaca's map would have removed some incumbents from their current districts, which other councilmembers sought to avoid. Torres, who'd also proposed her own map, opposed Map D, noting that its sponsors did not make any significant changes even after receiving input from community members."I don’t understand how we can go out and ask community for their feedback and then not reflect it in modified maps," Torres says.
With the map settled, more candidates are likely to start declaring for the Denver City Council races in April 2023. Like Herndon, at-large councilmembers
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