City Council Elections Redistricting Project
Communities of Interest Overview
September 9, 2021
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Presentation Overview
» Project Schedule
» Overview of Communities of Interest
» Communities of Interest Workshop Recap
» Upcoming Meetings
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Project Schedule
We are here
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Redistricting Criteria
» Federal Criteria
• Population equality
• Federal Voting Rights Act
• No racial gerrymandering
» State Criteria
1. Geography contiguity
2. Neighborhoods/communities of interest
3. Easily identifiable boundaries
4. Compactness
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» A “community of interest” is defined as a community or neighborhood with shared inter
ests, views, and characteristics, such as:
• Mobile home parks
• Business areas
• Specific neighborhoods
• Race
• Income
• Education
• Language spoken
» These communities of interest have similar needs, goals, and desires unique to their own com
munity
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» Most common communities of interest:
• Homeowners Associations (HOAs)
• Mob
ile Home Parks
• Residential Neighborhoods
• Physical boundaries
Across Highway 101
Fremont Avenue
Fair Oaks Avenue
• School Boundaries
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Overview of Communities of Interest Workshop
» August 5, 2021 from
6:30 to
8:00 PM
» Hybrid in-person a nd virtual
workshop
• In-person= 12 participants
• Virtu
al= 36 participants
» Note: the online mapping exercise in the
workshop was kept live through August 31.
In-person group visible
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Workshop Demographic Data- Age
5%
35%
38%
22%22%
44%
26%
8%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
45%
50%
18 to 29 years old 30 to 49 years old 50 to 69 years old 70+ years old Workshop Participants 2019 Sunnyvale Total Voting Age Population Attachment 2
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Workshop Demographic Data-
Race/Ethnicity
59%
9%
15%
9% 6% 3%
32%
19%
45%
0%
5%
0%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
Non-Hispanic White Hispanic or Latino Asian Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander
Two or more races Other
Workshop Participants 2019 Sunnyvale Total
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Workshop Demographic Data- Household
Income
0%
31%
38%
31%
14%
18%
32%
36%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
45%
Under $50k $50k to $100k $100k to $200k Over $200k
Workshop Participants 2019 Sunnyvale Total
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Workshop Demographic Data- Housing
Tenure
36%
54%56%
44%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
Renter Owner
Workshop Participants 2019 Sunnyvale Total
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Workshop Demographic Data
Council
Districts
13%
6% 6%
10%
16%
32%
16%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4 District 5 District 6 Unknown Attachment 2
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Identification of Communities of Interest
» In-person participants marked
phy
sical maps
» Virtual participants directed a
faci
litator to mark their maps
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Communities of Interest
» St. Thomas Church area (includes library,
communit
y center, Zanotto grocery store)
» School Districts
» Mobile home parks
• Support for maintaining all mobile home parks
in one area like is
currently done in District 6
• Note that the Henderson and Rancho La Mesa
mobile home
parks are not included in District 6
• Lakewood Village
• North Sunnyvale because of unique traffic
problems
, wetlands area, and bounded by
major freeways
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Communities of Interest
» LatinX and/or low-income communities
• SNAIL neighborhood
• North of El Camino Real/around Columbia
Communit
y Center
» Neighborhood Associations
• Ortega Park
• Panama Park
• Cumberland and Cherry Chase neighborhoods
should
be combined
• Birdland neighborhood, bounded to the north
by F
remont Avenue and bounded to the west by
either Wolfe Road or Sunnyvale Saratoga Road
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Communities of Interest
(submitted after workshop)
» Ponderosa Park Neighborhood
» SunnyArts Neighborhood
» Cupertino
Elementary and High
Schoo
l Districts
» Presentation by Sunnyvale Neighbors
of A
rbor including La Linda (SNAIL)
Neighborhood Leader, Valarie Suares
• Emailed to Commission on August 26
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Other Feedback
» Maintain existing Council district boundaries to the extent possible. » Need updated Census data to identify the communities of interest. » Keep existing neighborhoods together.
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Questions and
Discussion
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DISCUSSION
» What Communities of interest should stay together to elect a Counc
ilmember?
» What Communities of interest would be better served by being split into
two or more Council districts?
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Communities of Interest Overview
September 9, 2021
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