Item No. 11A
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Thousand Oaks
Introduction to Districting
May 16, 2023
1 Districting Outreach Efforts
• Email and/or phone contact with nearly 50 community leaders and organizations • Rollout of the districting website, MapTOaks.org
• Animated Explainer Video in English and Spanish
• Deitibutoad nine Commies of oferest Survey to develop a list of • Four community workshops (2 in-person, 2 virtual)
• First virtual workshop was on May 11
• Extensive social media engagement, including posts, stories and event reminders across all platforms
• English and Spanish
• Five planned flyers in English and Spanish to promote upcoming community meetings (2 published so far)
• Four press releases distributed to the City's media contacts (1 distributed so far) NDO May 16, 2023 2
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Election Systems
1. "At Large"
"From District" or "Residence" Districts
3. "By District"
"he California Voting Rights Act wa
vitten to specifically encourage by
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3 California Voting Rights Act (CVRA)
• Under the Federal Voting Rights Act (passed in 1965), a jurisdiction must fail 4 factual tests before it is in violation of the law. • The California VRA makes it significantly easier for plaintiffs to force jurisdictions into "by-district" election systems by arguably eliminating two of the US Supreme Court Gingles tests:
• Can the protected class constitute the majority of a district? • Does the protected class vote as a bloc?
• Do the voters who are not in the protected class vote in a bloc to defeat the preferred candidates of the protected class?
• Do the "totality of circumstances" indicate race is a factor in elections? • Liability is now arguably determined only by the presence of racially polarized voting
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CVRA Impact
Switched (or in the process of • Key settlements:
switching) as a result of CVRA: • Palmdale: $4.7 million • At least 275 school districts • Modesto: $3 million
• 36 Community College Districts • Highland: $1.3 million • 185 cities • Anaheim: $1.1 million
• 1 County Board of Supervisors • Whittier: $1 million
• 53 water and other special districts. • Santa Barbara: $600,000 • Cases So Far: • Palm Desert: $555,000
• Palmdale, Santa Clara and Santa Monica • Tulare Hospital: $500,000 went to trial on the merits. Palmdale and
• Camarillo: $233,000
Santa Clara lost. Santa Monica is awaiting
• Compton Unified: $200,000
• Madera Unified: about $170,000
• Hanford Joint Union Schools:
• Merced City: $42,000
• Ancestinted out a in s so far.
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5 Districting Process
Step Description
Two Initial Hearings Held prior to release of draft maps.
May 9 & May 16 Education and to solicit input on the composition of districts.
Release draft maps Maps must be posted at least 7 days prior to 3rd hearing.
Two hearings on draft maps The mcings to discus and revise the draft maps and to discuss June 20 & July 11
Map adoption
Mini adoped via epinted at least 7 days prior to adoprion.
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Districting Rules and Goals
2. California Criteria for 3. Other Traditional
1. Federal Laws
Citles Districting Principles
Equal Population Geographically contiguous
Federal Voting Rights Act Pespect voiers chaices /
Undivided neighborhoods
No Racial Gerrymandering and "communities of Future population growth interest"
(Socio-economic geographic areas
that should be kept together)
3. Easily identifiable
boundaries
4. Compact
o not bypass one group
EFESTEE ople to get to a more dist.
group of people)
Prohibited:
"Shall not favor or disciminate against
a political party."
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7 Catcgory Ficld _Total] Category Ficld ]Total
2020 Census Total Population 127,134 age0-19 24%
Hispanic/Latino 20% Age age20-60 50%
NH White 63% age6Oplus 26%
Demographic Total Pop. NH Black 2% immigrants 18%
NH Asian/Pac.Isl. 14% Immigration naturalized 60%
Summary Hative Amer 1% english 77%
Total 91.642 tangase pakenat spanish 13%
Hisp 15% asian-lang 5%
NH White 73% other lang i 5%
Citizen Voting Age Speaks Eng. "Less
Pop NH Black 2% Language Filuency 8%
chan Very Well"
Asian/Pac. Isl. 9% hs-grad 45%
Each of the five Education (among
Native Amer. 1% bachclor 29%
85,938 those age 25+)
Total graduatedegree 20%
districts must Latino est. 11% child-under18
Child in Household 28%
contain about Voter Registration Spanish-Surnamed 10% Per of Pop. Age 16+ employed 63% Nov 20209 Asian-Surnamed 6% income 0-25k 10%
25,427 people. Filipino-Surnamed 1% income 25-50k 11%
NH White est. 82% Houschold Income income 50.75k 12%
NH Black 1% income 75-200k 41%
Total 76,781 income 200k-plus 25%
Latino est. 10% single family 82%
Voter Turnout Spanish-Surnamed 9% multi-family 18%
Nov Housing Stats
Asian-Surnamed 5% rented 31%
2020)
Filipino-Surnamed 1% owned 69%
NH White est. 82%
NH Black 1%
Total 58,110 Total population dara from Califomia's adjasted 2020 Censu:
Latino est. 8% dat. Citizen Voxing Age Population, Ags, Immigrarion, and other demozrinhic from the 2017.2021 Amenan Communiti
Spanish-Suramed 8%
Voter Turnout Nov Sunvey and Spcaal Tabulation S-yese data. Turnout and Asian-Surnamed Registraion dara fiom Califomia Statew ide Darabase. "Tarino" 2018)
Filipino-Surnamed 1%
bane minilaen br Wc ikine Cenoe Kamui's latına
NH White est. 85% underosant br sumame estim ate.
NH Black est. 1%
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Latino CVAP
Latinos are concentrated
along the 101 freeway.
0% to 25%
25% to 35%
35% to 50%
50% to 65%
65% to 75%
75% to 100%
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No Population
9 Asian-American
CVAP
VENTURA ANY
Asian-Americans are slightly
concentrated in the southwest 0% to 25%
of the city. 25% to 35%
35% to 50%
50% to 65%
65% to 75%
75% to 100%
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African-American
CVAP
African-Americans are not
0% to 25%
geographically concentrated
25% to 35%
35% to 50%
50% to 65%
65% to 75%
75% to 100%
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11 Household income
Other Socio-Economic
over $75,000 per year
Demographics
0% to 25%
50% to 65%
65% to 75%
7510100
No Population
Child at Home Renters
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Defining Neighborhoods
1s* Question: What is your neighborhood?
2nd Question: What are its geographic boundaries?
Examples of physical features defining a neighborhood boundary:
• Natural neighborhood dividing lines, such as highway or major roads, rivers, canals and/or hills
• Areas around parks or schools
Other neighborhood landmarks
In the absence of public testimony, planning records and other similar documents may provide definition.
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13 Beyond Neighborhoods:
Defining Communities of Interest
1s Question: What defines your community?
• Geographic Area, plus
Shared issue or characteristic
• Shared social or economic interest
• Impacted by city policies
• Tell us "your community's story"
2nd Question: Would this community benefit from being "included within a single district for purposes of its effective and fair representation"? • Or would it benefit more from having multiple representatives? Definitions of Communities of Interest may not include relationship vith political parties, incumbents, or political candidate NDO May 16, 2023 14
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Input So Far
• From the May 9t Hearing and May 10th Community
Forum:
• A number of comments regarding various neighborhoods
and communities:
• Freeway corridors
• School attendance areas
• Downtown (Moorpark to 101 to Janss Marketplace)
• Encino Vista
• Westlake Village-adjacent
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15 Public Mapping and Map Review Tools
• Different tools for different purposes
Different tools for different levels of technical skill and interest • Simple "review draft maps" tool
• Paper-based simple "Draw a draft map" tools
• Powerful, data-rich "Draw a draft map" online tool
Whether you use the online mapping tool, the paper kit, or just draw on a napkin, we welcome your maps!
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Simple Map Viewing Tool
Very similar to Google Maps:
• Zoom in and out, or enter an address to see which district it is in • Choose which overlays you wish to view (if any)
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Thousand Oake Districtina 2023 Public Participation Kit Paper "Public
Participation Kit"
• For those
without internet
access or who
prefer paper
• Total Population
Counts only - no
demographic
numbers
YOUR NAME:
EMAIL/PHONE:
02021 CALPER
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Dave's Redistricting App (DRA)
Draw Your Community of Interest or a Full District Map
• Also includes simple district-mapping tool
• Email a link to your map to the City
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19 Public Hearing & Discussion
• What is your neighborhood or community of interest and what are its boundaries?
• What other notable areas are in the City, and what are their boundaries?
• Any questions about the mapping tools?
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Share Your Thoughts
Communities of Interest Survey
Last
Email (Required)
Are you a resident of the City of Thousand Oaks? (Required O No
• Other
Other
wnere is your community locatea:
You can define it by neichborhood, streets, address, proximity to a key landmark tsuch as a school or community centert, or other boundaries Fill out the survey: MapTOaks.org/Survey
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Website
mapTOaks.org
Phone
805-449-2170
Email
[email protected]
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