The 6/7 and 7/6 is much fairer than the older maps

Please consider this districting. It makes sense to include the tri-city area and the Great lakes Bay Region.

This district is great, Midland should be included with the rest of the Tri-cites and flint which this map has. If people really insist on keeping Midland county whole, then take a lit bit of western Saginaw county off as that is very rural. Do not, under any circumstance, include Arenac or Tuscola county with this district as those counties are extremely rural. Please include this district in your final plan.

I have a lot of family in the tri-cities area. I like that this plan keeps them together because they are definitely connected. I can see there is a lot of disagreement about splitting Midland county vs. splitting the tri-cities. A compromise would be to do neither. You could extend the district to take all of Midland county and then trim off some of Bay or Saginaw county.

I really like how district 11 is drawn. It well represents the community by including the entirety of Warren and Grosspointe which are more closely related to such a community than northern areas such as Washington and New Haven.

I am focused on Midland, being a 30+-year resident. I really like this proposed approach, which keeps the long-time Tri-Cities, now known as the Great Lakes Bay Region, together. Midland, Bay City, and Saginaw form a community of interest based on shared economic, cultural, educational, and functional aspects. We have an industrial base in Midland, not an agricultural one and District 5 as drawn in map #144 recognizes this. Examples of each of these aspects include: employers (Dow & other chemical manufacturers, GM & associated automobile/supply companies); SVSU & Delta College & Northwood University and high school sports leagues; our orchestras and theater groups, restaurants, and water sports; and the MBS airport. We are a suburban/urban area that fits quite well with Flint in order to provide reasonable Congressional representation. District 5 of this map (#144) does a great job of combining these communities of interest to ensure that representation. Yes, it splits Midland County, but Midland County can be represented as a whole at the State level (both House & Senate) to ensure all the communities of interest have a voice. Certainly, western Midland County is more rural, as are Gladwin County & Isabella County; this map puts all those more rural parts together, ensuring a combined representation of their more rural interests. Clearly counties will need to be split-up in this redistricting effort to meet all the requirements; this proposed split of Midland County is a reasonable approach that I wholly support. Please adopt District 5 as shown in this map #144!

Even though this map splits Midland County, it is a logical split. The western section is definitely more rural and shares educational and agricultural interests with District 7. I approve of this plan to unite the Tri-Cities! I live in Midland and know how much we share with Bay City and Saginaw. Our support of Delta College and SVSU and of our international airport are just two examples. Please adopt this map. Thank you for all your work!

I really like this configuration of the Tri-Cites being kept together as well as adding Flint with it. These areas have many industrial similarities. I will also note, that many people are saying to keep their counties together, even though it is impossible to keep every county whole. So some county has to be split somewhere, and this split in Midland county is one in which I agree with.

I like that this map keeps the City of Midland with the Tri-Cities and Flint. Its economic base is industrial, not agricultural and needs appropriate representation as such. Dow is more than 1/3 of tax base and without it the small businesses that thrive in this city wouldn't exist. I have lived in rural Midland county and the city and I can attest to the different needs of each area as well. Midland is a city with a large international industrial business as its main economic base, it has a vibrant theater and arts community that connects in many ways with the Tri-Cities and Flint including theater productions and art shows that incorporate people from all these cities, and many of our non-profits have regional directors that serve the entire area, not just one city. We have been called the Tri-Cities as well as Mid-Michigan for a long time and our TV and radio stations are the same ones. There are so many reasons that this region needs a representative that can focus on the needs of these communities.

This is, by far, the best map.

Regarding district 5 - I do think it makes sense to group the tri cities (Saginaw, Bay City, Midland) and Flint given their congruent interests and close geographic proximity to one another.

Focusing on District 5, I like this map! This finally would give the citizens of the City of Midland, Bay City, Saginaw and the metropolitan area of Flint representation. We can keep Midland County together in a house district and in a Congressional district. I also agree with the points made by Kenneth Shoon regarding the rest of this map. Please adopt this map or something very close to it. Thank you for your attention to fair maps!

My immediate impression: this map makes sense! A big improvement from the current map and from the other plans presented. Please adopt this map. This map is VRA compliant, and the majority-minority 13th District brings together clear communities of interest along the Detroit River. It makes much more sense to combine Ann Arbor with the Western Wayne County and Western Oakland County suburbs than with the Downriver suburbs. The 9th district brings together the bulk of Oakland County’s diverse, relatively affluent suburbs minus those that are joined with Ann Arbor. Madison Heights and Hazel Park are divided from neighboring Royal Oak and Ferndale, but they share characteristics with diverse, neighboring Warren as well, including similar voting patterns and median household income. Their inclusion in the 11th district brings together a more working class constituency than if this district were to include more exurban neighborhoods in northern Macomb County. District 10 clearly represents more rural and exurban communities of interest. While there seems to be a vocal and organized contingent of folks on here who believe that Midland should be grouped with more rural areas to the north and west… were not Midland, Bay City, and Saginaw once called the Tri-Cities? The U.S. Census Bureau identifies these three cities as a combined statistical area, the Saginaw-Midland-Bay City CSA, meaning that they share quantifiable economic and social ties. These jurisdictions share a regional airport. This map keeps 90% of Midland County’s population together along with 100% of neighboring Bay and Saginaw Counties, and if Midland County is not split, another county will be. Outside Metro Detroit, District 5 does a great job bringing together the metropolitan areas adjacent to I-75, while rural communities in Mid-Michigan and the Thumb are represented in Districts 2 and 10.

I love this map! As a resident of Melvindale, I'm very pleased to see my town included with the rest of Downriver. The only thing I'd change would be to swap the townships of Sumpter, Augusta, and Huron to District 8, and consequently swapping areas near Chelsea and Lyndon Township to District 7. Other than that, this is the best map I've seen from the commission. I hope this one gets adopted!

I find this map to offer representation for Bay City and County, for Saginaw and County, and For Flint and Genesee, as well as for the populous part of Midland, ie. Midland City. While the NH White population is high, I believe that taking population west, east or north will only increase that figure. I like this map. My focus is on District 5.

Terrible map-dislike this split of Midland- does not have Midland interest- not a good map