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Sheila Phillips
I realize there are lines that split communities and some of the lines look odd. However, I feel this is a reasonable map. There will never be a map that is exactly what everyone is happy with..
Dave Morgan
Why would a school district be split is two? Marshall and Albion share the same school district. Why would they not be kept together? Also Battle Creek, Emmett, Pennfield, Bedford, and Springfield share Police and Fire with Mutual Aid, they all are members of BCATS, and AMASA, share the same Library, Sewer system, Chamber of Commerce and on and on. Albion and Battle Creek share nothing in common including having separate Chambers of Commerce, Separate NAACP Branches, not to mention with this map you have to drive through another district to get from one side to the other. This map is obviously gerrymandered and stretched and is no different than what currently exist which says enough sing the district was one used as an example of a gerrymandered district and a reason why this commission was needed.
Joel Arnold
I do like that this map does not group the entirety of the City of Flint into a single district, however it does not guarantee minority representation as the City currently has with the 34th District. Please continue to work on this, and reference submitted map P7273 as a good model of a map that allows for representation of minority communities without drawing all of Flint into a single district.
Marian MAhoney
This map is an improvement over the Pine map. I encourage the commission to add Novi’s northern precincts into district 110 to keep our city whole and not dilute our minority voters voices.
Alex Meyers
The cities of Farmington and Farmington Hills share many things, including a school and library system. Splitting the communities up along an arbitrary line (I-696) does not make sense.
DARLENE LITTLEJOHN
FIVE Districts for EATON COUNTY! REALLY? We are rural, and if we have to combine with another county, it should be another rural county IF you are even still doing Communities of Interest.
Christopher McMillan
Good in that it groups Midland and Bay cities. Should make for a good representative and competitive district.
Margaret Schankler
Please move the prison population to an overpopulated district to address prison gerrymandering.
Margaret Schankler
Please move the prison population to an overpopulated district to address prison gerrymandering.
katrhleen curell
I am in favor of this map because of the fact that it combines Midland and Bay City in one District. Thank you for the emphasis on COI and a map that aims for zero partisan bias, therefore allowing voters to have a real voice in Lansing.
Stephen Stackable
As an independent voter , this is a plan for Midland city and Midland county that I cannot support. Midland city and county have serious flood issues and other interests more aligned with the counties to the north and west of city and county. This is prime example of gerrymandering.
Eric Anders
This well-balanced map makes the most sense since it represents the cultural, economic, educational, and social aspects that residents living Midland share with their neighbors in Bay City.
Judy Daubenmier
This map at least makes an effort to unpack the city of Ann Arbor compared to the other maps. Many people in Livingston County commute to Ann Arbor for work or school or go there for health care so they are familiar with the area for many reasons. Glad you are trying to make the districts more fair on a partisan basis.
Julia Ludwig
This map eliminates the idea of a united lake shore district. A narrower map extending further north at least to Douglas/Saugatuck would unite communities of economic, environmental and ethnic (Black and Hispanic) commonalities. Please replace this map with the Pine map - edited to reflect more partisan balance. Thank you.
Lisa
Why after many, many displeased comments on all the previous maps (going back to the beginning of the drawing of this district), have you not corrected these egregious districts that serve to dilute the voices of Pontiac voters and other communities as well? The residents of these communities will not accept the "it's too much work" answer. Commenters from Lake Orion, Oxford, Clarkston, Independence Township, Waterford, Auburn Hills, Bloomfield and Pontiac have all stated that these districts do not preserve COIs and do not represent the communities involved in any way. Fix this!
Chuck Murphy
Commenting on the “Szetela State house plan” for district 56 which includes parts of Gratiot, Saginaw, Shiawassee and Genesee
You have already split up Gratiot County and drew the balance with rural and suburban areas of four different counties although not happy with it it is acceptable. Now this plan takes all the rural parts of district 56 removes the suburban parts of the district and with blatant political gerrymandering breaks up the work of commissioner Curry of Detroit, splitting up the city of Saginaw into two districts, a violation of the 1965 voting rights act. Please do not allow this to go forward changing the hard work of Commissioner Curry of Detroit.
Cassandra M Foley
I like District 53 in which Bay City and Midland are united in the same House district. This would give better representation to these cities that share so much. It is a more competitive and fair district, which is the goal of this process. Thank you for all your hard work!
Sharon Buttry
The Detroit Hamtramck Coalition for Advancing Healthy Environments gave you a map clearly indicating we need a united voice for Hamtramck and East side of Detroit to address environmental justice concerns. District 2 needs to go all the way to Gratiot at the very least.
Daniel Buttry
8 districts in the Detroit and northern suburbs cross county lines creating Districts that don't have clear community centers. They could easily be done more of a box shape than long thin shapes.
Julie Wuerfel
This is the best map for Berrien County as it keeps us with 2 representatives and limited divide.
Marie Fox
This is a good house district. it achieves a near zero political bias in the district which will allow the people to elect a representative that works for them and not their party, and it unifies two closely aligned cities that share economic, cultural, and educational ties. Please continue to improve the maps until the seat shares match the vote shares of the state (54% D / 47% R)
Christine Jarosik Pawlak
This house map shows a good partisan fairness score and keeps the City of Holland and Holland Township, which both have sizeable minority populations together.
Cindy Weir
Great Map! Thank you for including Midland and Bay City into a State House district. These two cities have more in common with each than the rural districts surrounding them. Even though the shape is odd, it is more representative as a community and political bias is closer to zero, which will make the district more competitive, and allow for better representation. And this is the goal of proposal 2. Please continue to improve the maps until the seat shares match the vote shares of the state (54% D / 47% R) Thank you!
Anne Wallin
Thank you for keeping the towns of Midland and Bay City in the same district. Many people live in one city and work in a different one. As municipalities with a industrial bases, we have many similar interests from public policy. There is much logic to keeping urban/suburban areas together as a COI. I also urge you to keep districts competitive from a political party perspective if feasible. Thank you for your work.
JESSIE WOOD
This is a good house district. it achieves a near zero political bias in the district which will allow the people to elect a representative that works for them and not their party, and it unifies two closely aligned cities that share economic, cultural, and educational ties. Please continue to improve the maps until the seat shares match the vote shares of the state (54% D / 47% R)
Dan Holowicki
Traditionally aligned Downriver communities are split into 4 different districts in this map. Not a good idea for those of us who live in and care about the needs and interests of the Downriver communities.
Karen J Obits
This house map - of all available draft house maps available for comment at this stage in the process - is the one I endorse, for the following reasons: it best captures my Community of Interest of North Ottawa County's Tri-Cities area (Grand Haven north toward Muskegon) and exhibits the best partisan fairness measures of all house maps to-date
Carol Heron
I like this House District. Midland and Bay City share many urban and suburban concerns. This configuration allows for their fair representation in a way that has never been seen.
Douglas Floto
District 33 lops of my region of commerce two from our communities if interest to th south and east. It dumps us in the fascist-leaning Republican insurrectionists and Covid deniers to the north and west. This is going to lead to marginalizing moderates and independents and tip the balance to a handful of extremists.
Suzanne Kinnen
This map splits Berkley and Oak Park to include half of Royal Oak. I'm not in favor of this.
Marie Johansen
Map 241 District 53, while the shape of the district does seem a bit linear, I believe it does reflect accurately the ties that Midland and Bay City have both economically and culturally. I like that it does balance the mix of both communities along with the diversity of the people who live in each community. They do have shared interests and because both urban cites are also imbedded in large rural areas, these urbanites have their unique needs and voices heard. This is a map that can reflect the voices of the citizens.
Angie Kelleher
This is a good house district. it achieves a near zero political bias in the district which will allow the people to elect a representative that works for them and not their party, and it unifies two closely aligned cities that share economic, cultural, and educational ties. Please continue to improve the maps until the seat shares match the vote shares of the state (54% D / 47% R)
Michelle Mormul
It makes no sense to have St. Clair Shores in 3 districts.
Scott Stewart
Agreed with the comments here. Pontiac has way more COI with Auburn Hills, so please keep that together.
Jim Morrissey
Many people who work in Midland, live in Bay City and vice versa. Dow Chemical has a presence in both communities. And we spend our leisure time in both places. We are a community of interest.
Molly Morrissey
This map is great for a State House district because Midland and Bay City are about the same size, and they share many economic institutions both for-profit companies and non-profit services.
Craig Austin
This is a good map for the businesses of the region. Thanks for the hard work and for making sure the bias is balanced as much as possible in the state and region.
Scott Weston Rose
There is no reason to have so many county boundaries crossed by districts of this size. Please consider my map which minimized county and city cross overs and also has a very low population deviation of 1.37% max. https://districtr.org/plan/49177
Joel Rutherford
Ugh, why are so many of these maps just slicing up Warren and diminishing the voices of it's voters? There isn't much in common with the southern parts of this district. It only hurts voters everywhere in the district.
We need FAIR MAPS!
Audrey Lester
What happened to the Lakeshore COI map? I and many others made positive comments last week regarding that map. The lakeshore is unified naturally but when interrupted lines exist one area can allow things another doesn't. It leads to confusion and harmful inconsistencies.
Carter Welch
I wholeheartedly agree with Andrew's comment. I don't understand why this map splits very similar communities like Sawyer, Bridgman, Stevensville, and St. Joe, while combing St. Joe with a very dissimilar place like Watervliet. Lakeshore communites hold the most similarities to one another, recognize this.
Sharon Trumpy
This proposal is an improvement over maps 227, 228, 229, 232, 239 and 248. I would still like to see ALL of the city of Novi in 110. Our diverse city's voice should not be disempowered.
Marian MAhoney
Please do not split up the city of Novi. We have a growing Asian American community and our northern precincts are quite diverse. By splitting up our community into separate districts, these voices are diluted.
elizabeth mae beaudoin
Please keep all of Novi's precincts in the 110. We need to ensure the voices or our AAPI community members are not watered down. This is much better, but please keep working on it to get all of Novi in the same district!
David Neubauer
Rutledge Township should be included with City of Hastings, we are one community and should not be split up.
Mary O'Neill
As a collector of VNP signatures for fair maps. This one has the lowest efficiency gap which is what we want.
Joe Fresard
Keep Harper woods with the Grosse Pointes, as so so many have requested they be considered as a COI
Joe Fresard
Don't ignore your mandate to incorporate COI's (above most other considerations) and maintaining municipal boundaries
Josh Vermaas
This is the least worst of the options so far. Efficiency gap isn't great, but it has one of the smaller biases overall in the state house composition.
Atasi Bagchi
Please continue to keep all of Novi together for all maps.
Rick Catherman
This HD map doesn't look like any of the other HD maps of the Commission. As proposed, these HD in SW MI would break-up the much needed lakeshore community of interest, and does not recognize the diversity of populations (African American, Hispanic.) Please consider all other HD maps, before this one.
Richard Olrich
Brighton area should not be in a district with any portion of Ann Arbor, as well as associated Livingston Townships. These areas have nothing in common with Ann Arbor.
Michael Hoadley
The way that Gladwin, Clare, and Lake (#59,#94) counties are divided gives the appearance of an agenda or no regard. Most rural counties and municipalities share interest as well as resources. Would make more sense to try to keep lines at county lines where possible and it surely appears that the sliver of Lake could be exchanged for the sliver of Clare counties to have #94 more sensible and by removing that sliver of Clare would exchange it for the southern sliver of Gladwin County to include in #59 to again keep it complete. Keeping the process simple and sensible will save it from controversy and future headaches or need to start from scratch again in another 10 years.
Merlin Steffes
If one studies the representative districts in Kent County, one will notice that the 75th, 76th, 78th, and 86th lean democrat while the 79th, 96th, and 98th lean republican. That is 4 to 3 advantage for the democrats in a county that leans republican. Democrat leaning municipal boundaries must be carved out to achieve this gerrymandering.
Jennifer Austin
I like this Midland/Bay City House district. These are two cities who have always been closely aligned, we are similar sized cities and have similar concerns, and it creates a competitive district where the candidate has to work for the voters, not their party or extreme base. Please continue to work to make these maps as close to zero political bias as possible. This district helps to do that.
Andrew Graeber
This map splits up the lakeshore communities that have common cultures and economies. Residents often drive up and down the coast for work, shopping, and leisure resulting in the entire coast feeling like our community. Meanwhile rural residents in the east of the County choose to live there to get away from the busyness of the coast towns. The governance needed for maintaining the growing coast cities often seems like unnecessary oversteps for inland rural residents, and the hands off approach the inland residents like tends to leave the coast cities out to dry. These are conflicting needs that don’t need to be forced together, and each could be properly addressed with a different map.
Gretta Van Bree
Please consider mapping to include a lakeshore district. Thank you
Tom
There is no reason to separate a portion of Waterford from the rest of the community. Keep Waterford united!
John
The Waterford community should not divided. Pontiac should not be separated from their COIs of Auburn Hills and Bloomfield. This map divides too many communities. The House districts are supposed to be the most local part of our representation, yet you divide them all up. Keep communities intact.
Janice M Sovak
I like that Ann Arbor is split into multiple districts. It supports the partisan fairness goal by spreading Dem votes across districts (i.e, don't pack them all into one district).
Merlin Steffes
You need to respect municipal boundaries. Examples, Grand Rapids is split three ways and Ann Arbor is split 4 ways. Throw this map out. Redraw with minimization of splitting up municipalities.
Lisa
Why slice a neighborhood out of Waterford unnecessarily and then have to slice up a neighboring township to make up the difference? KEEP WATERFORD UNITED!
Jack Ellis
This late in the process and there are still significant flaws in this district as proposed
Split up the city?
Community of interest.?
As I will keep saying, KEEP working!
Heidi Schaetzl
The greater Lansing region should be broken up into 5 districts that are Dem majority. This will help make your maps more fair. You need to make the maps fair on a partisan basis. Your maps for our region are not fair.
Marie Colombo
As a resident of Royal Oak, I do NOT support dividing the city into two districts. Please find a way to remedy this while adhering to the criteria. Thank you.
Brittany Pinnock
This map is heading in the right direction regarding Novi. This map keeps the majority of the AAPI community in one state House district. However, Novi precincts 11 and 12 need to be included with the rest of Novi in HD 110. Novi precinct 12 is a very diverse community and will be extremely marginalized and ignored in HD 45. PLEASE KEEP ALL OF NOVI TOGETHER IN HD 110.
Thomas Heck
Still splitting up Monroe County and and merging some of Monroe County with southern Wayne and Washenaw. A better proposal would be to pt the city of Taylor into district 20 and Brownstown Twp into district 22 then move the Carleton and Steiner areas from 40 to district 60
Zach Geyer
It's great to see this map being pretty fair partisanly, but dividing Ann Arbor 4 ways is a little much. Rather it would be better to split Ann Arbor 2-3 ways and get another Democratic-leaning seat in the Lansing metro and the Flint area. This will provide a very fair map without destroying so many COI's around Washtenaw and Livingston.
Marian Mahoney
I appreciate the progress, but more work needs to be done to keep Novi intact. Our northern precincts belong in the Novi district 110 !
Gayle Steele
I like the fact that this proposed 45th District includes the I-96 Corridor. Many people from Brighton City, Green Oak Township and Brighton Township travel that highway to and from work every single day. It also reflects that these communities I mentioned in Livingston County are exurban contingencies of Oakland County suburbia.
Casey Lewis
This map butchers COIs in Washtenaw County. Ann Arbor shouldn't be split 4 ways. You can make good districts by splitting it once and including Ann Arbor, Scio, and Pittsfield townships in those districts. I understand the desire to make fair maps, but you can do it without destroying communities of interest like this.
Ratna Rao
Getting closer! This looks much better for APIA but let’s go all the way and keep Novi together. Don’t orphan a few precincts please.
Katherine Dooley
Thank you for addressing the concerns voiced. District 110 does look a bit better now. We appreciate trying to keep community together and not marginalize voters in the North part of our district. Please keep working hard towards achieving balance and independence.
Sujata Raman
This proposal is much better for Novi since it keeps our community together - both our large APPI community as well as our school district. This will allow us to continue to work together towards shared goals.
elizabeth mae beaudoin
This looks much better for Novi residents. Great job! This will allow us to keep our community and school district united as we work towards our common goals.
Dan Wholihan
This is a flat out partisan gerrymander that breaks up communities of interest. Ann Arbor shouldn't be split three ways. The Brighton area should not be split. Genoa Township and Hamburg Township belong with Brighton. In addition, a Brighton State House District shouldn't go all the way to Eastern Commerce Township, nor to Waterloo, nor to Ann Arbor. Ann Arbor will control everything in these three districts, and we will have no representation whatsoever in our communities.
Merlin Steffes
Why is the city Ann arbor split into three different State Representative districts. These districts are not communities of interest. Ann Arbor has 124,000 people. A rep. district is 91,000. Ann Arbor should have 1.36 districts. You did a similar split with the City of Grand Rapids, although not as expansive. Stop the gerrymandering
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