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Recommendation to receive and file the report on the 2006 Population Balance Among the Nine Councilmanic Districts in the City of Long Beach. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
Section 103 of the Long Beach City Charter reads in part:
Commencing the second quarter of 1981 and at intervals offive (5) years, or at any other time the City Council may direct, the Planning Commission shall ascertain the number of inhabitants in each Councilmanic District and report its finding to the City Council. If the report shows that the Councilmanic Districts are not approximately equal in number of inhabitants, the City Council shall, by ordinance, redistrict the City into nine (9) Councilmanic Districts, each having approximately an equal number of inhabitants.
The Department of Planning and Building coordinates the preparation and processing of data to be used in the population estimates. To assist in this effort, a Redistricting Technical Advisory Committee composed of staff representatives from the offices of the Mayor, the City Manager, the City Clerk, the City Attorney and the Technology Services Department was established.
For a mid-decade Councilmanic District population review, such as for 2006, recent detailed U.S. Census Bureau data is not available and the data utilized instead is obtained from the County of Los Angeles Urban Research Unit. Comprehensive Planning staff began the process of estimating Council District populations in 2006, but due to the initial L.A. County estimates being unreliable and a proposed City Charter amendment that would have eliminated mid-decade redistricting, the necessary population estimates were not available until August 2007. The following estimates of population by Councilmanic District have been prepared based on the most recently available County of Los Angeles estimates by Census Tract, which reflect Long Beach's population on July 1, 2006. While the estimates from the County represent the best available data, staff does no...
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