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Yorba Linda council adopts resolution opposing Proposition 50 on November ballot
Summary
The council unanimously approved a resolution opposing Proposition 50, criticizing a mid‑decade redistricting measure and defending the 2010 citizen-redistricting model and local boundaries.
The Yorba Linda City Council voted unanimously to adopt a resolution opposing Proposition 50, a statewide ballot measure scheduled for November that would alter the state’s redistricting process.
Council members who sponsored the resolution said the measure would undercut the independent, voter-approved redistricting commission established in 2010 and risk returning partisan line-drawing to elected officials. Council member Peggy Wong framed the measure as a top-down change that would erode local representation and create the kind of gerrymandered boundaries the independent commission was designed to prevent.
“Proposition 50 is completely destroying that and putting it back in politicians’ hands,” Wong said. Council member Tara Campbell said the proposed mid‑decade changes could split Yorba Linda into different congressional districts that do not reflect local communities of interest.
A member of the public who addressed the council called the proposal a "colossal waste of money" and urged citizens to oppose it, citing the cost of a special election. The sponsors said their resolution defends the 2010 voter-approved approach and urges residents to vote no on Proposition 50.
Council members made a motion to adopt the prepared resolution; the motion passed unanimously. The resolution will be part of the council record and sent as an official local position opposing the ballot measure.
