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Gilroy council narrows redistricting to two draft maps, invites public review

3194169 · May 6, 2025
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Summary

At a May 5 hearing, the Gilroy City Council advanced two draft maps for its transition to district elections — draft map D (with JHO5 overlay) and a modified map F — asking the public to review them before the council votes on a final map and sequencing at a subsequent meeting.

The Gilroy City Council on May 5 moved two draft maps forward in its redistricting process and asked residents to focus comments on those options ahead of the next hearing.

Council members said the goal of the night was to narrow the large set of public submissions so the community could concentrate its feedback. After staff walked the council through five draft maps and several public submissions, councilmembers coalesced around two choices: draft map D (noted in materials with the JHO5 overlay) and a modified version of a public submission the council referred to during the meeting as map F.

The council’s demographer, in a…

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