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Residents urge keeping neighborhoods together, question feasibility of standalone rural trustee areas
Summary
At the trustee-area hearing, residents and trustees urged map lines that keep both sides of streets and neighborhood communities intact and queried whether Alexander Valley or Westside could be standalone trustee areas given population constraints.
Residents and trustees raised practical concerns about how census blocks and street boundaries will shape trustee-area maps. One trustee asked that, where possible, both sides of a street be kept in the same trustee area so small neighborhood communities are not split; another expressed concern about giving rural areas (Alexander Valley, Westside, Dry Creek) standalone trustee areas that might not have the population to form an effective, representative district.
Jonathan Salt responded that census block boundaries constrain mapmaking and that Alexander Valley and Westside combined amount to roughly 1,500 people—well below the ~3,200 target per trustee area—so those communities will likely need to be tied into population centers in town to meet legal balancing requirements. He also noted maps are drawn from current census data and are typically stable until the next census (2031), though small adjustments can account for imminent developments within the allowable 10% deviation.
