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18 January 2022
Initial upcoming Richmond City Council - Richmond
Decennial Voter District Redistricting meetings
Richmond,
Virginia – Initial upcoming Richmond
City Council - Richmond Decennial Voter District Redistricting process meetings
for public involvement, awareness, and input will include the following:
·
Thursday, January 20, 2022;
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Council Redistricting Information and Engagement Meeting
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Phone Conference ID: 642 481 49#
·
Friday, January 21, 2022;
Noon-2:00 p.m.
Council Redistricting Information and Engagement Meeting
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mobile app
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Or call in (audio only) +1
804-316-9457,,64248149# United States, Richmond
Phone Conference ID: 642 481 49#
Additional public Council Redistricting process
meetings and scheduling will be forthcoming.
Richmond residents are solicited, invited, and encouraged to
participate and be engaged and involved in Council public outreach meetings and
to share their comments, thoughts, and/or ideas regarding the 2021/2022 Richmond Decennial Voter District
Redistricting process and any proposed plan or plans. The Richmond
Voter Districts are to be reapportioned in 2022.
Richmonders
interested in the process
Richmonders interested in the process are encouraged, invited, and requested to please take the
opportunity to contact the
Richmond City Council member that represents them (https://www.rva.gov/richmond-city-council/council-contacts) for more information and/or to share
their thoughts and ideas regarding redistricting.
Find Your Richmond Voter District
Richmond residents not sure who their individual
Councilmember representing them is, can use the following helpful portal, if
needed, to assist in identifying their individual Richmond Voter District:
·
Richmond Real
Estate Property Search Database https://apps.richmondgov.com/applications/propertysearch/Search.aspx
(note: once you’ve entered your address, use the Govt. tab to
identify your Voter Districts)
Richmond City
Council Redistricting information webpage portal
Richmond residents interested in the
redistricting process are also invited and encouraged to visit and check back
on the Richmond
City Council Redistricting information webpage portal (https://www.rva.gov/richmond-city-council/redistricting) for updated information during the 2021/2022 Richmond Decennial
Voter District Redistricting process.
Additional information will be posted on the Council redistricting
information portal as it becomes available.
About Redistricting
Every 10 years
(Decennially), following the release of the decennial census by the U.S. Bureau
of the Census, voter districts across the nation are updated (reapportioned and
redistricted) to reflect population shifts and changes in over that time in
order to provide equality of representation on behalf of voting residents when
participating in general, primary, and/or special governmental elections.
How
Richmond Voter Districts are used
To operate our local government services, our city
is divided into nine geographic/demographic Richmond Voter Districts. We, as
Richmond residents, use these to elect individual local members of Richmond
City Council, Richmond Public Schools Board of Trustees, and a Mayor (who must
earn the most votes in five of the nine Richmond Voter Districts).
Richmond Redistricting
State law requires Richmond City Council to reapportion/redistrict the
nine local Richmond Voter Districts boundaries every 10 year based on U.S.
Census data. This is known as the Richmond Decennial Voter District
Redistricting process. The updated Richmond Voter Districts are to be
established in 2022.
Public input is actively solicited, requested, encouraged, and invited
Richmond City Council also solicits, encourages, invites, and requests
interested Richmond residents, in accordance with Virginia law, to offer,
submit, suggest, and share public comments, including (but not limited to)
data, questions, alternate plans, suggestions, etc., via the following helpful
ways:
a.
Mail: Richmond City Council/Richmond
Decennial Voter District Redistricting
Richmond
City Hall; 900 E. Broad Street, Suite 305; Richmond, Virginia 23219
b.
Fax: 804.646.5468
c.
Email at: Contact
Richmond Decennial Voter District
Redistricting information portal via email, at redistricting@rva.gov.
Richmond Analysis of the 2020 U.S.
Census Data
Total 2020 Population: 226,610
According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census -
2020 U.S. Census numbers released in late 2020, Richmond’s population increased 11 percent
over the past 10 years and now sits at 226,610. This increase is significant and represents the largest in the last 40
years. With nine local Richmond Voter Districts, this means that “ideal”
Districts would have about 25,179 persons living in them to make them evenly distributed. Deviations around 5% percent are
generally acceptable.
Three Richmond Voter Districts with
substantial changes
According to the 2020 U.S. Census, Richmond has three voter districts
whose numbers are outside a five percent deviation of what represents an
“ideal” number of about 25,179 persons living in them (which is the total
population divided by nine Richmond Voter Districts). These include the
Richmond North Central 2nd Voter District (+2,019 more residents) with a
deviation of 8.02%; the Richmond Northside 3rd Voter District (-2,943 less
residents) with a deviation of -11.69%; and, the Gateway 6th Voter District
(1,752 more residents) with a deviation of 6.96%.
Richmond
City Council continues to be committed to ensuring the 2021/2022 Richmond
Decennial Voter District Redistricting process and plan are clearly defined,
transparent, inclusive, and equitable and are driven by and responsive to providing
opportunity for public engagement, involvement, inclusion, discussion,
awareness, feedback, deliberation, comment, and input on behalf of Richmond
residents.
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Richmond City Council - Richmond City
Hall - 900 East Broad Street, Suite 305 - Richmond, Virginia 23219 U.S.A. - 804.646.2778 (tel) - 804.646.5468
(fax) - www.richmondgov.com/citycouncil
