CA: S.F.'s recent redistricting drama might lead a 2024 ballot measure. Here's why
San Francisco voters might be asked next year to overhaul the way the city draws boundaries to create districts that elect the Board of Supervisors.
The city doesn’t have to reevaluate the boundaries of its supervisor districts until after the 2030 census. But efforts are already underway to reform San Francisco’s line-drawing process, known as redistricting, through a potential 2024 ballot measure.
It’s partly a reaction to the remarkable chaos of the city’s redistricting last year, when the once-in-a-decade process of adjusting supervisor districts to account for population changes was consumed by a political maelstrom. Some critics of last year’s events hope a ballot measure can improve future redistricting efforts by shaking up how the group that draws the district boundaries is selected. Other possible changes include providing stipends to the group and requiring the map be approved by a supermajority.
Redistricting can have long-lasting consequences: The district boundaries influence who is elected to the Board of Supervisors, therefore helping determine whether the body leans progressive or moderate.
Supervisor Myrna Melgar told The Chronicle she is working on a charter amendment that she will propose sending to voters next year, likely in the November election. Melgar said she’s been getting input from a group of city elections commissioners who have been studying ways to improve redistricting since last year.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/election-redistricting-ballot-measure-18299875.php
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