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James Enoch
This map does not reflect how Campbell County should be represented. Campbell County is more aligned with Bedford, Lynchburg, Amherst in its shared media coverage, highways, access to shopping, school sports and community engagement, etc. It is absurd to move Campbell to another district which would hurt shared values.
James Enoch
Campbell County is fairly represented here, but more interest may be given to pairing with Bedford, Lynchburg, or Appomattox for consistency with the area and shared interests of that area compared to that of Danville.
Erin B Rice
Suffolk is a diverse city that has pockets of urban, suburban and rural. I think its appropriate to keep the communities of interest together. I think this district attempts to group the most rural parts of Suffolk with the other communities of Western Tidewater.
Bryce Leonardo
This is better than the other map that splits Great Bridge into 3 different districts. Why would in A3 you come up right next to great Bridge High School and take a significant chunk of people and put them in a different district.
Lacey R Parker
Map B3 does a better job with Staunton/Augusta/Waynesboro. These are communities that share interests and resources and should be grouped together.
Ingrid J. Mans
Radford and Virginia Tech should be kept together as Communities of Interest. B3 plan did a better job with this.
Tim Hickey
As a citizen of Albemarle County and a candidate for the House of Delegates in 2019, I oppose the treatment of Albemarle County proposed in Map 100A3 for the House of Delegates. Map 100A3 certainly appears to be a partisan gerrymander in our area that flouts the ideals of compactness and maintaining communities of interest. It attempts to keep Albemarle County splintered and dilute our voice in the political process by needlessly dividing our county into 3 sections. First, it lumps the southern & western portions into a long proposed district (HD76) that would stretch down to the southern border of Amherst County. Second, it carves out the northern part of Albemarle County & attaches it with Greene & Orange Counties into a proposed district (HD74) that would stretch all the way to the far eastern tip of Orange. Third, it stretches a Charlottesvillle District to include parts of Albemarle to the west & north (HD75). These three oddly drawn Districts will harm our ability to participate in the democratic process and further fracture our community. As a candidate for the House of Delegates in the current 59th District in 2019, my firsthand experience is that the 59th is a gross gerrymander that blatantly violates the notions of compactness and communities of interest. The proposed HD76 and HD74 in Map100A3 are certainly reminiscent of the current 59th District in this regard. Please do not do this to our community. The treatment of Albemarle County proposed in Map 102B3 is fairer, more sensible, and in keeping with the spirit of fair redistricting. Thank you.
Tim Hickey
As a citizen of Albemarle County and a candidate for the House of Delegates in 2019, I oppose the treatment of Albemarle County proposed in Map 100A3 for the House of Delegates. Map 100A3 certainly appears to be a partisan gerrymander in our area that flouts the ideals of compactness and maintaining communities of interest. It attempts to keep Albemarle County splintered and dilute our voice in the political process by needlessly dividing our county into 3 sections. First, it lumps the southern & western portions into a long proposed district (HD76) that would stretch down to the southern border of Amherst County. Second, it carves out the northern part of Albemarle County & attaches it with Greene & Orange Counties into a proposed district (HD74) that would stretch all the way to the far eastern tip of Orange. Third, it stretches a Charlottesvillle District to include parts of Albemarle to the west & north (HD75). These three oddly drawn Districts will harm our ability to participate in the democratic process and further fracture our community. As a candidate for the House of Delegates in the current 59th District in 2019, my firsthand experience is that the 59th is a gross gerrymander that blatantly violates the notions of compactness and communities of interest. The proposed HD76 and HD74 in Map100A3 are certainly reminiscent of the current 59th District in this regard. Please do not do this to our community. The treatment of Albemarle County proposed in Map 102B3 is fairer, more sensible, and in keeping with the spirit of fair redistricting. Thank you.
Erik Haug
splitting Albemarle County and connecting southern Albemarle all the way to Lynchburg does not make sense. This appears to be a significant gerrymander.
Christopher Jordan Labiosa
I was honored that Craig County was the #1 voting locality (81.7%) for the formation of the Redistricting Commission. In part, this was because Craig County is currently represented in the Virginia Senate by a Senator in Lynchburg. Though Senator Newman has done a fine job of representing our values, it is easy to see that Craig County is culturally and geographically different than Lynchburg and interested in different priorities. It is my assessment that Craig County should be in a Roanoke-based House of Delegate's district to maintain our community of interest. I was disappointed to see that Craig County has been drawn into a district weighted overwhelmingly in Montgomery. Though Craig County shares a small border and a backroad with Montgomery, we do not share much else. Craig County is in the Roanoke Metropolitan Region with a Roanoke-centric population base. A vast majority of our workforce travels to Roanoke County every day for employment utilizing Craig County's primary road, Rt 311, for travel. Rt. 311 is also a road maintained out of the Roanoke-based VDOT Salem residency. Craig County has just one small grocery store and most households rely on Salem/Roanoke as the closest source of broader options and prices. The largest industry in Craig County, a sand mining plant, relies on roads in the Catawba Valley to reach the Roanoke Cement Co. If you dial 911 in Craig County and need transportation to a hospital, the odds are more than 85% in favor of you being transported to a Roanoke-based hospital. Craig County law enforcement is trained at Cardinal Justice Academy in Salem and our allotment of State Troopers serves out of the Area 40 Office (Roanoke and Craig Counties). Our namesake, Robert Craig, was a Roanoke-based delegate. To remove Craig County from a Roanoke-based district would ignore substantial precedent in the fact that Craig County has never been paired within a district which does not include Roanoke County or Botetourt. Removing Craig County's Roanoke-based representation in the House of Delegates serves only to detach our interests from representation in Richmond. Craig County should be in a Roanoke-based House of Delegates district and not a district 94.2% weighted in the New River Valley.
Teresa B Culver
It is very disappointing to continue to break up Albemarle County into three different districts. Our population size doesn't justify that. We have been gerrymandered for far too long. Worst of all those of us who live just south of the city are in a long linear district that stretches all the way to and includes Lynchburg. These are not 'communities' and guarantees lumping dramatically different communities together guaranteeing the poor representation of a large population within the district 76 as shown The plan B map is much better and has only two divisions to our county/city.
Michael Rodemeyer
Dividing Albemarle violates the criteria of keeping communities of interest together and keeping political boundaries intact. As the Democratic consultant map shows, there's no reason to divide up Albemarle and continue the present pattern of partisan gerrymandering. The Democratic proposal is far superior to keeping a community together.
Erin Corbett
Please keep Albemarle County together! Charlottesville and Albemarle county should stay as one.
Ellen Osborne
Stop trying to divide Albemarle county. The common interests, work, and shared resources of those in Albemarle County are more closely aligned with Charlottesville than with Lynchburg. Albemarle is a community of interest with Charlottesville City and the rest of the county, not Lynchburg.
Jennifer Beam
Why can't these just be square, nice 90 degree corners for the whole dang map. What are we trying to do? This isn't rocket science...
William Pace
This version of the House District map separates the communities (precincts) of Twin Springs and Mount Cross, which are suburbs of Danville, from Danville when almost everyone living in these communities work and/or commute to Danville. Twin Springs and Mount Cross should not be in a House district that is predominately Henry County. Please move Twin Springs and Mount Cross in the House District that contains Danville. Perhaps take out Altavista in Campbell County and put Twin Springs and Mount Cross in this House District to reach the 5% deviation.
Mallory Washington
District 50 is not contiguous. It would need to take the part of District 51 with Virginia Beach Blvd + Great Neck Rd intersection to make it compliant with VA code.
Caroline Melton
The A3 House map splits Albemarle County into two halves, which makes absolutely no sense. The people living in Albemarle County are a clear community of interest and do not share the same concerns of those living all the way in Lynchburg. Albemarle residents deserve to have a representative who understands their interests and needs. They do not deserve to be gerrymandered into a district where their votes will be intentionally diluted.
Irene Leech
Overall, this looks pretty good. It seems to mostly keep counties together, a whole lot more than prior maps did. I can't get quite enough detail to completely verify that things are as they look, but from what I can see, it's an improvement overall.
Catherine Barnes
I understood the legal and governance purpose of an independent redistricting process was to more reasonably align contiguous communities that share practical, institutional, economic and cultural ties so that we can be represented together in policymaking on the issues that affect us. Staunton, Augusta and Waynesboro are the 'SAW region' with strong interlocking concerns and should not be divided.
Jennifer Beard
Why is Albemarle County split into multiple pieces? Charlottesville and the surrounding Albemarle County should all be in the same district.
Alexander Deucher
Albemarle county is a single community. I see no reason to split it in half. Albemarle county has more in common with itself than with communities north or south of it. This is blatant partisan gerrymandering.
ANGUS CARTER
To separate Staunton from Waynesboro is ludacrious! The two cities have similar concerns, cultural and economic ties and are linked geographically. Instead this lumps Staunton in with Craigsville and Deerfield and Waynesboro with Elkton and Rawley Springs which neither city shares any economic or cultural ties and entirely separate geographic regions. It makes no sense unless it is an attempt to dilute the voting power of the two cities in which case it should be shut down on that basis alone! This area's redesign is ridiculous and should be redrawn immediately.
Judy Le
The A3 Statewide map does a disservice to the residents of Albemarle County by splitting us up between two districts. The county is a single community whose interests and needs often stand in contrast to those of its bordering counties in terms of education (k-12 and higher) and infrastructure. We need to be represented by one delegate for our cohesive community.
Joe Calhoun
This map splits Albemarle County, a clear community of interest, into two house districts one of which stretches all the way to and including Lynchburg. Southern Albemarle County is in no way in a community of interest with Lynchburg. This is clear gerrymandering ("cracking") and should be dismissed.
Richard Christian Heiens
Culpeper and Orange have been in the same House District for well over 100 years. Having lived here for most of my life, I can say that our counties are very closely aligned, and have far more in common than we do with Rappahannock, let alone Page. Looking at the new population numbers, it would be possible to draw a single House district with the entirety of Culpeper and all of Orange minus the westernmost precinct along the border with Greene and Albermarle. This would make far more sense than drawing a district that crosses the Blue Ridge Mountains and contains a county that, while bordering Culpeper, has far more in common with North-Central Virginia (especially Warrenton and Fauquier County) than it does Culpeper and Orange.
Fern G Campbell
I totally agree with Ben Cullop's comments that this A3 Statewide map largely misses its target by breaking Albemarle County into two Districts. There is NO need for separate representation in our county- we need a map that accurately reflects the needs of the residents of Albemarle county as we have a common interest across the county. It is very interesting that the authors of this map leaves larger more populous counties, largely intact.
Laura Helferstay
The division of Albemarle County between districts 74 and 76 does not make sense and will not best serve the community's needs. This creates two sprawling districts that share little in common. I have lived in both the counties surrounding Lynchburg and Albemarle, and it would be extraordinarily difficult for a single delegate to represent these areas. Albemarle County functions as a single community of interest with shared resources, goals, and interests. This needs to be represented by one delegate in Richmond who can represent us and our needs.
Ben Cullop
The Virginia A3 Statewide HOD map appears thoughtful in parts, but largely misses its target by cracking Albemarle County into two Districts (74 and 76). In other parts of the map, the author leaves larger, more populous counties largely in tact. Here, the author takes a county that thinks of itself as one community and divides it in two. There is no need for separate representation in Richmond - the entire county should be represented by a single person who can understand the commonality of interest across the entire county. I encourage the Commission to redraw this map in a way that more accurately reflects the needs of the residents of Albemarle County.
Jonathon Wright
Plan B3 does a much better job of keeping the current college towns COI in current HD-12 together.
Randall Wolf
This new district in place of district 20 divides Waynesboro and Staunton that have many common interests and goals. As well as common organizations. It also seems to create an even more Republican district. .
Jennifer Williams
This division of Albemarle County is not effective. The common interests, work, and shared resources of those in Albemarle County are more closely aligned with Charlottesville than with Lynchburg.
Chris Bryan
This proposed map splits greater Downtown Suffolk (or Central Suffolk) between two delegate districts. Greater Downtown Suffolk is one community of interest, with shared interests including shared public facilities and amenities, shopping and industry. As a matter of fact, many residents of the central downtown borough would be split between these two districts.
Mary McIntyre
It doesn't make any sense to break off a chunk- nearly half of Albemarle County and attach us to any other district. Those of us in the county around Charlottesville are 100% a community of interest with the city and with each other. It is an ecosystem driven by the uniqueness of both proximity and distance. Our Albemarle governments, school systems, businesses, and infrastructure needs are vastly different than the rural counties surrounding us. By breaking Albemarle in half, you would be trying to fit a square peg into a round hole- and we have already suffered from this because of the previous maps. Our children are in the same school attendance zones with our Albemarle neighbors, we share voting precincts, and County Supervisors with our neighbors- all of that gets sliced up by this map. Albemarle County needs to be represented as a package, like it is (mostly) in the B3 map.
Kathryn Laughon
This map presents clear gerrymandering, needlessly splitting much of the population of Albemarle County into two large districts. This does not represent a "community of interest" and would be difficult for a single representative to meaningfully serve because of its size. The B3 house district map does a much better job of creating compact districts for Charlottesville and the surrounding area.
Kathryn Laughon
This map presents clear gerrymandering, lumping much of the population of Albemarle in a large district that extends to Lynchburg. This does not represent a "community of interest" and would be difficult for a single representative to meaningfully serve because of its size. The B3 house district map does a much better job of creating compact districts for Charlottesville and the surrounding area.
Giselle Caruso
Re: District 1. I am submitting a plan (PDF) I drew using MyDistricting through the VRC website. It is an alternative plan for Alexandria that includes 12,097 people from Arlington County rather than from Fairfax County. As I have commented before, I am concerned that a delegate who represents Alexandria along with a few precincts in Fairfax County will have to spend a disproportionate amount of time on Fairfax County issues because of Fairfax County’s size and the complexity of the issues the County is facing.
Kat Maybury
The splitting and submerging of Albemarle County into two large districts (74 and 76) on this map is a clear attempt to dilute/gerrymander our Bluer County with more rural areas that we have little in common with. This is something we are used to. **But we absolutely expect this process to fix.** The B3 map does a much better job. Albemarle County is cohesive in terms of our interests, concerns, and where we tend to work. Our representation should absolutely reflect that. This map would continue, and possibly even exacerbate, the confusion we have when people who have the same representative on our County Board of Supervisors, and send our kids to the same schools and the same parks to play, have different delegates in Richmond. And neither of those delegates may represent or care about our interests at all. Please chose the B3 version over this obviously bad faith version. Thanks.
Kat Maybury
The splitting and submerging of Albemarle County into two large districts (74 and 76) on this map seems like a clear attempt to dilute/gerrymander our County with more rural areas that we have little in common with. This is something we are used to---but we expect this process to fix! The B3 map does a much better job. Albemarle County is cohesive in terms of our interests, concerns, where we tend to work and play. Our representation should absolutely reflect that. This map would continue, and possibly even exacerbate, the confusion we have when people who have the same representative on the County Board of Supervisors, and send their kids to the same schools, have different delegates in Richmond. And neither of those delegates may represent or care about our interests at all. Please chose the B3 version over this obvious bad faith version. Thanks.
Kat Maybury
The splitting and submerging of Albemarle County into two large districts (74 and 76) on this map seems like a clear attempt to dilute/gerrymander our mostly-Blue County with more rural areas that we have little in common with. This is something we are used to---but we expect this process to fix! The B3 map does a much better job. Albemarle County is cohesive in terms of our interests, concerns, where we tend to work and play. Our representation should absolutely reflect that. This map would continue, and possibly even exacerbate, the confusion we have when people who have the same representative on the County Board of Supervisors, and send their kids to the same schools, have different delegates in Richmond. And neither of those delegates may represent or care about our interests at all. Please chose the B3 version over this obvious bad faith version. Thanks.
Kat Maybury
The splitting and submerging of Albemarle County into two large districts (74 and 76) on this map seems like a clear attempt to dilute/gerrymander our mostly-Blue County with more rural areas that we have little in common with. This is something we are used to---but we expect this process to fix! The B3 map does a much better job. Albemarle County is cohesive in terms of our interests, concerns, where we tend to work and play. Our representation should absolutely reflect that. This map would continue, and possibly even exacerbate, the confusion we have when people who have the same representative on the County Board of Supervisors, and send their kids to the same schools, have different delegates in Richmond. And neither of those delegates may represent or care about our interests at all. Please chose the B3 version over this obvious bad faith version. Thanks.
Teresa Culver
This map is disappointing in that Albemarle County and Charlottesville are still split into three different districts. Our population is not so high to require that. Worst that the I64 is used as a dividing line. Voters like me who live just a few miles south of Charlottesville (nearly 100% of whom work and shop in Charlottesville) are grouped into a long linear district that extends all the way to, and includes, the City of Lynchburg. Lynchburg and Charlottesville are not part of a community, and worse have dramatically different subcultures. Waynesboro has much more of a tie to Charlottesville but is split. This organization guarantees that one of the two major population centers in the district will not be well served. A poor effort which seems to mostly help retain the gerrymandering that we have suffered from for too long.
Teresa B Culver
This map is disappointing in that Albemarle County and Charlottesville are still split into three different districts. Our population is not so high to require that. Worst that the I64 is used as a dividing line. Voters like me who live just a few miles south of Charlottesville (nearly 100% of whom work and shop in Charlottesville) are grouped into a long linear district that extends all the way to, and includes, the City of Lynchburg. Lynchburg and Charlottesville are not part of a community, and worse have dramatically different subcultures. Waynesboro has much more of a tie to Charlottesville but is split. This organization guarantees that one of the two major population centers in the district will not be well served. A poor effort which seems to mostly help retain the gerrymandering that we have suffered from for too long.
Teresa B Culver
This map is very disappointing. I address Albemarle County and district 76 where I live. Albemarle and the City of Charlottesville are still split into three different districts. We have endured gerrymandering for quite some time and you can do better. This map uses I64 in part as a dividing line as if we can't and don't cross that division. Those of us who live a few miles south of Charlottesville proper are put into a district that extends all the way south and includes the city of Lynchburg. The outskirts of Charlottesville and Lynchburg are not only not part of the 'same community,' they have dramatically different subcultures and both communities would benefit from an alternative division. Waynesboro at least has far more ties as a community hub to Charlottesville than does Lynchburg. Very disappointing 'effort.'
Corinne Cayce
I would like to request that Albemarle County be included as part of one district. One purpose of creating districts is to be sure that citizens voices are heard and represented fairly, by breaking communities into different districts our voices become diluted and it more difficult to our representative to accurately advocate for us. This version of the map that divides Albemarle County needs to be rejected.
Frances Larkins
Version #100 includes my community and the city of Fredericksburg as House District #34 but needs to extend further north from Route 17 to at least Truslow Rd. so Celebrate by Del Webb and the Falls Run retirement communities aren't in two different districts. While we would like to be included with the city of Fredericksburg, at least House District 33 in Version#102 keeps southern Stafford County together more compactly with no carveouts along Route 17.
Donna Price
While the District covering the City of Charlottesville is understandable; the part that divides the rest of Albemarle County into two other districts is clearly an effort to diminish the value of the Albemarle County voters by putting Albemarle County voters - residents of a rapidly urbanizing County; in with residents of still rural Counties. Our needs are very different.
Darryl Lowery
Can someone please tell me what the areas Stoney point south of the river, The museum district and Laurel have in common?
Carol Thompson-Nelson
The 9/18 A3 map labeled HOD32 concerns me as the parent of a disabled person, since the County of Orange is no longer part of the district with Culpeper Co. All disability and elderly services for this area have been organized to service the 5 counties of Fauquier, Culpeper, Rapp., Madison and Orange. The few resources we have are shared. Orange Co. has been a significant contributor. In addition, as a historian, Culpeper and Orange counties have been on the same rail line for nearly 200 years, and these two counties, including Madison have long been a "community" of many collaborative interests.
Christopher Jackson
Extracted from § 24.2-304.04. Standards and criteria for congressional and state legislative districts. Germane criteria follow…language has been edited for purpose of brevity, but intent and meaning remains intact. 5. Districts shall be drawn to preserve communities of interest. For purposes of this subdivision, a "community of interest" means a neighborhood or any geographically defined group of people living in an area who share similar social, cultural, and economic interests… 6. Districts shall be composed of contiguous territory...and political boundaries may be considered. 7. Districts shall be composed of compact territory… And finally, 8. A map of districts shall not, when considered on a statewide basis, unduly favor or disfavor any political party. By these criteria, A3 Statewide HOD fails. Apropos to Albemarle County, division of the County between proposed districts 74 and 76 violates the intent of 5, 6, and 7 – with the drafters’ goal (albeit unstated), of violating 8 – diluting the representation of Albemarle County voters for the benefit of a specific political party. I urge rejection of A3 Statewide HOD as a shameless attempt to perpetuate the manipulation of the redistricting process.
Ryan Jackson
The partitioning of Albemarle county into districts 74 and 76 is nonsense. It's one community that deserves to be represented together and not, say, divided in a transparent attempt to ensure a particular political party can gain additional seats.
Allison Hager Jackson
As a hospice chaplain, I have worked with patients throughout the proposed district 76 and know many families who live in this area well. People who live in central Albemarle county and people who live just north of Lynchburg have very different concerns and needs from their representatives in state government. I am concerned that not only will citizens who live and work in the vicinity of Charlottesville be ill served by this map, but my patients who live in more rural communities will find their voices diluted and drowned out by this map. Map B3 is a much more rational way of connecting communities with similar interests in this part of central Virginia.
Patrick Jackson
The division of Albemarle county between districts 74 and 76 dilutes the ability of our community to advocate for our interests in Richmond. There is no reason to prevent neighbors whose children attend the same school district from being represented together, except for a transparent attempt to seek partisan advantage. Albemarle has similar interests throughout the county - many of us share workplaces and use the same services - that have nothing to do with the furthest extent of these districts in the outskirts of Fredericksburg and Lynchburg.
David Singerman
The design of Districts 74 and 76 on the A3 map slices Albemarle County in half in a way that needlessly divides a community of over 110,000 people. On one hand, Albemarle residents who can literally step over a creek into Charlottesville are lumped in with Lynchburg as District 76. On the other hand, their neighbors--other parents at their same elementary school!--have been bundled into District 74, which stretches to the outskirts of Fredericksburg. Albemarle's voters have been pawns in shameless gerrymandering for a decade, and they deserve better this time. By contrast, the B3 map keeps intact the Albemarle community, who are bound together by real ties: schools, parks, workplaces, and local government.
RN
This 76th district, running from the james river through the 29 corridor, all the way to C'Ville suburbs makes no sense, with the Lynchburg district taking away one singular precinct for that seat. It wouldn't be right to split Madison Heights apart like this with one district encompassing Lynchburg and the other in the same voting/legislative district as C'Ville...