Urban and rural communities have vastly different needs and lifestyles. This map does not give a voice to either.

This map is a poor choice, why would I be lumped with a very rural area and Tooele that has nothing to do with my area? This divides Salt Lake County up and is nearly as bad as the current map.

IF you're going to use the Jordan River to divide boundaries, you should be consistent. I think I-15 would be a better divider.

I do not support this Map. It looks too similar to the current-gerrymandered map.

Gerrymandered rubbish. Urban areas should not be included with rural. Hey republicans, only LOSERS have to cheat to win.

No. Why is the committee trying to unfairly represent the people they are supposed to be representing? Use a map that accurately reflects all the people who live in Utah. Don't manipulate the maps to get votes.

Yet another gerrymandered map. Rural voters are paired with urban voters. They have differing needs and each needs their own representation.

o Does not adhere to the standards laid out in Proposition 4 and therefore does not follow the ruling of Judge Gibson o Makes unnecessary county splits in Salt Lake and Utah Counties o Is not compact and does not consider communities of interest o Specifically including SLC with Southeast Utah is clearly not a community of interest. o Including parts of SL County with Tooele County also fails on its face to keep communities of interest together. o When the guidelines from Prop 4 are properly implemented a district would fit entirely in Salt Lake County and a second district would fit mostly into Utah county. This map fails to be compact.

We the people of Utah voted for Proposition 4. We expect these maps to be drawn by an independent redistricting commission, which STILL has not happened! This map (among others) flagrantly and brazenly gerrymanders away. This map should not even be a consideration.

I strongly oppose Option A. It fractures Holladay, Millcreek, and other urban communities, pairing us with distant rural areas that have entirely different needs. This map ignores natural boundaries, undermines Proposition 4, and prioritizes partisan advantage over fair representation. Utahns deserve districts that reflect real communities—not maps drawn for political gain.

This map does not accomplish the objectives of Prop 4. Communities are divided and lumped in with far-flung communities that have little in common with their needs and issues. Having rural-urban splits in a district makes it difficult for everyone within to be represented equally and fairly.

Not a good option.

Salt Lake County keeps getting divided into 4 sections. Why?

Stop carving up our densest urban area. The people there have different needs than people in rural areas.

Map A fails to meet the requirements of Prop 4. In particular, its use of districts that combine rural and urban areas does not preserve neighborhoods and communities of interest, so neither area can be fairly represented.

This map splits Salt Lake City artificially in what appears to be another gerrymander. This map should be rejected.

This is a terrible option. It splits towns and counties and you end up with a mess for the Congressional representatives. How can we ask someone to listen to the needs of rural, urban, suburban, wilderness and balance them? I think the neighborhoods and communities of interest should be groups because it keeps people who share the same legislative goals together. This map just makes sure that rural Utahns get ignored.

I like that we are kept in the same district as our neighbors in this one, I don't like that Salt Lake County is split east/west with some carveouts. We are much more alike if we have a north/south split. Again, I understand the desire to have rural and urban/suburban representation but at whose expense? We both deserve to have someone represent our interests and not compete with each other for a voice.

This map splits Salt Lake City from other cities in the County. The whole valley/County should be together to allow for fair representation. I don't feel that this map adheres to the objectives of Prop 4 so it should not be considered.

This map does not reflect political balance or keep communities whole. It sharply divides urban areas, featuring absurd, sprawling shapes that do not follow natural features or facilitate easy travel through the districts without leaving them. It does not give equal voice to urban and rural areas. It directly opposes what Utah voters asked for in Prop 4. I object!!!

Again with the large districts that I feel dilute my interests. More focused districts with similar populations would be a better choice.

Map A does not meet the requirements of Prop 4 and will not provide fair representation to Utahns. It does not use compact districts and does not preserve communities of interest – it splits urban areas, and also combines urban areas with rural areas, which does not allow adequate representation for either urban or rural communities.

It looks to me like most of the redistricting options do not follow the Prop 4 guidelines already established. The plan that is most likely to follow this is the Escamilla/ Owens map and thus would have my support. Keeping the counties whole allows fair district distribution and representation.

I do not support Map A because it fails to meet the fairness standards Utah voters demanded when we passed Proposition 4. As a resident of Sandy, I feel my community is being deliberately divided and diluted under this proposal. This map splits Salt Lake County and surrounding metro areas in ways that fracture neighborhoods, separate communities of interest, and combine dense suburban populations with far-flung rural regions that have very different priorities. That design weakens my voice and the voices of thousands of voters like me, making it nearly impossible for us to elect representatives who understand and reflect our local needs. Map A also scores poorly on key fairness measures like compactness and competitiveness, and it continues the long-standing practice of gerrymandering Utah’s congressional districts to guarantee one-party dominance. It does not reflect the intent of Proposition 4 or the principle that voters should choose their representatives — not the other way around. I urge the Legislature to reject Map A and instead adopt a map that keeps communities like Sandy together, strengthens fair representation, and creates at least one competitive district that accurately reflects Utah’s diverse population.

I'm writing this because I can't imagine how my legislature would even consider this map. It splits my county and my neighbors and we already feel like our voices are not heard. It is made to be partisan and to keep that party in power. Hear our voices! Don't approve this map.

This map only makes sense from the perspective of a partisan aim. Voters in Salt Lake deserve meaningful representation. For instance, what cultural, geographic, or community boundaries is sprawling district 3 in this map adhering to? This map does not accomplish what Utah voters approved in Prop 4.

Redistricting should create districts that reflect the nature and common interests of the counties within them—urban or rural—as much as possible. To achieve this, Salt Lake County must be divided north/south. Forming two districts out of the densely urban Wasatch Front—one with the older northern SL County cities and adjacent southern Davis County cities and another with the newer/growing southern SL County cities with adjacent northern Utah County cities—creates two compact districts of counties with shared interests. This allows the creation of two more rural districts where rural/less urban counties can be grouped according to region and shared tourism/national parks/recreation, tribal, and farming and/or extraction industries interests. With its east/west split of SL County, Map A does not serve the interests of either SL County or the counties in District 3. The public does not support this map—virtually all public comments dots for this map across all counties are red/negative.

No loving how this map cuts SL City in half. It is better than C and D, but still falls short of providing fair representation to residents in more urban areas.

This map chops the state up into illogical parts. While Utah County remains intact, politically it is more in line with its northern neighbors. Southern Utah has very different needs than northern Utah, even Utah county. Salt Lake areas are not fairly divided.

I strongly dislike how this map divides Salt Lake City. By grouping rural and urban communities together, neither of the unique needs present in these locations will be met. Please honor the will of Utah voters who demanded independent redistricting reform. Please honor Proposition 4.

Not loving how this divides up SLC. Others have clearly said this. I really want balance and a commitment to the integrity of our elections because I want Utah to lead out in showing the nation that we care about drawing congressional maps to promote competitive elections and honest discourse. I really want to see Utah catch the vision of fairness and lead the way in establishing elections that truly represent communities and the people. Please take this into account as you're considering how to move forward. I want to be really proud of my state for choosing to trust that truly representative elections are the way to build trust in the government and keep us together as a people. Further, I think you could inspire more civic engagement by choosing routes that value a higher diversity of voices. I really believe we can chart the way forward for the country by choosing a route that inspires those who hear about it.

Map A does not meet the requirements of Prop 4 and will not provide fair representation to Utahns. It does not use compact districts and does not preserve communities of interest – it splits urban areas, and also combines urban areas with rural areas, which does not allow adequate representation for either urban or rural communities.

similar to B. this is blatant gerrymandering

This is another gerrymandered map that breaks up communities. Do not vote for this map.

Splitting Salt Lake County east-west like this very clearly violates Prop 4. It's a blatant attempt to favor the Republican party.

This map is another poor option. It once again dilutes rural and urban voices by lumping them in with each other. I know legislators like to claim that doing this promotes "working for the entire state," but let's be honest, those legislators never leave SLC to see what is even happening in the rural areas of their districts. Rural and urban votes have different interests, stop lumping us in with each other.

I do not like this map. It dilutes rural voices and splits up communities.

Dislike. Gerrymandering. Do not vote for this one.

Prop 4 was passed by the voters. Why do you disregard the wishes of the voters? You work hard and are informed on many issues; nonetheless, follow our wishes. We want competitive elections and not ones that defy the will of the voters, unnaturally divides cities and and counties into multiple districts, and lumps together constituents who should not be lumped together. I am Republican, and I find the collective behavior of the Utah Legislature to be insulting. I don't feel represented. My town is split across four US Congressional districts. Enough is enough. Stop acting like a spoiled two year old; put on your big boy/girl pants and do the right thing.

This map divides me from my immediate neighbors in Millcreek and Holladay, places where my friends live and where I attend church. It doesn't make sense to me, and I don't feel represented by a map that cuts apart the community where I live and groups pieces of it with large swaths of the state that have different needs and interests in representation.

This splits up communities- especially mine- and does not meet the guidelines of prop 4

I do not like this one. There is no balance in the representation.

I like the one that keeps most of salt lake city and salt lake county together. it feels fairer because people in those areas share similar needs and ideas. when the city is split into different rural districts, it feels disconnected and harder for everyone to be represented. I think the boundaries should be fair so everyone's vote matters, I prefer the map that keeps similar communities together

Why would Salt Lake county voters have the same interests as the voters in the largely rural areas in eastern Utah or the little populated areas of the western desert. This map divides Salt Lake county and dilutes their issues as well as those who live in rural areas.

This map creates too many unnecessary divisions across cities and communities. The Escamilla map is better.

This map violates the requirement of Prop 4 that the map not “unduly favor or disfavor . . . any political party.” Prop 4 requires that the Legislature evaluate maps using the best available methods, “including measures of partisan symmetry.” A standard and well-accepted method of partisan symmetry is the efficiency gap. When this map was uploaded to PlanScore, it calculated an efficiency gap of 20.3% (favoring Republicans). Generally, maps with an efficiency gap above 7 or 8% are considered to be unduly biased in favor of a party (i.e., considered partisan outliers). This map has the second highest efficiency gap of any of the officially proposed maps. (Map A: 20.3% in favor of Republicans; Map B: 19.6% in favor of Republicans; Map C: 22.9% in favor of Republicans; Map D: 19.0% in favor of Republicans; Map E: 17.0% in favor of Republicans; Escamilla/Owens Map: 3.5% in favor of Republicans.) That is, it is the second most partisan-biased of Options A/B/C/D/E, which are all unduly partisan (well above any acceptable efficiency gap threshold). Because this map violates Prop 4’s requirements, it should be disqualified from consideration. Any attempt by the legislature to dilute Prop 4’s requirement that the map not by unduly biased by amending the statute’s language (yet again) to cherry-pick standards for partisan bias that give the legislature essentially a free-pass to do whatever it wants would fly in the face of the people’s expressed intent and the Utah Supreme Court’s decisions.

This map Option A is not a good choice as it needlessly splits neighborhoods and communities of interest, creates disjointed proposed districts with little contiguous representation across the areas it carves out, and does not address regional and economic similarities amongst the citizens it would cover. Map Option C is the least preferrable option, and Map Option A is the second least preferred - please vote 'NO' on both.

Communities, counties and cities should be kept together as much as possible according to Prop 4. This map does not do that.

Please do not split up salt lake county! I do not have things in common with people clear down on South Eastern Utah! Please keep local communities together!

This map creates more unnecessary divisions with its boundaries and does not honor the intent by Prop 4. It would be better to go with the Escamilla map.

I dislike this map. We already had the bipartisan commission draw maps and should be using those maps.

This map unfairly represents the constituents of Utah

Strong dislike of making a pizza out of a single county--or, in this case, a city. Neighbors should be in the same congressional district, both because they likely have more similar needs than communities on the other side of the district. I appreciate the limitation of spreading the population evenly, which is going to necessitate cutting the urban areas into different congressional areas. I also appreciate that this is an improvement over the current map. However, this map doesn't appear to be a fair map for Utahns in urban and rural areas. I understand our lawmakers are committed to mixing rural and urban communities in an effort to serve all Utahns best, but the needs often differ significantly. In addition, isn't that the job of our senators, to consider the state's needs as a whole, whereas a congressional representative is supposed to focus on the needs of a given district?

Does this map meet Prop 4 criteria to guard against partisan gerrymandering? It does not appear to meet the standards set forth.

This map does not meet the redistricting guidelines. It splits up communities of interest along the Wasatch Front. It also dilutes the voice of rural voters by making them a minority in all of the districts.

I do not think that this map fairly represents rural voters.

SL County is large enough to hold its own district. One district should exist within the county. All your maps have SL County and the surrounding areas split between the 4 districts. So, I request that you reject all these maps and propose a map in true conformance with Proposition 4! Also please reject, Senator Brammer's proposed legislation. It is just a thinly veiled attempt to eliminate Prop 4 - which the citizens of Utah approved!

The carving up of communities in southern Salt Lake County and northern Utah County is awkward and violates Prop 4. Additionally, Provo/Orem/Lindon is far more similar to Lehi (and Draper for that matter) than St. George.

Option A is a very poor choice for following the guidelines set in place by Prop 4. It arbitrarily splits up the Wasatch Front, the most densely populated portion of the state, into different districts with large swaths of rural areas.

This map is disorganized and divides many communities as well as citizens interests.

This map is still gerrymandered and does not comply with the requirements outlined in Prop 4. I do NOT support this map. Please use the maps created by the independent commission.

splitting up high density areas does not allow accurate representation. Urban areas have different needs than rural needs and districting should reflect that. I do not support this map

This map does a poor job of meeting the requirements of Prop 4. It continues to split the urban community of SLC into 3 separate districts, thereby robbing its residents of fair and equal representation. It does not keep like-minded communities together.

This map does not reflect the majority of the population in one district like it legally is required to. This map is illegal and gerrymandered and Utahns have voted against gerrymandering. I want my representatives to uphold the law and listen to the people. This does not uphold the requirements of proposition 4.

This map only ranks low for competitiveness. It clearly is biased toward one party, which is antithetical to the fair, focused, functional map required by Prop 4.

This is a terrible map. A house two doors down is in a different district, and the rest of my district runs down to the southeast corner of the state.

This map does not conform to the principles of Utah law as required by Proposition 4. Specifically, it does not keep cities whole (SLC), it does not keep counties whole (Salt Lake), and it does not preserve neighborhoods and communities. As a Salt Lake City resident, I want to be able to vote with people who share the same community ties as I do. Furthermore, this appears to be skewed to benefit Republicans and the partisan bias of this map should disqualify it from consideration.

I do not understand how this map achieves anything other than gerrymandering that we have with our current maps. This map needs to be removed from consideration.

This drawing is disgusting! Blocks away from my home in SLC is attached to other regions throughout the state with no common background. The people of Utah want and need proper Representation.

Splits up Salt Lake City from some surrounding cities.

This map is horrible. I walk 300 feet to the south, cross 114th, and it’s a different district? Definitely cuts right through the middle of my community.

This map does not follow the law set forth in Prop 4. There are sprawling, irregularly shaped districts and unnecessary splitting of cities. Given the populations in SLC and UT counties it is understandable that those will need to be split but not the cities. This map is too similar to one declared illegela.

This doesn't look much different than what we currently have. It looks like it cuts up the urban areas and lumps them into more rural areas. Both have very different needs and concerns.

The maps proposed by the Committee/Legislature need to score higher on competitiveness and proportionality. Utah is no longer a one party State and the districts should represent that.

I do not feel that my interests are at all similar to those in Moab or the east desert, I should be lumped in with the urban area of SLC.

I do not like this map. It is just odd and separates me from people that I consider to be part of my community

Option A does not meet the requirements set forth by the court and does not follow the requirements of Proposition 4 that was voted on by the citizens of Utah. It splits up districts and continues to create gerrymandered districts. Do what you were asked to do and simply put party politics aside and do the RIGHT thing. Thank you.

Please keep salt lake city and the surrounding communities together.

This map strangely carves out parts of Salt Lake County centered on my street! The way the lines are drawn do not abide by natural territory, and it splits Salt Lake County. Weird that the people who I consider my community are split evenly across District 2 and 3... it feels like gerrymandering and not in the spirit of prop four! I hate thi smap.

While I like that this map tries to follow county boundaries for the most part, the clear exception is salt lake county. It clearly divides the densely populated salt lake county and merges it with rural regions. Rural areas are distinctly different in their interests and need separate representation. It also dilutes the representation to salt lake county. The boundary dividing Salt Lake County does not make logical sense.

Dislike: Fewer splits and decent proportionality, but with very low competitiveness this still protects incumbents - not fair enough.

Do not vote for this map. Subdividing major metropolitan areas such as Salt Lake City is the very definition of "cracking," a sure sign of gerrymandering. This map violates the rules set out in Prop 4.

I have lived in Utah my whole life. I own two properties in Salt Lake County. This map is not a fair representation of my community. It won't allow for representation that knows the specific needs of my area. This is a jerrymandered map that will not allow for unbiased voting. My vote matters. My voice matters. I need representatives that represent me. Do NOT vote for this map.

Map A continues to split the Democratic-leaning Counties and Larger Cities into each of the four congressional districts. This deliberate cracking prevents all but the Republicans from forming a majority in any district. We have seen first hand - If one party's victory is virtually guaranteed, extreme policy outcomes prevail; elected officials become less accountable to the electorate and abuse of power corrupts the democratic process by prioritizing political interests over fair representation. Who will buy your housing when the Great Salt Lake blows away?

Maps continues to split the Democratic-leaning Counties and Larger Cities into each of the four congressional districts. This deliberate cracking prevents all but the Republicans from forming a majority in any district it also splits my personal community, church, and family members.

Splitting up Salt Lake Country is blatantly partisan, and does not represent that community. Does not meet requirements of Prop 4

This is a strange divide of the Wasatch Front. It is not a fair representation of urban and rural priorities.

I do not think that breaking up Salt Lake City into two districts is fair or representative. The Escamilla/Owens map more fairly follows the established guidelines and keeps Salt Lake City and county more intact, which allows for more fair representation.

Oppose this map. It does not meet the requirements of Prop 4.

I do NOT support this map as it splits urban voices and priorities into separate districts. The splitting of Salt Lake County diminishes the voice of both urban and rural votes in favor of dominant party politics. I strongly prefer the Escamilla/ Owens Map.

I believe the rural part of the state have unique needs that the urban parts of the state do not. Our districts should represent the community they serve and that is impossible if they are trying to serve everyone. I do not think this map represents our communities as needed.

This map won't work with fairly representing the concerns and needs of the communities within each district. As a Herriman resident, my interests and goals are more aligned with the rest of Salt Lake County and the northern parts of Utah County than they are with Tooele and Wendover. This map does not allow us to make effective decisions as a community.

Salt Lake County communities including SLC School District and Granite School Distric should be kept together. These communities have common interests. This map divides communities unnecessarily

My community is not supported by this map. It is broken up and combined with other voters who have different priorities. I want my community to be represented as a whole. And I want that for others also.

This map does not integrate prop 4 standards.

This map does not follow the requirements of Prop 4. Districts 2 and 3 split the the most urban parts of the state in Salt Lake County and group them with rural regions with much different representation needs. I don't support this map.

Strongly oppose. Unfairly splits salt lake county and eliminates opportunity/competition for proportional representation.

This is splitting SLC county more than is necessary and appears to be gerrymandered. This map does not comply with proposition 4.

This map is okay, with limited jurisdictional splits, but it's not very competitive. Additionally, this splits Salt Lake County and melds us with more rural counties that have different needs and interests.

I do not like the urban/rural mix in this map. I have lived in both rural Cache Valley and in urban Millcreek. Farmlands have different issues vs. cities. I believe each should have representation that concentrates on them and their issues. Having a representive for both urban and rural areas leaves both at a disadvantage. I prefer other maps.

I do not support this map. It dilutes rural votes with urban votes.

I do not support this map. It does not follow the requirements of Prop 4, with Districts 2 and 3 splitting the the most urban parts of the state in Salt Lake County and grouping those areas with large rural regions with much different values and needs from their Congressional representation.

This maps breaks Salt Lake County into pie pieces and other weirdly shaped puzzle pieces. The urban areas and rural areas need to be intact as districts to assure that their interests are addressed. This map is not in line with Prop 4

This map splits up SLC in a very uncompetitive manner. This map does not meet the Prop 4 requirement.

This option does not consider Prop 4 guidelines

Does not meet prop 4 standards, the way districts 2 and 3 are split looks very gerrymandered...which is exactly what Utah voters are telling you we don't want.

I like the Escamilla/Owens map. While not perfect, it does a much better job of distinctly representing our urban and rural areas. This allows for representation that can better use their limited attention and time on understanding the lifestyle and needs of their constituents. Prop 4 original maps could have been utilized as the judge did not disqualify them.

Splitting Lindon and American Fork from Pleasant Grove and cutting through Utah County is another unfortunate county split. This split is particularly problematic since it is in service of a pinwheel-shaped district division. Our communities, counties, and population groupings are not pinwheel-shaped. Provo has a lot more in common with American Fork than with Panguitch. The divisions are even worse in Salt Lake County. Why put some SLC suburbs with rural southern utah, some with rural eastern Utah, and some with rural northern and western Utah?

What is with the goofy border jutting into West Valley City? I would cross borders between districts 3 times on my way into work with this map. District 3 is especially bad; how is a representative supposed to effectively represent both urban Sal Lake County and rural Castle Dale? This map is another take on the bad existing map, changed just enough to hope we won't notice.

This map doesn't make sense. Why is Salt Lake City split up in the way shown on this map?

I oppose this map.

This map does not follow Prop 4 and it's an unfair attempt to thwart fair voting. It's better than map C, but still needs to keep urban/rural areas separate.

This splits Millcreek again. I don't understand how Millcreek should be separate from Sugarhouse when we share the same Utah Senator. Clearly, on the state level, we are saying they are the same community (District 13) so why doesn't that translate to the congressional map here?

This carve out makes the district not contiguous. It does not miminize divisions across multiple districts.

This map does not follow Prop 4 guidelines and does not provide a fair and equal opportunity for communities and individuals to have their vote equally represented in the state of Utah. I oppose this option. The Owens map is the fairest map for Utah.

This map is unfair for the entire state. It places rural communities in the same district as more populous ones, meaning that there can't possibly be good and whole representation across the district. Additionally, it splits Salt Lake County into bits, meaning that the area is broken up unfairly.

This map fails rural voters. These boundaries would inevitably encourage our elected representatives to listen to the needs of the population-dense areas and ignore the needs of constituents outside those areas.

This map continues to gerrymander our voting rights and representation. It splits Salt Lake City into multiple districts. The only fair map proposed is the Escamilla MAP.

Salt Lake County should be left complete. This map splits the city I live in, Taylorsville, from the city I work in, Salt Lake City, and it splits me off from my neighbors and friends in Murray and Holladay where my kids went to school and where we do business. This map is another deliberate attempt from Republicans to further silence Democrats and split up communities in urban areas to lump them in with rural areas so as to water down any influence they have in elections. I am tired of my vote not mattering in Utah.

This map doesn't follow prop 4. Communities divided and stretched across very different regions. This map undermines community representation.

This map divides SLC and Salt Lake County, splitting my communities of like interest. My community of interest is SLC, University of Utah, East Bench, Millcreek, Olympus, Sugarhouse, Canyon Rim, Holladay, Sandy, Murray and nearby areas. I spend most of my days in these areas.

Option A is the worst map of the bunch and is so bad it doesn't even begin to align with the criteria set forth by Proposition 4. Option A in no way meets those criteria. Option D, while not perfect, most closely aligns with the requirements of Prop 4.

I don’t support this map because it’s clearly gerrymandered. The districts are drawn in strange, irregular shapes that don’t follow natural or community boundaries. It’s obvious the goal was to give one party an advantage rather than to create fair and competitive districts. A fair map should accurately represent communities, not manipulate them for political gain.

I seriously dislike all 5 of the committee-proposed maps, splitting SL Co so much. PLEASE propose a map that represents the voice of the people in Prop 4!!

I don't like this map and here's why: 1. If the goal is to remove gerrymandering, then why is the legislative committee so gung-ho on making even the SL county district so uncompetitive? 2. The legislative committee keeps saying it wants to keep communities of interest together, yet it keeps mixing urban, suburban, and rural areas together; each has different concerns, strengths, problems, and needs. 3. The committee touts the fact that the percentage of registered Democratic voters only number in the teens; they ignore the fact the Democratic candidates routinely capture 35-40% of the vote statewide. It’s not the percentage of voters that counts, it’s HOW they vote. 4. And finally, there are many ways to test for partisan bias, each test with its strengths, weaknesses, and appropriateness. The best way to test for bias is to use multiple tests that are appropriate to the situation. The ONE test the legislative committee uses is the least appropriate test for Utah.

This map really chops up urban centers and is not in line with the dictates of Prop 4.

If you wanted to split urban communities you did a great job. This map is garbage.

Salt Lake County has the largest number of voters in Utah out of any county, and it should have one district from it that is compact and undiluted by other counties. That would preserve conditions 1-7 for most of the county, which has the highest concentration of voters of any place in the state. The current districts that have both Salt Lake City and rural parts of Utah in every district have resulted in urban parts of our state being ignored by their representatives.

What in the world does the east bench of the Salt Lake Valley where I live have in common with the needs of those in Kamas? This map clearly will not meet the needs of either rural or urban communities. Any map that splits Salt Lake County is inherently making it impossible for either community to thrive.

When I look at a map like this, this must be a joke. This map is not keeping with proposition 4. This map is all cap.

I accidentally submitted my comments on the wrong map. Please disregard my previous comment on this map. Thank you.

This map fails to keep Salt Lake County, the most populous county in our state with 34% of the entire state’s population as a single community of interest. This map goes against allowing a single group to choose its own representative. This map fails to meet the requirements mandated by court order. The power of the citizenry is diluted with any division of this county. Stop splitting this single most diverse community of interest.

Terrible population splits. The urban center of the state has been turned into pizza slices. How can this possibly be an accurate representation of the people in each district? Urban and rural communities have different concerns and should have representatives that reflect that.

Horrible gerrymandered map - I'm in favor of maps that don't split the urban Wasatch front into pieces of rural districts.

Combining metro with rural in every district leads to representation that doesn't effectively address the needs of either population (and is obviously done to water down liberals in SLC).

This map is pretty awful. The way it splits Salt Lake County, especially southern Salt Lake county like Draper/Bluffdale area in half on the east and west seems very unfair. It breaks up these communities and wouldn't fairly represent voter interests.

I don’t like this map because it follows city boundaries. I know that is a standard of prop four, but my neighborhood crosses three cities. My ward crosses two cities. The people I interact with everyday don’t care about city boundaries. It’s an antiquated way of thinking about communities of interest. But this map is so much worse than the other maps that divide up my neighborhood because it maintains a way for my representative to skirt having to do any type of town hall in my area because the district is so large and includes so much rural area that I worry they will never step foot in SLC and just escape to the far reaches to check the box of doing civic engagement without actually venturing into the population center.

This map still breaks my community up and goes against the guidelines listed in Prop 4.

This does not follow the guidelines of Prop 4. Please review the instructions.

I am opposed to this map. It as with the others proposed by the legislature it splits Salt Lake County right through my neighborhood with people very close to me being in a different district. I understand Salt Lake County cannot stay entirely intact, but it seems it could be done in a way that keeps close communities together better. It also, puts urban and rural communities together which I feel does not give effective representation to either.

I live in South Salt Lake and excluding me from Salt Lake City makes no sense at all

This map fails to keep Salt Lake County, the most populous county in our state with 34% of the entire state’s population as a single community of interest. This map goes against allowing a single group to choose its own representative. This map fails to meet the requirements mandated by court order. The power of the citizenry is diluted with any division of this county. Stop splitting this single most diverse community of interest.

I do not support Committee Option A. This map continues the troubling pattern of splitting Salt Lake County and combining suburban areas like Sandy with distant rural regions. These divisions dilute the voices of communities with shared interests and violate the intent of Proposition 4, which calls for preserving communities of interest and minimizing county splits. While Option A may appear more compact than some alternatives, it still fails to deliver fair, non-partisan representation. Compared to the Escamilla-Owens map and Option D, Option A does less to honor Utah’s redistricting principles and voter expectations. I urge the committee to reject this proposal.

The proposed maps, A through D, fracture counties along the Wasatch Front and Back with a web of unnecessary lines, undermining the very communities they are meant to represent. This piecemeal approach to redistricting dilutes the collective voice of citizens and stands in direct opposition to the will of the people, who clearly endorsed fairer, community-focused maps through Proposition 4. For the sake of genuine representation, I strongly urge the committee to set these flawed proposals aside and adopt the coherent, minimally-split boundaries crafted by the independent redistricting commission.

Maps A, B, C and D are unacceptable; there are too many lines that split up counties, notably counties along the Wasatch Front and Back (Salt Lake, Summit, Utah, etc). Chopping up counties and communities defeats the purpose of representation in Congress. Please go back to the maps created by the independent redistricting commission. They have minimal splits within counties and communities. Utah voters spoke: use the independently drawn boundaries as detailed in Proposition 4 of 2018.

This map has the same problems as current districts, and does not conform to the principles of prop 4.

This one is so weird. It looks like a jigsaw puzzle. I live in Orem, but put my comment hear because it shows the really weird lines that don't make any sense. I have no idea why you would cut out this one neighborhood to stick in a different district.

This map splits up many areas with interests in common, including the desert south, which is now drawn to include part of the wasatch front. However, the most egregious districting is the continuing division of Salt Lake City, so that people there will not be represented. Many citizens believe that the economic power house of Utah is not our enemy, and the people who pay taxes that support our rural clinics, for instance, should be represented in government. No taxation without representation.

This map does not conform to the principles of Utah law as per proposition 4. It appears to be purposefully splitting up urban areas when I should be able to vote with people within my communitee

This map is unnecessarily splitting up Salt Lake City and its surrounding areas.

As a lifelong Utah, I am concerned with the Option A map. The Option A map dilutes my voice as a voter by blending the Salt Lake Valley’s urban core with rural areas that I don’t have much in common with. This map appears to intentionally dilute more Democratic leaning communities of interest with other Utah communities who have very different concerns. The proposed maps should include at least one district that keeps approximately 817,904 voters from the urban core of Salt Lake County together.

This map doesn't make any sense. Why split up the Salt Lake valley, which would logically have the most common needs? Why does one part of the valley include the border of western Utah while the other part of the valley includes the eastern border?

This map is trying to slice up Davis, Weber, and Salt Lake County. The counties should be whole to represent the areas. This is not a fair map because the map will mix rural and urban voters. In Utah, rural and urban voters don't have the same needs, and both deserve fair representation according to those needs. Please do not adopt this map.

Let’s do better; this map is wrong

This is not a good map because of how it cuts up northern Utah County.

Keep salt lake county together more! This seems like partisan gerrymandering

This map seems to still wind it's way around SL Co. It splits SLC proper from the east bench. A north/south split may make more sense and keep communities of interest together?

Maps A, B, C, and D are unacceptable; there are too many lines that split up counties, notably counties along the Wasatch Front and Back (Salt Lake, Summit, Utah, etc.). Chopping up counties and communities defeats the purpose of representation in Congress. Please go back to the maps created by the independent redistricting commission. They have minimal splits within counties and communities. Utah voters spoke: use the independently drawn boundaries as detailed in Proposition 4 of 2018.

Most of our state's population lives in a relatively small concentrated area. This map cuts up that area all over the place like a jigsaw puzzle piece. This will not allow the people of Utah's voices to be heard.

This map is not as competitive or as proportional as another option (Option B).

This map fails Proposition 4 requirements by splitting cities and counties unnecessarily. It splits up communities like West Valley and isn't representative of voters.

This map cuts the Salt Lake County and pairs it with rural areas that have vastly different needs. This is a blatant power grab and does not follow the provisions outlined in Prop 4.

This arrangement fails to reflect fair representation for our area. Our community has little in common with eastern and southern Utah, which are primarily rural and face very different circumstances. As an urban region, our needs and interests align closely with the broader Salt Lake Valley, making any division from the metropolitan area both impractical and unjustified.

This configuration does not adequately represent our region. Our community differs significantly from eastern and southern Utah, as we are part of a predominantly urban area with distinct needs and priorities compared to those rural regions. Dividing us from the metropolitan Salt Lake Valley undermines fair and appropriate representation.

This map does not follow the requirements of Proposition 4. While it maintains equal populations, it does not do a great job keeping cities and counties whole. Not even close. Especially in the Salt Lake and Utah County areas. The district lines in Utah County go right through Pleasant Grove City and divides this close community. We would live in a different district than our neighbors! This does not preserve neighborhoods and communities of interest. Plus, there are lots of random sections carved out in American Fork for some reason and that will greatly divide this community as well.

All of North Salt Lake/Davis County can be in District 1 and still remain within population tolerance - no need to split

This map unnaturally divides cities and counties for both Salt Lake County and Utah County. I live in Pleasant Grove and our neighborhoods are divided up. I would cross district lines so many times a day just going about routine errands in my community and my neighbors and I would have different representatives even though we live within blocks of each other. This is madness.

This map splits Salt Lake County and combines half with western rural Utah and the other half with eastern rural Utah. It does not keep communities in Salt Lake County together at all, and is unfair to both urban and rural areas.

Option A does not meet the requirements set forth by the court and does not follow the requirements of Proposition 4 that was voted on by the citizens of Utah. It splits up districts and continues to create gerrymandered districts. Do what you were asked to do and simply put party politics aside and do the RIGHT thing.

The primary requirement in Prop 4 is maintaining equally sized districts while minimizing city and county splits. While it's true that Salt Lake County needs to be split, this could be done without splitting, or "cracking", communities. I live in Millcreek, two blocks from the district boundary. Splitting my community silences my voice and makes representation in Utah less effective. This "cracking" was my main concern with the current district map, and that concern is not solved with this option.

why would salt lake be delegated to the same views as rural utah. and why would their views be diluted by urban folks?

This map is biased. So frustrating that none of your maps are following Prop 4. It is obvious you do not care about the 50% of voters that voted for a bipartisan group to create the maps. Rural and urban areas should not be in the same district, they have completely different needs. I do not want a rural person representing me, and rural people do not want an urban dweller representing them.

Again, splitting up Salt Lake County and Utah County does not make sense in this way. Rural areas should be lumped together on their own, and Urban areas should be more compact. They each should be getting their own representatives without overshowdowing each other.

This does not align with representation in our area. We share little in common with eastern and southern Utah. Our area is an urban area with different needs than the rural and southern areas of Utah. Breaking us up from the metropolitan Salt Lake valley is not appropriate.

This map does not align with the Prop 4. It divides neighborhoods across Salt Lake City separating communities. It ultimately does not fairly represent the Utah voters because it does not group neighborhoods with common concerns and interests. Having these districts represent rural, urban, and suburban voters does not provide equal representation of the voters.

This map does not meet the requirements of Proposition 4, and as such would be a waste of time to select, likely resulting in judicial intervention and wasted taxpayer dollars. This map fails to adequetely create representation for rural communities. Combining rural and urban populations dilutes the interests of both and your rural consitutents are tired of it. There are much better options which protect each community's right to equal representation.

This map cuts up the state of Utah and Salt Lake County like a pizza. While it cuts up some municipalities, it ignores communities of interest, in particular urban versus rural. The rural urban divide is more important in Utah that Republican versus Democrat. If voters want someone who represents both rural and urban interests, they can call their U.S. Senators. Congressional districts are supposed to be compact and include a community of interest. My interest in urban transportation, traffic congestion, and air pollution (especially that from the Great Salt Lake), are different from someone in Vernal, St. George, or Moab. My community of interest is with Salt Lake City (one street away), Holiday (12 blocks away), and Sandy (10 miles away) where I travel. Finally, any “political bias” test should be ignored. Such a test, directed primarily at states close to 50/50 party divides with “political packing” and not “cracking” problems like Utah, was described in an article published at the end of November 2018 (the earliest), long after Proposition 4 was drafted and after it was adopted by the voters. If the legislature and courts believe in original intent, “political symmetry” means what it did in early 2018 when Prop 4 gained enough signatures.

Another blatant gerrymandered map that invalidates my vote. Another carve out of your tax base which contains the highest population, industry and voters who do not support the Legislature agenda. This is what we voted against!

I do not like that this map breaks Salt Lake County up into more than one district. It doesn't really make sense for a representative to represent the most populous city in the state and many rural areas because the interests of the constituents are likely not the same.

This map is unfair to Salt Lake county, divides our communities and dilutes our votes. Members who drew these maps claim that they want to combine urban and rural voters, but that actually doesn’t serve either group. We have different needs and interests. It only serves to reduce representation.

This map does not conform to the principles of Utah law as per Proposition 4. Specifically, it does not keep cities whole (SLC), it does not keep counties whole (Salt Lake), and it does not preserve neighborhoods and communities. As a Salt Lake City resident, I want to be able to vote with people who share the same community ties as I do.

This map awkwardly divides up Salt Lake County. It doesn't makes sense to have districts include suburban areas and geographically distant rural areas.

I am in South Salt Lake and cut off from the neighborhoods around me. I don't see how I can be effectively represented when my district includes urban, suburban, and rural areas. My priorities will be most similar to others in the Salt Lake area, so I'd like to see a district specific to that.

Splits up the Salt Lake valley in seemingly random ways, divides communities and constituents with similar needs.

This map, creates a pin wheel in Utah's biggest population center. this map does not align with the requirements of Prop 4.

My least favorite of the maps. I don't love this map. It cuts through the county of SLC and separates neighborhoods and communities.

Urban areas have totally different needs than rural areas.  Rural areas have 20% of the population but this map gives them 100% of the representation while the urban areas have 80% of the population and 0 representation.  The only thing this map accomplishes is total gerrymandering.  The Escamilla/Owens map is the only map that represents the state’s population.

Weird carve outs in SLC for this one (e.g. Brickyard)

I am really frustrated by the clear legislative goal of being able to choose their own voters. ALL of these maps are deliberately non-competitive. And the TRUTH about uncompetitive elections is that they become competitions WITHIN the parties, inescabably scewing extremist, rather than pulling EVERYONE to the center.

I strongly oppose Utah Legislative Redistricting Map A because it is gerrymandered and divisive, undermining the values shared by our community. This map would again ensure voters like myself would NOT receive fair representation. Even with four representatives in the U.S. House, urban voters are not currently represented. Drawing boundaries designed to silence the majority violates the principles upon which our country was founded. If Governor Cox is urging us to "disagree better," at least you could listen to the will of the people in Utah and honor the requirements of Proposition 4.

This is a violation of Proposition 4. It splits communities and neighborhoods interests up and much of the cities in Salt Lake Valley. Poorly drawn map that is not much improvement for representation for rural or urban communities.

This map splits salt lake county down the middle, and makes absurd groupings of communities-- why put mill creek (which shares a border and many similaries to SLC) in the a different district from salt lake, and instead put it with Park City and southern Utah?

another horrible map that dilutes representation of urban SL county voters. It is not in compliance with Prop 4, and attempts the same ugly gerrymandering that our current illegal map has. I OPPOSE this map.

The Wasatch should be held intact, so the common interests of our urban population can be represented. I don't appreciate that so much of Salt Lake County is split up with huge swaths of rural areas.

I have significant concerns about Utah Legislative Redistricting Map A. Specifically, I find that my values and interests, which align more closely with those of Salt Lake City, are not well-represented in Map A. The division of Millcreek from Salt Lake City is particularly troubling, as it disrupts the sense of community and shared values in that region. Overall, I believe that Map A does not adequately reflect the diverse interests of our community and could lead to less effective representation.

This map continues to unnecessarily divide the people of Utah, fails to meet the requirements of Prop 4 and is disgraceful.

This map is inherently unfair, as it dilutes the voices of hundreds of thousands of Utahns.

This map tears communities apart instead of keeping them together. It divides Salt Lake and Utah counties, pairing them with rural areas where priorities differ significantly. Proposition 4 was passed to guarantee fairness, compactness, and community-centered maps, but this proposal fails on every single one of those standards. My concerns are not being heard by those who represent me, and this map would only make that worse. Utah is home to a diverse population with varied needs and perspectives, and every resident deserves fair representation. This map does not make that possible.

This is a horrible map and represents blatant gerrymandering. It is not consistent with the will of the voters. Any map that splits SL County 4 ways to dilute the voice of Salt Lake County should be immediatly thrown out.

This map arbitrarily splits Salt Lake County to diminish the voices of voters here. Voters supported Proposition 4 in order to have their voices heard and their interests represented in Washington.

I do not support maps A, B, or C. I do not believe they meet the best interests of the voters and what PROP 4 was all about.

If I were representing the districts on this map, I would be most likely to ignore urban voters concerns. Primarily, as I connect with the voters, I would spend more time on rural concerns and ignore the numerical majority of the state that dwells in an urban environment. Nine out of every ten Utahns reside in urban areas but this map divides those urban areas up so much that zero out of four districts represent urban concerns.

This is a terrible map that takes urban / suburban Salt Lake County apart and divides it up to all four of Utah's representatives. Although it can be argued that this empowers this cultural region, instead it dilutes our ability to stand up to unfair partisan party politics. Our district boundaries need to be established by recognizing regional characteristics.

This map dilutes a voting block that does not have representation in Congress, yet represents at least 30% of voters in Utah during nearly all elections

This map dilutes a voting block that does not have representation in Congress, yet represents at least 30% of voters in Utah during nearly all elections

This map does not follow the requirements of Proposition 4. It divides Salt Lake County into multiple districts in a way that stretches across very different regions and communities, which weakens compactness and undermines community representation. The map creates unnecessary splits that fail to keep communities of interest intact.

This map splits Salt Lake County to severely. I want the independent commission to draw the map. We voted to have an independent commission and it passed. This legislature has no right to pick its voters. The voters should decide who represents them

I do not support this map because it seems biased.

This map is biased and does not represent what Prop 4 mandates.

I don't think this fairly represents the population of Utah and do not support this option

Stop splitting Salt Lake City. Utah is not a monolith and while the legislature is "following" Prop 4, they're still doing it in a way that still benefits Republicans.

This option does not provide full representation in Washington, D. C. for the citizens of Utah.

This map is quite similar to the current map in that it splits Salt Lake City and links the different sections with a rural area. Urban issues and Rural issues are NOT the same and I feel that each of us need to have an elected official who really understands and fight specifically for our issues. I do not like this map because again, I feel disenfranchised as a constituent.

My priority is to create voting districts that keep Urban and Rural communities together- so that each gets the representation they deserve for their unique circumstances. I believe Map A will unfairly minimize voter voices and the specific needs in Urban areas.

My priority is to create voting districts that keep Urban and Rural communities together- so that each gets the representation they deserve for their unique circumstances. I believe this Map will unfairly minimize voter voices and the specific needs in Urban areas.

An obvious Gerrymander in favor of GOP and the formalization of non-competitive elections. This map does not achieve the intent of Prop 4 and clearly demonstrates the GOP goal of a permanent super majority. To so brazenly attempt to bypass the will of constituents shows nothing but contempt for them and in your role in our democracy. The clear hurdles to making a public comment and obfuscating the fact that these are not the original Prop 4 maps speaks volumes about the intention eliminate minority voices.

All of the map options besides the Escamilla/Owens map seem unfair to salt lake residents. They deserve to have a community say in their representation.

I am a public education teacher living in Murray and working in the West Valley area. This map is so damaging to the communities in West Valley, Taylorsville, South Salt Lake, and Millcreek. Their communities are completely divided and they need to ability to work together to improve their communities. I also feel that its unfair to divide communities like W. Jordan & S. Jordan from Draper and Sandy. I am strongly opposed this new map. Our new map should bring communities together, not divide them.

Having family in many of these counties. I can say that the needs of Utah County and Millard County residents are very different. This map would overwhelm the rural voice of the residents in many of the smaller counties considering the growth in Utah County.

I like how this map keeps Salt Lake County's west side together. I still prefer map C, however.

Not the best option.

Not my favorite map

For Map A, District 2 of contains the greatest concentration of Salt Lake County residents at 763,294. Unfortunately, the still cracks Salt Lake County more than necessary as an additional 54,610 individuals in Salt Lake County could still be included in District 2 without exceeding the population ceiling. That portion of West Valley City west of the Jordan River should be included in District 2 and not District 3 to consolidate as much of Salt Lake County together without exceeding the population limit as possible.

Very unnatural dissection of SL County. Constituencies with similar needs (e.g., urban) should be kept together and not unnaturally linked with areas with very different needs.

I just moved 5 minutes south of my previous residence. I would now be a new district despite being in the same community. I use a grocery store and park in a separate district. This map makes it easier for the same politicians to keep their seats, not represent my community and livelihood. I have a master's degree in GIS mapping and this map was not well made.

This map fails to meet the standards outlined in Proposition 4.

This map doesn't respect Utah law or the will of Utahns. This doesn't respect the unique Salt Lake City community and cynically breaks it up so we have only taxation WITHOUT representation. Only maps drawn by the independent redistricting committee are legal.

Map B is a blatant attempt to split an urban area and ignore fair representation for both the western area of Utah and Salt Lake County and I cannot support it. Maps A and C look similar, with Map C being the most grievous, and both are heavily gerrymandered and ignore the high priority requirements of keeping counties and cities whole and preserving communities of interest. Map D has strange cutouts and appears gerrymandered. Map E also has unusual cutouts but of the 5 proposed maps looks least harmful. The Escamilla/Owens map seems to be the best regarding cities, counties and communities of interest together.

I don't like this map. Once again, a non-competitive, population-diluted map. Our representatives should be responsive to their voters, not trying to pick the best dilution of urban areas that tend to favor different views.

This is unfair to the people of Salt Lake County, among others. It does not try to keep communities together or give Utahns the chance to be represented.

Map A is not fair and I cannot support it. Maps A and C are similar, with Map C being the most grievous, and both are heavily gerrymandered and ignore the high priority requirements of keeping counties and cities whole and preserving communities of interest. Map D has strange cutouts and appears gerrymandered. Map E also has unusual cutouts but of the 5 proposed maps looks least harmful. The Escamilla/Owens map seems to be the best regarding cities, counties and communities of interest together.

This is a no for me. As a resident of southern Utah, I don't think this is the best representation of our rural interests, nor do I think it is adequate for urban interests. I don't support rural/urban districts. The Escamilla Owens map is a better option and best adheres to Prop 4 guidelines.

These maps (A-D) fail to meet the standards set by Proposition 4, which was passed to ensure fair, transparent, and nonpartisan redistricting. The maps divide communities, reflect partisan bias, and lack transparency—directly contradicting the intent of Prop 4. Utah voters demanded fairness, and these maps do not deliver. Please do better!

Much like Map C, Map A seems to group urban and rural areas into the same district much more than necessary. Also, I am not a fan of how it splits West Valley City. Once again, many people cross a district boundary on an everyday commute to a city 5 minutes down the road, but can drive 5 hours to a small, rural town and still be in their home district. This map at least keeps Millcreek together but still separates it, South Salt Lake, and Murray from SLC proper. This map also opts to group SLC proper with the cities on the west side of Interstate 15, which is more than Map C can say. This map is marginally better than Map C, but that's a low bar. It's still far from the best option, even for a committee map.

I am a firm supporter of keeping Salt Lake County in one district, and this map does not do that.

An improvement; but missing the mark. The regions of St. George and Provo have vastly different interests, economies, and resources, and pressures. They should not be represented by the same member of congress.

Maps A-D are still heavily gerrymandered and clearly trying to separate out communities that have similar interests. Stop the cheating and corruption please; start being ethical. Map E is a bit closer to the intended target but still separates SL county. The Escamilla/Owens map does the best job of keeping urban together and rural together.

Absolutely not what the fair map that Utahns voted for.

I do not support this redistricting map.

This map does not align with Prop 4 and the judicial order. It splits SL County is ways that are not aligned with the voters' wishes. No.

This strange carve out between districts is absolutely ridiculous. Splitting Salt Lake county up like this does not keep towns, cities, and communities together. This arbitrary cut in Millcreek/Salt Lake City is deeply flawed. This map needs to keep Salt Lake County together. Us residents in Salt Lake County have similar needs and require a unified representation.

For Map A, District 2 contains the greatest concentration of Salt Lake County residents at 763,294 but is still cracked and well below the population ceiling of 817,904. An additional 54,610 individuals in Salt Lake County could still be included in District 2 without exceeding the population ceiling. That portion of West Valley city west of the Jordan River should be included in District 2 and not District 3.

As a Saratoga Springs resident, I am not in favor of this map. As a resident of the community, we have so much in common with the cities of American Fork and Lehi and we should be grouped with these cities. This map would subsume our needs and voices into St. George and our communities needs would be ignored.

This map is not sufficient as it splits up Salt Lake County three times, which makes it so Utah's political balance is not reflected and fails to comply with Prop 4 requirements. Splitting up Utah's largest urban center tips the scale in favor of one political party over the other.

This map is too much like our current districting. Rural residents have different needs than suburbs, and urban residents. This doesn't make sense.

This is not a representative map for Utah voters. DISLIKE!

I do not like this map. While it is an improvement over the current map, which divides my neighborhood in a totally unnatural way, it seems to have as its goal the division of SLC.

This map unfairly dilutes the opinions of voters in Salt Lake by splitting the city in half and absorbing its population into two massive districts minimizing the voices of voters in the general Salt Lake metro area.

Do not support

This is a clear attempt to dilute the voices of Utahns in SLC. Splitting up urban voters like this is unacceptable

Do not support!!!!

This map still does not follow Prop 4 rules and regulations. This map is not following the voice of the Utah voters - do better!

I do not support

This map is not the worst, but it continues to break up communities with no logic. I can walk 3- 5 minutes to get out of my district, but I am also in a district with people 100s of miles away. It does not comply with Prop 4 which was voted on by Utahns and upheld through the judiciary. This map fractures communities in ways that the proposition does not support.

This map is not a fair representation of the Utah communities.

This is an unfair map and does not meet the intentions of Prop 4. Division of Salt Lake County is diluting the voice of those voters in favor of rural less populated areas of the state. Prop 4 calls for keeping communities of interest intact to avoid favoritism of a political party. This map does the opposite.

Shame on you Republicans. This illegal, rigged map doesn't respect Utah law or the will of Utahns. This doesn't respect the unique Salt Lake City community and cynically breaks it up so we have only taxation WITHOUT representation. Only maps drawn by the independent redistricting committee are legal.

Poor.

Strange division of Salt Lake County

Shame on you Republicans. This illegal map doesn't respect Utah law or the will of Utahns. This doesn't respect the unique Salt Lake City community and cynically breaks it up so we have only taxation WITHOUT representation.

This map is not a fair representation of communities.

I do not approve of this map. The splitting of Salt Lake does not make sense. Please consider the maps drawn by the independent commission. Escamilla/Owens map is much more aligned with the Prop 4 criteria. Give rural areas rural representation and urban areas urban representation.

Why are we splitting Salt Lake and the cities up into each district, diluting them as much as humanly possible? We should be able to vote for our representatives, not let the representatives pick and choose their map so they can keep their seats "safe." Make them actually work for their jobs.

This map does a pretty good job at cutting up SLCo. Based on where I live and many other like me, I am baffled and see no logic in grouping me and those in my neighborhood with people and their neighbors that are hundreds of miles away - who have completely different interests, lives, priorities etc. Federal representatives and their constituents from urban and rural communities are so much more than just geographically miles apart. Utah needs one if not two urban districts. This is what Prop 4 was and is all about. Respect the proposition in it's entirely! No 'one fairness test' only! Don't gut Prop 4!

I dislike this map because it breaks up SLC, lumping urban areas with rural areas. Most Utahns (90% according to the 2020 US Census), live in urban areas. Those urban areas should have at least one district, so that the representatives can focus on the needs of urban or rural Utahns.

This map is not ideal, but is acceptable. Regardless of party affiliation, everyone should be comfortable with districting that allows the electorate to be fairly represented.

If this map, or any of the other similarly drawn maps, are chosen over maps that better fit the prop four requirements, to, as members of the committee and public have expressed "mix interests of urban and rural comunities", than they are breaking proposition 4, as it forbids deciding on maps to unduly favor or disfavor anyone, and you are using urban and rural as a thinly veiled proxy for demographic information and biasing the decision in forbidden ways.

This map does not follow the legal criteria. It splits municipalities unnecessarily like Pleasant Grove and West Valley. The way district 3 curves around into Salt Lake County is not compact. It does not respect communities of interest. Especially in Utah County. A significant community of interest is a school district and this map carves up school districts. No matter how many of my fellow Republicans are encouraged to comment positively on this map. I don't think a judge can say that this meets the legal qualifications.

I do not think this map is fair, and it is another type of map that was ruled illegal. The same issues exist with this map as the one that has been ruled against.

I do not approve of this map. The clustering of urban and rural areas into each district is not ideal. Splitting Salt Lake County so much doesn't make sense. I have more in common with Salt Lake City residents than anyone in eastern Utah.

Map A does not comply with the spirit of the law passed by voters. Rather than comply with creating "compact districts," this map perpetuates has multiple splits of both Salt Lake and Utah Counties into many districts.

None of the 5 proposed maps fairly represent Utahns; all appear to gerrymander and damage public trust. I'm most concerned with SL area. My son and daughter-in-law live there and I frequent regularly. I'm most concerned with that area of Utah as we interact, participate and have friends in that area. If the committee insists on choosing from these options, Maps 4 and 5 are marginally less harmful--- but the people of Utah deserve truly fair maps that respect boundaries of established communities and uphold Proposition 4.

Too many city and county splits. The urban-rural alignments don't make sense. Follow Prop 4. Give us good maps. This is still gerrymandered.

This is a poorly designed map that propagates the current issues in Utah

This map has 3 city splits, and 3 county splits. That means neighbors are going to be in different districts. That's not competitive or fair.

Still carves up metro areas and gives much too weight to rural areas. This is a not a map that provides equal representation.

I strongly dislike urban/rural districts. I am lumped in with people hundreds of miles away who have completely different interests. My federal representatives continuously post about how much they love their rural constituents and meanwhile ignore or even belittle urban constituents. Utah needs at least one urban district. Since 90% of Utahns live in urban areas, there should ideally be 2 urban districts.

NO. Splits Salt Lake's urban constituency all over the place.

These Salt Lake County carve-ups, especially noticeable in West Valley City, seem deliberately designed to disenfranchise communities of color.

This map splits up the Salt Lake Valley into the other regions of Utah. It splits the county into several fragments, and I would definitely cross districts on a regular basis traveling around the valley. The political concerns of Holladay have very different from the political concerns of rural south-east Utah communities.

Reading another comment that expressed the opinion I agree with that while many of the lines follow city borders the splitting of the county is trying to achieve something else in the way it is being split. It would make more sense to keep Salt Lake proper with its southern suburbs and have a cleaner east west split.

Communities of interest should not be separated. This map separates me from places in my community that are a 3-minute drive away, places where I go every single day, and puts me in a district that extends all the way to the state's southern border. Our needs are different, our interests are different. This map divides cohesive communities while pitting urban and rural voters against each another.

There is no reason to split Utah county this way. Counties and cities should be kept whole unless absolutely necessary. The valley is also a natural border that should be used especially in the north. Alpine, Highland, Lehi, American Fork should be grouped with Orem, Lindon, Provo, Springville.

This map violates the principles of fair redistricting and Proposition 4. It slices up the Wasatch Front, diminishing urban representation by combining us with communities that do not share interests.

How does SL County have anything in common with Rural Utah and cities like Vernal?

I don't like this map due to it splitting Salt Lake County. It also violates Proposition 4 and unfairly benefits one party over the other.

This map violates the principles of fair redistricting and Proposition 4. Salt Lake County is divided to diminish our representation.

This map does not represent the interests of Southern Utah well and appears as an attempt to cut up the urban areas and tie them to rural areas that do not share similar issues.

This Map has issues. It violates rule 2 by splitting cities. it violates rule 3 by splitting counties. It violates rule 6 by clearly splitting communities that have similar interests. Salt Lake City the most democrat dense city in Utah is split 3 ways, combining parts of it with more republican areas that will dilute their vote. I am not sure on rule 7 as the lines are so jumbled in salt lake county but it seems to have some struggles following natural borders. Rule 8 I am unable to determine as the official links ( https://citygate.utleg.gov/legdistricting/utah/comment_links# ) to the house maps seem to only be available in the following files which are unusable by the average person on a home computer: CPG, DBF, PRJ, SHP, SHX. One can be understandably inclined to believe this is done on purpose to undermine the research of the average citizen. This map is flat out gerrymandering.

This map splits cities in half - totally absurd. Communities should be left whole.

Still seems to be trying to use huge swaths of rural area to dilute Urban votes.

American Fork is split from Orem but combined with Mill Creek? Mill Creek is split from Salt Lake, but combined with Herriman? Anybody who understands the dynamics of Utah communities can immediately see that these districts split communities with shared values rather than keeping them intact as intended by Prop 4. Communities with shared values should be kept together so they can be represented by someone with their values.

This map is deeply flawed and should not move forward. It repeats the same gerrymandering tactics Utah courts have already rejected, carving Salt Lake County into multiple districts and pairing urban neighborhoods with distant rural areas that share little in common. There are multiple districts within walking distance of my house. Communities like Sugar House, Millcreek, and South Salt Lake are arbitrarily split, while voters in Murray or Taylorsville are lumped with places as far away as Moab or Vernal. These choices ignore the requirements of Proposition 4—compactness, minimizing county and city splits, and keeping communities of interest intact—and instead dilute the voices of both urban and rural Utahns. Voters passed Prop 4 to stop exactly this kind of manipulation. Representation should be about keeping neighbors together, not dividing them for partisan gain. Reject this map.

This violates the maps and parameters set out in Proposition 4 which our legislature violated. Your job is to represent the people, not cling to power with everything you've got. We are a government by the people FOR the people. It is not fair to have rural areas represented with Salt Lake City because our needs and desires are vastly different and all communities end up feeling under represented.

Map A does not meet the requirement of Prop 4. It splits the districts in such a way that separates communities and such splitting weakens compactness and undermines effective community representation. It creates unnecessary divisions that do not keep communities of interest intact, resulting in a diminished voice for urban residents in Salt Lake County and rural voters alike. This map does not meet the requirements asked for by Prop 4.

I disapprove of this legislature drawn maps; the legislature should defer to the maps drawn by the independent commission as defined by Prop 4.

This map is deeply flawed and should not move forward. It repeats the same gerrymandering tactics Utah courts have already rejected, carving Salt Lake County into multiple districts and pairing urban neighborhoods with distant rural areas that share little in common. Communities like Sugar House, Millcreek, and South Salt Lake are arbitrarily split, while voters in Murray or Taylorsville are lumped with places as far away as Moab or Vernal. These choices ignore the requirements of Proposition 4—compactness, minimizing county and city splits, and keeping communities of interest intact—and instead dilute the voices of both urban and rural Utahns. Voters passed Prop 4 to stop exactly this kind of manipulation. Representation should be about keeping neighbors together, not dividing them for partisan gain. Reject this map.

Awful. Splits up similar communities to gerrymander the lines for Republicans yet again. I love how the committee is rigging the comments by soliciting feedback on their preferred map just like they are rigging the maps.

So gerrymandered it hurts. Voters pick politicians, not the other way around

This map awkwardly breaks up similar communities seemingly arbitrarily.

This map splits Salt Lake County up as the Legislature has done before. It does not meet the requirements set forth by Prop 4 or Judge Gibson. It is clearly drawn to dilute the voters to ensure Republicans retain all 4 seats in the House. It is continued gerrymandering.

This Map does not meet the fairness test as it splits the mostly urban and suburban salt lake valley among the 4 districts depriving the citizens of salt lake valley fair representation as the needs of urban and suburban folks are different from the needs of folks in more rural areas

How are my needs and representation anywhere close to the needs of someone in southeaster rural Utah? This map feels like it divides up the state to spread things thin, rather than to have representation based upon needs of the population areas. I don't like this map! Our government isn't listening to the people, they are playing every game in the book. Stop playing games and represent the will of the people.

Urban voters want to vote with their fellow neighbors, and rural voters want to vote with their fellow neighbors. A map like this makes everyone feel un-represented.

You are splitting towns that have more in common. It makes no sense to lump southern rural Utah in with more populated cities with different needs. You are diluting my vote with someone else who's needs differ from my own and lessen the good you can do for either.

This map does not meet Prop 4 requirements

My need and issues are vastly different from someone that lives in Vernal and yet we are in the same district. This helps neither of us. Do Better

This is wrong. Any map that carves up urban areas to dilute them wuth rural areas is gerrymandered by definition. This map is a sick joke.

I think the current districting is gerrymandered and unfair representation. This map is not great. I have been so UNHAPPY with utah reps and they continue to make terrible choices with terrible consequences for your constituents. Do not use this map. Stop gerrymandering and voter suppression.

My interests in urban SLC are not shared with those in the rural regions. Having a representative who feels more beholden to their rural constituents feels unrepresentative to those in urban areas.

The numbers looked good, but when I got deeper into the map I could not follow the logic. I do not support this map.

Salt Lake County should not be combined with Western Utah such as Price, Vernal, Moab, Blanding, Bluff, Mexican Hat. A District with both rural and urban is not able to represent all of the issues within the District. Salt Lake County should not be split.

This one seems too messy in its division of large, urban counties.

Clearly does not meet the criteria in Proposition 4 supported by the majority of Utahn's. Strange to keep splitting large cities up when we share so many of the same concerns and would like our voices heard along with our neighbors.

This map is unfair and unnecessarily divides urban areas. prop 4 clearly stated to follow natural boundary lines and keeping communities together. this map does not do that. Salt Lake City is once again divided in a way where I could walk down the street and be in a new district.

This doesn't meet prop 4, throw it out.

Salt lake county shouldn't be grouped with Moab. There is too much of an urban/rural mix. This is not very compact or proportional.

Map B does not meet the criteria for Proposition 4. The criteria of 'Minimizing Divisions of Municipalities and Counties' is blatantly ignored, School districts are split multiple different districts.

Splitting up the Alpine School district into 3 separate congressional statements seems very dumb

This map splits Salt Lake CIty in a way that does not seem to keep communities together- seems to deliberately split off Emigration Canyon and Mill Creek from Salt Lake City, and divides South Salt Lake

This map does not follow the requirements of Proposition 4. It divides Salt Lake County into multiple districts in a way that stretches across very different regions and communities, which weakens compactness and undermines community representation. The map creates unnecessary splits that fail to keep communities of interest intact.

This map does not comply with the rules set by prop 4. I don’t support this map.

There are clearly intentional splits within SLC that would equate to gerrymandering. This map was drawn with only one fairness test applied, which does not adhere to the court requirements (the word tests is applied). This does not uphold Prop 4.

Dilutes voices in the most populated regions. Elected officials should represent the population they serve.

Huge cut into major salt lake City area

What a poor map why are we breaking up communities like this... trying to suppress voters much?

This map is awful. There are better options than this that keep Salt Lake valley cities together in the same district.

This map fails to keep Salt Lake County, the most populous county in our state with 34% of the entire state population as a single community of interest. This map goes against allowing a single group to choose its own representative. The power of the citizenry is diluted with any division of this county.

The split between district 2 and 3 across Salt Lake City is not in the spirit of Prop 4. These communities have similar interest and should have similar representation. Additionally this map has large disparities between the 18+ population in each district. The adult population should be more evenly split among the districts like they are in Option D.

This does not follow guidelines of Prop 4. It does not Minimize division of cities and counties. Salt Lake is divided like a piece of pie.

Not as bad as option C but still pretty bad. Violates Prop 4. Needs significant improvements in proportionality, competitiveness, and compactness.

This map is not a good faith attempt to comply with Proposition 4.

This map again divides Salt Lake into tiny fragments. While I would be voting with folks in Tooele, my neighbors in West Valley and Millcreek would be voting with folks in Blanding. This dilutes the voices and concerns of rural and urban voters alike. Let's try to keep communities of interest together.

This map splits the community of Salt Lake and does not allow fair representation of Salt Lake residents wishes and needs. This does not meet the guidance of Prop 4.

This map splits the community of Salt Lake and does not allow fair representation of Salt Lake residents wishes and needs. This does not meet the guidance of Prop 4.

This map does not make sense. I live in Salt Lake County and my needs are not the same as someone in Southeast Utah. I do not go past the point of the mountain to frequent businesses. This map divides Salt Lake County with counties that are not similar

I agree that this is the worst of the maps. Each portion of Salt Lake should remain with other urban areas to the extent possible. It appears that this is an attempt to get as close to impermissible gerrymandering as possible and therefore is against the spirit of the judicial ruling and Prop. 4

This map looks like politicians are afraid of the power of Salt Lake City because they know their seats will be pulled out from under them. If this map is selected, it would only be a fantasy map for deluded people to think that there are no liberals in Utah. Doesn’t meet Proposition 4 at all. Embarrassing. Lame. Repugnant. Abhorrent. Undemocratic. Gerrymandering is for weak politicians. Grow a spine, develop a hobby, do anything but violate voter rights.

I think the dividing line between Districts 2 and 3 is nonsensical. I do think the southern boundary of District 1 is a reasonable consolidation of the interests of the cities in District 1.

MAP A: Grouping SLC with the desert to the west and Provo/Orem with all areas south, does not make sense. Combining VERY urban areas with VERY rural areas does not assure representation for either group.

No, this is an awful treatment of the districts. This genuinely feels like at the end of the day, nobody is happy. SLC is diluted into every other district, and therefore does not get their own voice, and the rural communities have to play double duty. Just not a great way to go about it.

This map cuts me and my neighbors apart. Judging by the comments, it seems like it does that to a lot of people. It is unnecessary.

I don't think the representative for a district like district 3 is drawn here would give that person a chance to talk with those they would represent. This is a lot of distance to travel and would give competing view based on locations

This map does not follow the requirements of Proposition 4. It divides Salt Lake County into multiple districts in a way that stretches across very different regions and communities, which weakens compactness and undermines community representation. The map creates unnecessary splits that fail to keep communities of interest intact.

This map is blatantly gerrymandered, splitting our urban region into 4 districts. It separates cities, earmuffs and snakes into other counties, separates areas of interest by diluting economic urban centers with rural swathes, and provides no fairness by any viable metric. 30% of utah voters vote Democratic. For any map to provide only Republican representations shows clear intent to maximize the unrepresented population of the state.

District boundaries are relatively regular, but most districts would remain safe for one party, leaving few opportunities for meaningful competition. While it reflects overall voter balance reasonably well, I don't believe that these districts would allow voters to feel their choice truly matters.

This proposal worsens the already terrible gerrymandering that the judge has mandated be corrected. I have nothing in common (community) with this proposed representative area. I can't even navigate safely on my bike from my home in Sugarhouse to the areas represented here.

This map strays the furthest from meeting the requirements of Prop 4. It does not seem like any of the requirements have been addressed other than equal populations.

This map is too gerrymandered to address the concerns of the urban Wasatch Front and doesn't follow Prop 4.

Map 233 shows incremental adjustments to congressional and legislative boundaries, reflecting attempts to balance urban and rural representation while addressing growth along the Wasatch Front. However, this map divides cohesive communities, particularly in Salt Lake County, diluting the political voice of urban voters by pairing them with distant rural regions. It does not reflect the spirit or intent of Proposition 4! DISLIKE!!!

This map is clearly divided in a way to silence urban voices. It does not logically group individuals in their communities with shared interests.

Option A is contrary to the spirit of Proposition 4.

reposting to show dislike of this map. i think it is the worst one by far.

Salt Lake City is split into three, the map clumps SLC literally with areas at the northern, eastern, and western parts of the state. Does not meet the requirement for Prop 4.

Salt Lake County three way split does not make any sense to fair representation outlined in Prop 4. There is not a fair division of urban and rural areas.

Does not fit prop 4 requirements and splits up communities and voices in the Wasatch front.

Not a great map overall. Breaks up and under-represents the more rural areas and breaks up some bigger areas in odd ways. This is not keeping communities together in a helpful way.

This map clumps rural and urban areas together and they have VERY different priorities that deserve representatives who understand the communities. It disregards the standards laid out by Prop 4.

Defeats the goals of prop 4 and fails to follow court orders.

This map is clearly not what was ordered by the judge and should therefore be disregarded.

This map breaks up communities. It does not provide fair representation. It appears to be drawn for partisan purposes. It looks nothing like any of the maps drawn by the non-partisan independent redistricting committee in 2021. The district court is likely to reject this map if it is chosen.

This map does not follow the requirements of prop 4. So why waste our time? Follow the requirements. Urban, Suburban, and rural voices have differing concerns, but they EACH want to be heard.

Better options are available.

Salt Lake County should not be split up in this fashion. We deserve to have a voice in Washington that is like minded. 1 party rule does not result in good governance as those in power have no reason to work for the people they represent. They know they will stay in power as long as they desire by simply having an (R) behind their name on the ballot. Salt Lake County deserves better.

This splits the Salt Lake Valley too much. I live in downtown SLC and don't have anything in common with others in Vernon. I worry about speeding on downtown street and unhoused getting services they need. Keep SLC as their own district and then divide up the rest of the state.

Another map where my vote is meaningless

This map does not meet the requirements of Prop 4

Absolutely no to a SLCo three-way split.

This map awkwardly splits salt lake into three districts and includes people from all across utah, i don't think it creates a boundary that reflects representatives from that area.

Option A does not follow Prop 4 guidelines and does not provide a fair and equal opportunity for communities and individuals to have their vote equally represented in the state of Utah.

Maps need to be on community/county boundaries to fully allow representation of that entire community. Stop splitting up Salt Lake County just to silence the ‘different point of view’ citizens who live there. Republicans need to stop drawing maps that benefit them – Utah is not 100% Republican, and the congressional representation should reflect the different opinions of the community. What happened to the independent commission maps? Why aren’t we choosing from those maps. Politician Parties should NEVER be allowed to draw their own maps. How ridiculous! Out of all these maps, Map B seems the fairest (even though it isn’t representative of the collective citizens in Salt Lake County).

Pretty sure the guidelines were to keep counties, cities, and communities together as often as possible in order to fairly represent the population and needs of the district. I really don't see how this map provides that when it splits some of the most densely populated counties up and tries to combine them with the more rural areas of the state. Obviously the needs of these areas are going to differ so why not listen to the guidelines and allow both communities to have separate voices. All that this map is going to do is split a district representative's attention in too many directions which isn't helpful to any of us.

This map makes no progress toward fair-er representation for Utahns. It splits Salt Lake City into three districts, separating neighbors from one another. A clear attempt at underhanded redistricting.

I've lived in Cache Valley and Utah County my entire adult married life and recently moved to Weber County. This map looks like they just chopped up Salt Lake City to make the Population in the other areas look equal-ish. Things in Salt Lake are way different than other communities I've lived in. They need their own representation. Just as I don't want city opinions making water rights decisions for farmers, I don't want a bunch of country bumpkins who only go to the big city once or twice a year telling me what to do with the homeless population. If the people don't live in my community, they shouldn't be making up rules for me. This is not a good map.

Let's follow reasonable lines and support interest of all communities.

this map is unjust and unfair and does not meet the intent of the proposition

I personally do not like how this is being divided, its not fair and it violates the principle of prop

This still splits too many like communities. Map C is the worst and the most fair is probably the Escamilla-Owens map. I'm not sure why we aren't going with one of the independently created maps though that Utahns originally asked for.

It doesn't make sense to split Southern Utah between districts due to how similar their needs are. I also disagree with splitting the most urban areas of Utah and giving each district a large section of rural Utah; their needs are not the same.

I prefer C

I do not support this map and encourage the map to be representative at the national level of what the our people and population truly believe and need.

The separation of communities is unnecessary. And why is southern Utah split apart, when they have more similarities in needs than the chunks of the Wasatch Front they are combined with?

This map divides Salt Lake County into several districts that cross very different regions and communities, reducing compactness and weakening representation. By creating unnecessary splits, it fails to keep communities of interest intact. As a result, the map does not follow the requirements of Proposition 4.

This map does not support the goal of Prop 4. It divides a large population center into multiple districts. The fragmenting of cities and counties in maps A-E is inconsistent with the intent of Prop 4 and undermines fair representation. The only map that truly seems to embrace the intent of Prop 4 is the Escamilla/Owens map.

This map doesn't seem to uphold the goal of Prop 4. It divides a large population center into at least 3 districts. I do not believe this makes sense in any logical sense and is unfair to the community of Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County. The constant fragmenting of cities and counties I see in maps A is inconsistent with the intent of Prop 4, and undermines fair representation. Please use one of the maps provided in the Independent Commission that keeps Salt Lake County together.

violates the principle of prop 4

This map is inconsistent with the intent of Prop 4. It divides the largest population center and merges it with rural areas, while also fragmenting counties and cities, which undermines fair representation.

I haven't been to the southeast corner of the state is over 15 years and I know that they likely have different priorities than I do. I feel like if we were to have the same representative in congress, they wouldn't be able to easily advocate for everyone's priorities with the map separated like this.

I feel that the metropolitan areas i.e. SLC, Provo, Orem are too close to the edges of each group. I think all of SLC and county should be in one area and not necessarily diluted by a large area of rural voters. The way it is dilutes the impact of all of the urban voters. Urban issues are different than rural issues and urban voters should have access to representation also.

SL County should not be divided and added to rural areas

Nope. Combines Salt Lake Valley with rural districts.

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I want to feel like I have a voice in government. In 2018, my wife and I would spend weekends registering voters at farmer's markets in hopes of helping to pass proposition 4. I was often tired from a long week at work on those days, but felt good about trying to make things better. I think democracy works best when when people are truly represented in government and politicians feel accountable to their constituents. I feel like this map continues the tradition of dividing communities and deliberately taking power away from the people.

This map still unnecessarily splits Salt Lake County and clumps groups with varyingly different wants and needs together. I can think of no valid, or logical, reason that Draper should share a district with Mexican Hat, a town that is a near five hour drive away. This does not conform with the intents and wants to Proposition 4.

This is middle of the road in terms of fairness, B and the Escamilla-Owens are better by far in terms of fairness.

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Fails to represent Utahans

Why would Monticello and South Salt Lake ever be in the same district? The needs, wants, and interests of those two cities alone are going to be completely different. This map doesn't represent the people in any of these districts fairly.

Why is Salt Lake County cut in half?

This map oddly splits the population of Salt Lake City to carve out voters into rural areas where you aren't really able to represent constituents effectively with such different needs. It also divides my neighborhood and community into two different districts within a few blocks.

This map does not follow the requirements of proposition 4. Please use one of the maps that was put together by the independent commission that we voted for.

This map does not meet the criteria for prop 4. It splits up communities and is not competitive at all due to splitting up of Salt Lake County. The boundaries are just very odd. Do better than this.

Another GOP gerrymander map. Another sign that the GOP policies are losers. This another map that gives the residence representatives that are useless and in the position for life.

This map isn't great, splitting key cities in half and connecting rural areas with major city centers and suburbs who have vastly different constituents and expectations. This map should not be an option and does not meet the expectations/requirements of Proposition 4.

This map is not functional; it does not follow geographical or natural boundaries. Nor is it focused on keeping cities/communities together.

This map doesn't follow county lines, which is one of the top principles of Prop 4.

This map breaks up core communities from Logan to Provo, diluting the voices of millions of Utah citizens who deserve to be heard. I implore you to reject this partisan redistrictment as it does not meet the requirements of Proposition 4.

I like Map A more than the other three maps that split Salt Lake County north to south, but it’s still a bad map overall. Splitting the county this way isn’t fair to the voters who live here, and overall, this map doesn’t comply with the intent of Prop 4.

This map does not keep cities whole, is not compact, does not have contiguous districts, and does not preserve communities of interest. It is not aligned with Prop 4 and should not be chosen.

This map goes directly against the guidelines set in Prop 4. I vote NO on this map.

NO! This is just more of a power grab by the Utah Super Majority Republican Legislature.

This map does not follow the requirements of Proposition 4

This map divides cities and counties. This does not preserve salt lake county as a community of interest. If anything, maps that cut Salt Lake County into four pieces are just the gerrymandered old map slightly rebranded.

This map does not meet the requirements of Proposition 4 and unnecessarily splits communities. We need a solution that closely matches the citizens' wishes as outlined in Prop 4.

I dislike the map. All of rural Utah will be under-represented with each district being dominated by urban areas.

Option A splits too many municipalities in the Salt Lake Valley, including linking Cottonwood Heights and Sandy with far-away communities that do not share our interests. This undermines Prop 4’s priority of minimizing splits and respecting communities of interest

I do not believe that this map follows the requirements of Proposition 4. It divides Salt Lake County with irregular borders across the communities there rather than preserving like-communities for equal and fair representation.

This map does not follow the requirements of Proposition 4. It divides Salt Lake in very strange ways. Looking closely you can find sections of neighborhoods cut out from their next door neighbors. This map is textbook gerrymandering.

This map violates the intent of Proposition 4 by splitting Salt Lake County into districts that stretch across completely different regions. That weakens compactness and dilutes community voices. These unnecessary splits fail to keep communities of interest intact, undermining fair representation.

This map does not meet the requirements of Proposition 4.

This map does not meet the requirements of Proposition 4. It is not fair, focused and functional. District 3 is sprawling, rather than compact, with irregular borders.

This map fails to comply with very clear rules outlined in Prop 4. As someone who works in Davis County and lives in Weber County, I do not believe that District 1 accurately represents the neighborhoods and communities of interest in Davis or Weber. This map does not accurately reflect a political balance and appears to favor one party over another, making it easier for incumbents to retain their seats even when the communities in their district do not agree with their policy positions. This map appears to attempt to dilute urban votes with suburban and rural votes, which gives suburban/rural voters an unfair advantage at the ballot box.

This map does not follow Proposition 4 requirements. It divides Salt Lake County into multiple districts in a way that stretches across very different regions and communities, which weakens compactness and undermines community representation. The map creates unnecessary splits that fail to represent the communities' interest.

As urban and rural areas have differing interests, it does not make sense to split the districts this way. Salt Lake City and the Valley should be divided in a way that will support legislators hearing and serving the distinct population they serve.

This map attempts to break up urban voters for partisan gain. Urban and rural needs/interests often do not align.

Rural areas of South Eastern Utah should not be mixed with Urban areas of SLC. This map does not uphold the mission of Proposition 4. Our needs in Grand and San Juan County are utterly distinct.

Splitting the Salt Lake Valley is indicative of fairness or consideration to the communities within the city.

This map appears committed to breaking up communities rather than preserving them. It splits Salt Lake County in violation of Proposition 4, Standard 3, and creates more sprawling districts than is necessary. More concise districts would better preserve the communities that they encompass.

This map does not follow the criteria of voter-supported Proposition 4. Salt Lake County is subdivided in a way to silence a significant number of Utahns who should have a voice. Salt Lake County voters have significantly different interests and concerns than rural voters and should not be represented by the same individual. The whole point of having a representative is that person should represent the values of its area, Salt Lake voters have different concerns than rural Utah voters. Each should have a voice.

WTF, this splits Murray, UT and the district will not provide a representative that will provide any support for the city.

I live in downtown Utah, and this map splits the vote - even of friends of mine who only live a few blocks away. This does not adhere to Utah Prop 4.

There is a challenge is having four equal districts cover the entire state, and even more challenging with the concentration of the population, but I don't think this map is consistent with Proposition 4 and I think it's a disservice to all Utahns to pair urban and rural communities together. The concerns for citizens in those communities can have some similarities, but there are also some big differences.

This map carves out certain communities to dilute their voting power. Including Millcreek. Not a fair map at all.

This map does not give fair representation to Utahns and does not follow the requirements of Proposition 4. This fails to keep communities of interest intact providing for fair community representation.

This map doesn't seem to follow Prop 4's requirements and appears to be an intentional gerrymander. It splits my representative between rural and urban voters and that's kind of how it is right now and we don't get good representation down here because her interests are so split between constituencies with such different needs.

I find this map unfair and unrepresentative. All four districts unnecessarily divide cultural groups within their own areas. For instance, Castle Dale and Gunnison are culturally similar but in different districts, as are Salt Lake County east and Salt Lake County west. This seems to just be gerrymandering.

This map does not follow the criteria of voter-supported Proposition 4. Salt Lake County is subdivided in such a way as to silence a significant number of Utahns who have important ideas, solutions and concerns that could advance the State of Utah and the nation.

It seems that it is the GOP's intent to split Salt Lake County into diluted voting districts. Once diluted with rural areas, it is easier to keep a GOP-dominant vote. I would ask, why not give proper representation to Utah? Why fight the people you claim to represent? I suggest this map be abandoned.

This map promotes inequity in our voting process. Urban and Rural areas should be in different districts. As each areas of the state have different needs from the persons that are REPRESENTING them while serving in office. This should not be a partisan redistricting. It should be about the best person to do the job and working in unison and across the isle. Personally I don't care if your Red, Blue, or Purple my representatives should be looking out for my communities best interests, and not kowtowing to anyone. I would like a "Mr. Smith" in Washington representing me not what we currently have.

This map does NOT align with voter-supported Proposition 4. It does not create compact, contiguous districts nor does it keep municipalities and communities of interest together. It unnecessarily splits Salt Lake County with the goal of disenfranchising Salt Lake City voters. UT voters approved Prop 4 so that their needs could be adequately represented in Congress. I do NOT support this map

This map does not match the letter or intent of Prop 4 and splits up like-communities to be paired with areas with regions holding no similar interests.

This does not follow the letter of the law for prop 4 and splits the map in a silly way. This is not bipartisan.

This map does not follow the requirements of Proposition 4. It divides Salt Lake County into multiple districts in a way that stretches across very different regions and communities, which weakens compactness and undermines community representation. The map creates unnecessary splits that fail to keep communities of interest intact."

This map does not follow the law. It inappropriately splits Salt Lake County at the neighborhood level. Someone traveling for daily activities would easily cross district boundaries.

I dislike this map because it does not preserve neighborhood or communities of interest. This plan divides cities across multiple districts, which is not supposed to happen.

Looks like gerrymandering to me. Separating Lehi from Saratoga Springs just so Salt Lake can be cut up? Come on.

This map is absolutely terrible. You randomly carved out areas in Urban Salt Lake where if I cross the street I would be in a completely different district. This is not fair and does not adhere to the rules laid out in prop 4 and by the judge. This map is awful

This map does not follow the requirements of Proposition 4. It unnecessarily divides Salt Lake and Utah Counties into multiple districts in a way that stretches across very different regions and communities, and fails to keep communities of interest together.

This map does not give proper representation of Utah in Washington DC.

This map does not match the requests from Prop 4

This map splits representation that is needed for our urban population and dilutes it with rural Utah interests which are completely different in so many ways. It does not follow what we asked for in Prop 4 and further divides us creating and east vs west salt lake county mentality.

This map flagrantly disregards the standards laid out by Prop 4: Salt Lake County is split 4 ways, the districts are not compact, the neighborhoods and communities within Salt Lake County are not preserved, and there is minimal regard for natural boundaries. This map is deeply against the spirit and intent of Prop 4.

Wow this is a suspicious cutout This map doesn't adhere to prop 4

Why is Salt Lake so obviously split up here? This is another gerrymandering attempt. The Escamilla/Owens Map is much better. All Utahns deserve a voice of representation in Washington.

This map does not meet the requirements of Proposition 4. It divides Salt Lake County into multiple districts in a way that stretches across very different regions and communities. This approach weakens compactness and undermines community representation. The map creates unnecessary splits that separate communities with shared interests.

It meets the Prop 4 standards, but not as strongly as Map C, which offers clearer, fairer representation.

Probably the worst of the bunch, as it continues to throw the needs of Salt Lake County residents together with the needs of very different rural communities. Salt Lake County has a population of roughly 1.3 million. It should be possible to keep most of those together in one district that will represent SL County's needs.

This map does not follow the requirements of Proposition 4. It divides Salt Lake County into multiple districts in a way that stretches across very different regions and communities, which weakens compactness and undermines community representation. The map creates unnecessary splits that fail to keep communities of interest intact

This is a bad map. why would we continue to split up the Salt Lake Valley like this?

i do not really like it because the purple area is really small, and the amount of space that is shared seems really unfair

This is another conspicuous attempt at gerrymandering.

This map feels like a clear attempt to continue gerrymandering. It continues to combine major suburban and urban areas with vast rural areas to dilute their votes with very different voting opinions

I disagree with splitting urban SLC and smooshing it together with rural areas. We have very different needs and that makes it difficult to be well represented.

the jut out into granger and chesterfield and south salt lake is a blatant gerrymander. this does not honor the spirit and intent of proposition 4

At this point, the goal of the all of the GOP involved in process is to flood the zone with these kind of maps so they can pick their voters and not have actually run on any issues that people care about. This isn't about fairness or following law of Prop 4, it's maximalism, all the time and every time, voters in the largest population center of the state be damned. All of these maps say that ' We the GOP are scared to death of the voters of in SL County. Therefore, we can't you speak'. Utah has citizens that are engaged, involved and care, we're not going let the volume of bad faith maps keep the citizens quiet. Enough!

Suburbanites have distinct transportation needs, jobs, socio-economic opportunities, interests, and lifestyles than rural folks. It doesn't make sense that folks in Daybreak and West Jordan should be represented by the same people representing very different people in rural areas.

Fair maps strengthen communities by keeping neighborhoods whole. This proposal deliberately carves them up, leaving people on the same street in different districts and ensuring broken representation instead of unity.

This map does not follow the requirements of Proposition 4. It divides Salt Lake County into multiple districts in a way that stretches across very different regions and communities, which weakens compactness and undermines community representation. My home in Sandy is combined with the very southern border of Utah, for example, which violates the representation that Utahns voted for. The map creates unnecessary splits that fail to keep communities of interest intact.

Not compact enough. Too many fingers.

As a resident of Sandy, I oppose this map because it splits Salt Lake County into several different districts instead of keeping our urban communities together. Under this plan, parts of the county are tied north with Weber and Davis, parts are stretched west with Tooele and Juab, and the southeast edge is grouped into a massive rural district that reaches all the way toward Carbon and Emery. This kind of division weakens the voice of people in Sandy and Salt Lake City. Our priorities—such as transit, housing, air quality, and growth along the Wasatch Front—are very different from the issues in the rural counties we are lumped together with. When our county is divided this way, none of the districts are centered on our shared concerns, and our representation is diluted. Proposition 4 requires that counties and cities be kept whole where possible, and that communities of interest be preserved. This map clearly violates that principle by carving Salt Lake County into multiple pieces. For that reason, I cannot support it.

his map does not follow the requirements of Proposition 4. It divides Salt Lake County into multiple districts in a way that stretches across very different regions and communities, which weakens compactness and undermines community representation. The map creates unnecessary splits that fail to keep communities of interest intact.

I want to see district boundaries that do not split communities but allow people living in the same neighborhood to be represented by the same representatives, not to have a different district a block away. This map is convoluted to achieve the opposite result: broken communities and inconsistent representation.

This isn't a good map because it breaks the rule required by the law in redistricting prop 4. Districts 2+3 are dividing SLC county and cities within. Look close to how erratic some of the boundaries are to exclude small neighborhoods to the point where some streets are almost completely surrounded by other districts.

Congressional representation should cluster communities with similar interests. This map splits our urban centers, which have distinct needs, and clusters them with our rural parts of the state. The resulting districts mean there the voices of our voters get diluted because we don't have representatives aligned with the very different needs of the different parts of our state. our cities (Salt Lake City, Provo) have distinct needs from St. George, Blanding, and Logan. This map does not represent that reality.

This map does not follow the rules of prop 4. We want fair maps and fair representation, keep communities together!

This is not an improvement on the current districting and creates the same issue of inaccurate representation that already exists.

Horrible map. Stop splitting up communities. Rural and urban have different needs. Respect the voters.

This map should not be considered because it was not drawn by the UIRC and is not similar to any maps drawn by the UIRC.

Southern and eastern Utah share much more in common than than we do with Utah county. We need representation that can focus on our unique tourism, terrain, and locale.

This splits communities. How is this a fair representation? Stop gerrymandering and start being American. We need to represent communities and the only way to do that is to keep them together.

This map ignores the premises of Prop 4 splitting too many cities and counties.

The splits between neighborhoods in this maps are so arbitrary and creates breaks where it shouldn't.

This map goes out of its way to carve up SLCounty! I prefer the Escamilla/Owens map over this map. This map does not minimize city/county divisions, divides communities, and does not offer proportional and competitive voter outcomes.

This manages to divides Salt Lake City and also West Valley City. Continues the gerrymandering principle by which cities are represented as if they are rural areas.

bad

I live in Salt Lake County and am disappointed with this map. It does not create the kind of competitive district that reflects the views of my neighborhood. Our county should not be lumped in with such rural areas. Our needs are so different. This map is one of the worst options provided.

This map splits West Valley City unnecessarily, creating divisions within a community that should remain whole. The carve-out in North Salt Lake is oddly shaped and does not make sense for fair representation. It is also hard to understand what Mountain Green, Sandy, and San Juan County have in common, as these communities are very different and do not share natural connections. Overall, the districts in this map are sprawling and do not reflect the interests of cohesive communities.

None of the Legislative maps are as fair as the independent committee's. They all dilute Salt Lake County. They split counties, cities, and neighborhoods with similar interests. They combine urban and rural areas, which have completely different interests. They do not use natural boundaries. They do not represent fair, proportional and competitive maps and therefore do not meet the needs of the people. Salt Lake County represents the largest population and should therefore be represented as one district, not split up and picked apart.

This map doesn't represent the communities fairly

This map does not feel like it represents the local communities. As a Saratoga Springs resident, my needs are different than St. Georges.

I'm curious why San Juan County is joined with the eastern side of SLC. Economically, SJC is one of the poorest counties and by adding into an urban area, I believe it will dilute the rural voices.

This map divides my workplace, my home, and my primary doctor's office into 3 different districts. That is ridiculous.

These districts divide my family's workplace, school, and home. The population is even, but it's at the cost of dividing communities.

This splits me from my neighbors in ways that can only be for gerrymandering

This map splits cities down the middle. That makes no sense to me. I do not like this map.

I dislike this map. It groups communities with little in common, and rural and urban communities have different needs.

Again dividing Salt Lake and Wasatch Front with a north south line.

This map ignores the premises of Prop 4. Too many cities and counties are split up.

This map breaks up my community. I don't believe my community has the same needs as Wendover. As an urban citizen, I want my community to have fair representation. Allowing rural voices to make decisions for my community does not make sense. This is true on the other side as well.

Once again, the Utah State Legislature is denying the urban residents fair representation. The map is drawn so that rural and suburban communities get representation and Salt Lake City, our state capitol, is denied representation on the national level. I have read and heard often the Legislature state that their intent is to give Salt Lake City better representation. That has not been true. The Legislature has found ways to punish the capital city instead by creating special districts in the city without any control over them by the city. It's been a power grab and a land grab by those up on the Hill.

After looking at all the maps, the Owen's Map shows good progress in meeting the spirit and letter of the Prop. 4 law. The others are creatively trying to draw districts that still hold onto political gerrymandering. I hope the judicial court that reviews these maps firmly holds the position of the importance of letting every voice be heard.

Splitting Salt lake county and combining it with rural northern utah communities does not allow a represantative to focus on the unique needs of those communities. Also, combining Utah County with southern utah is an even more egregious error, they have completely different needs especially water and public land concerns.

This is still very clearly gerrymandering. It's sad and disgraceful.

This map clearly splits Salt Lake County's residents and dilutes their representation. It does not meet voter requirements as outlined in proposition 4.

I don't like that SLC is split in this option. This map does not meet voter requirements as outlined in proposition 4. Specifically it does NOT minimize city and county splits and is NOT the most proportional and competitive map.

Not the worst, but not the best either.

Bad map

This puts a massive area of rural constituents with constituents in Salt Lake City. Those areas have wildly different needs.

I live in an urban area with mountains that confine dirty air and other issues such as homelessness and crowded neighborhoods. This map doesn't even keep my zip code.

My kids would be going to school in a different district from the one we live in - I do not believe this map is a fair representation of the people of Utah.

This map does not follow any reliable boundaries, it spilts up neighborhoods, school districts, cities, and counties in a harmful way. Any political candidate would most likely have zero competitiveness when it comes to elections and zero accountability to represent their districts responsibly. The populations may be pretty equally distributed but that is the only positive this map has and it's at everyone's expense.

Possibly the worst of the worst. Does not fairly represent communities of interest on the Wasatch Front, nor rural Utah.

Once again diluting Salt Lake County. Only maps where Salt Lake County remains largely intact should be considered. It is the most populous county and deserves to have its own representation.

In this map, Salt Lake County is split in a way that makes no sense to me as a resident of downtown Salt Lake City. It ignores most of the requirements for proper redistricting. It divides communities with common interests. Please look at all of the negative comments and compare it with the Escamilla Owens map with all the green dots indicating that it is by far the most popular with those who have taken the time to comment.

This map splits urban areas and will not represent my neighborhood concerns adequately.

Maps should be drawn by an independent committee. This map is heavily gerrymandered and does not meet the requirements of Prop 4. It does not minimize city or county splits, or preserve communities of interest.

This map divides SLC and does not meet the guidelines.

By splitting up SLC county this map violates the will of the voters as expressed in Prop 4.

This map (Leg Map A) does not meet Prop 4 requirements. It joins urban and rural areas of the state, whose constituents generally have different issues. It splits communities with common interests. The cities with large populations, such as Salt Lake City and others along the Wasatch Front, should be kept together as much as possible in one district because of common interests and issues. This map also does not follow logical divisions such as geographic or county boundaries.

Urban and rural areas of the state have very different concerns and should not be lumped together. As in the past, the majority party in the legislature is trying very hard to dilute the urban vote by abitrarily dividing up the urban areas. This is a contorted attempt to do just that and is a clear attempt to ensure that a Democrate is never elected to Congress. This blatantly ignors the will of the people when we passed Prop 4.

Still feels like you're carving up Utah's urban corridor.

This map violates the Proposition 4 standards for drawing fair maps--especially standards 3,4, and 6. It is unfair to voters.

This map is pure gerrymandering and ignores Prop 4. It shouldn't be taken seriously as following Prop 4 and the Courts' direction.

This map would have Tanner Park and all of Parley's Canyon access represented by District 2 voters, while the individuals who access it and are most impacted by decisions related to it, in this map's District 3, would not be represented. One of the many reasons this map unnecessarily divides a community from being able to elect representatives to voice their opinions about their cultural and community resources.

The needs and priorities of Utah’s rural and urban communities often differ, and effective representation requires ensuring that no voices are diluted or left behind. Pitting urban and rural areas against one another does little to serve our residents. While this map is an improvement over some of the others, it fails to meaningfully align communities of interest. For that reason, I cannot support it.

Communities share common challenges and common needs. While we all share the common uniting feature of living in Utah, the communities along the urban corridor of the Wasatch front have unique and very real concerns that are much different than the equally real and unique concerns of rural communities. We do not live, operate, nor vote as once single statewide district, thus splitting urban communities and grouping them with rural ones only serves to dilute the voices of those communities, to the detriment of their very real concerns. This map artificially breaks up logical and functional communities. Please do not use this map.

I grew up in rural Idaho and have now lived in Salt Lake for 15 years. This background has helped shape how I see political districts. I understand deeply how the needs and opinions of many people in rural and urban areas differ. Having appropriate representation is important not to ensure a partisan victory in one direction or another, but to help give Utahns people who are representing their specific interests rather than being pulled in multiple contradictory directions. Because this map still splits many of the most populated areas in ways that dilute our voices, I urge you not to use this map.

too much gerrymandering. counties and especially cities should be held together, enabling there to be proper representation.

I became involved with passing Prop 4 because I truly believe we are a better state and society when we have representation that supports whole communities, keeps cities whole, and communities of interest together. This map completely cuts Salt Lake City and County in half. We need Salk Lake City to be represented for their specific needs, just as St. George deserves proper representation. Please abide by the Prop 4 specifications. I don't believe this map does this. As I look at the various maps, I believe that the map built by Escamilla/Owens best meets the criteria outlined in Prop 4 that the Citizen's voted for. Thank you!

I got involved with Prop 4 because I believe that proper representation is needed throughout all of Utah. I believe we are a better community when gerrymandering does not occur. I feel like the needs and desire of those in Salt Lake City have not been represented. I believe that it's important for my representative to know and understand the needs of SLC and to represent that need. I don't feel that This map represents the fair districting guidelines. Most specifically keep the counties whole, keep cities whole, compact the districts, and preserving neighborhoods and communities of interest. I ask that this map be declined. I believe that the Escamilla Owens map best meets these criteria. Thank you!

This map fails to reflect the intent of Proposition 4, the court’s order, and the will of the people. The proposed single partisan symmetry test compounds the problem. Please respect the will of the people and do better. We need maps that strengthen Utah, not divide and weaken our voices.

This map makes very little sense. The division of Salt Lake County jogs around in all sorts of unnecessary ways, dividing neighborhoods and not following natural features or logical boundaries.

If I had to represent any of these districts, my job would be very hard because I would always have to choose between at least 2 distinct populations. I would think we would want representatives to be able to serve the needs of the people in their districts without having to choose. There are ways to make things better for the people as well as those attempting to serve them.

Very gerrymandered; dilutes SL county and progressive voices.

Splitting up SLC is totally against the spirit of keeping communities together. This map is just another attempt by the Republican super majority to continue supressing the will of voters.

I do not like that Salt Lake City is split up in this option. This is against fair districting guidelines and is a gerrymandering tactic. Utah voters voted against gerrymandering back in 2018 and we clearly do not want this.

I am not liking how this map splits Salt Lake City every which way. The lines between District 2 and 3 do not follow any coherent reasoning.

This one splits up SLC in a way that seems intentionally gerrymandered. Why are my Millcreek and Holladay neighbors in a different district while I'm paired with folks in Bluffdale?

This map slices up SLC and cuts out my Millcreek and Holladay neighbors from me and pairs me with people all the way on the other end of SL County. Do not support this map.

I do not support this map. SLC is split among multiple districts. Rather than parts of my city staying together, I am paired up with the southern-most part of Salt Lake County.

This map does not reflect proper boundaries. Being in Salt lake county but part of district 2 which includes rural living and lifestyle doesn’t match to those in the city. We need proper representation for each type of life style.

I'm going to jump in with all the other people who have commented about why we haven't included any of the maps that were produced by the IRC? We were able to see those and comment on them and they worked very diligently on making them as fair as possible. I never saw what the legislature already had in their back pocket ready to go when they threw out the IRC maps, but none of these current maps are helping with gerrymandering. I don't understand why we're re-drawing the maps that the IRC produced and trying to figure out which of these is the least horrible of the bunch.

Tell me, how does this map differ from the Gerrymandered map the legislature drew up after the passage of the Citizen's Initiative I voted in favor or, and was summarily ignored by the Legislature. Putting the legislature in charge of re-drawing the legislative districts they gerrymandered in 2020, is the equivalent of believing everything Trump says, or giving the fox the security responsibility for the henhouse, dumb.

I love Utah and I love my community. I have worked to support my community in community councils, and serving on local boards, it showed me that neighborhoods matter and local representation matters. Having to share a representative with folks clear across the state has meant I have never felt like my voice was heard in congress. Many of us in Utah share that same concern. These maps really matter, they are a chance ot keep communities together, to make sure the voices of all Utahns are heard and that our kitchen table issues make it to the halls of congress. That's why I'm asking the commission to pass maps that reflect the real Utah and respect Prop 4. If we do this, we have the chance to make sure all of our neighborhoods and local issues are seen and heard.

I love Utah and I love my community. I have worked to support my community in community councils, and serving on local boards, it showed me that neighborhoods matter and local representation matters. Having to share a representative with folks clear across the state has meant I have never felt like my voice was heard in congress. Many of us in Utah share that same concern. These maps really matter, they are a chance ot keep communities together, to make sure the voices of all Utahns are heard and that our kitchen table issues make it to the halls of congress. That's why I'm asking the commission to pass maps that reflect the real Utah and respect Prop 4. If we do this, we have the chance to make sure all of our neighborhoods and local issues are seen and heard.

This map does not create equal districts with adequate representation.

I don't agree with the way that map A creates unfair proportionality. Democrats make up 1/3 of the state and the districts should reflect that.

This map does not create a competitive landscape for politicians making it too easy for elected officials to keep their seats.

This has the same problem we had before. None of these keep communities of interest together.

Highly gerrymandered - so all 4 districts lean right. Does not reflect the populus of our state.

This map continues the bad redistricting process from before by keeping SL County and parts of SLC separate and combining them instead with rural areas. Keeping blocks with similar interests together is the best way to ensure that all voices are heard.

This map included badly gerrymandered districts and divides communities. It ignores most of the requirements for proper redistricting and should be rejected outright. The Escamilla Owens map remains the only option that meets the requirements for fair redistricting

This map is shameful and no different from what was struck down in court. What are you thinking?????

This map defeats the goals of Prop 4. It breaks up my county (Utah) and Salt Lake County (into 3--which is better than current, but still unacceptable). It does not use natural boundaries and put together areas of the state that have divergent interests.

This map does not achieve the goals of the majority of voters who are seeking fair districting and representation. People that live in an urban area, such as myself, deserve some representation and this map will clearly maintain the status quo that was clearly rejected through the ballot initiative.

Maps like this defeat the purpose of districts in the first place.

Terrible map. Salt Lake City shares a representative with Wendover—and South Salt Lake and most of Salt Lake County are split. Urban voters have interests and priorities that are different from rural voters.

Terrible map. It splits the state in ways that dilute the population into groups that have nothing in common. The whole point of a district map is for it to be from a "district"!!

This map would result in no distinct Urban voice from Utah, Thus it is a bad map

This map makes no sense. Urban and rural areas have different interests and needs. What is the point of slicing up all of these cities and trying to mash them together when they all need different things? This is a very weak map.

This map splits the heavily developed suburban areas of the Wasatch Front and lumps them together with rural areas. The interests, concerns, and livelihoods of people in rural areas are very different from those on the Wasatch Front.

This map does not help preserve communities of interest. Why are urban and rural communities grouped together? They have vastly different needs, priorities, and problems, and it is unfair to both urban and rural communities to have them share districts. There are other maps like 249 from Escamilla-Owens which does a much better job at attempting to balance these community needs.

This map unfairly divides up Salt Lake County and dilutes urban/suburban interests in the state. This is exactly what Utah voters said they didn't want. My family's interests are very different from San Juan County. We are hours apart yet represented by the same Congressman? We do not share a "communit[y] of interest."

This map puts me, who lives in a suburban city, with folks who live in rural areas. Our interests don't align and are often times contradictory. Please do not choose this map.

This map is the weakest option, splitting Salt Lake County and pairing urban neighborhoods with distant rural areas. This dilutes urban voices and ignores compactness.

My interests will rarely if ever be fairly represented if this map is adopted.

We all want our individual interests to be represented. We all want our individual interests to be represented as part of our community's interests. Dividing up communities in a way that dilutes votes and compromises issues does not help democracy. Map option 249 makes the most sense in terms of making sure communities' interests are represented together. This map does not do that.

This map does not fairly represent the interests of the communities in our state the way option 249 does.

When I was a youth, we were taught in church that the 'Commies' were evil because they had Monolithic One-Party rule - which inevitably leads to corruption. By this teaching, it could be said that Utah Republicans have turned our state into an Evil Empire. They have grown so entrenched in their corruption that they first brazenly overturned the will of the voters. Even now they are largely ignoring the plain black and white language which the voters passed calling for a fair and "independent" redistricting process. Is a Republican-hired consultant "independent"? Is the approval by a board that has a Republican Super-Majority "independent"? Why is every map put forth by the Republican-hired consultant a naked attempt to disenfranchise the core of Salt Lake County? Do what is right, let the consequence follow, eh?

This map chops communities up!

The Escamilla-Owens map does a better job of dividing the state by community boundaries

Maps that divide cities and counties are not in the best interest of voters. Districts that include extremely rural areas and urban areas cannot be effectively represented as the issues and concerns are so very different.

This map is an intentional move to lock in Republican leadership for years to come because they don't have policies that work for the people they represent. Instead of listening to what the voters want, they blame the Democrats for what is wrong and refer to people that don't agree with them as "liberal." Clearly, the five maps submitted by the Republicans are meant to defuse my vote among a sea of voters I disagree with.

This map is bad. It divides counties and communities.

How in the world does this map represent local concerns? This doesn't make any sense to have my concerns diluted with rural concerns and vice versa. It honestly just disconnects me from my neighbors and puts me in a random bucket

This map unecessarily splits the Salt Lake County urban area, combining the pieces with suburban and far-flung cities, such as Wendover, Utah.

Creating updated district boundaries is hard. It is hard when it is embarked upon with honesty and integrity. The previous legislature made redistricting infinitely more difficult on this legislature than it inherently is by destroying trust the first time around. This legislature isn’t helping itself in that regard. This map is not an example of trying to restore or reestablish trust. I strongly oppose map A for many of the reasons already stated in other comments. It unnecessarily splits communities to maintain a strong republican influence in all districts - as if that wasn't going to be the case anyway.

This map is bad. Why not actually start from the independent commissions' maps? This does not comply with the goals of Prop 4 - to eliminate partisan, gerrymandered maps.

This map cuts up communities, including mine, in a non-logical and gerrymandered fashion. It does not give urban areas a united voice and true representation. My representative in district 3 could never represent my interests in Canyon Rim while also trying to represent most of eastern rural Utah. With this map I have neighbors wtihin a couple of miles of me that are placed into other districts, for no logical reason. This map splits up communities in odd ways that should instead be grouped together to ensure proper representation of those areas of Utah. It seems to split up neighborhoods to the point that two neighbors could be in completely different districts. Also, the needs and concerns of the rural corners of Utah are going to be different than the more population dense urban centers and both need to be represented.

This map is terrible. It splits up communities in odd ways that should instead be grouped together to ensure proper representation of those areas of Utah. It seems to split up neighborhoods to the point that two neighbors could be in completely different districts. Also, the needs and concerns of the rural corners of Utah are going to be different than the more population dense urban centers and both need to be represented.

This map would put my place of work, 6 miles away, in a different district. It would mean employees at two large hospitals would be coming from all four districts, despite participating in the same economy.

Important to keep urban and rural districts intact as much as possible. Legislators can gain more expertise in how to represent these two unique groups and the challenges and concerns they face. None of the 5 maps (A-E) are fair and representative of the intent of Prop 4. The Owens/Escamilla map comes closest to meeting the Prop 4 legislation.

I am ready to be represented by someone in my county and not have my district gerrymandered to appease the power hunger and ugliness of our house of rep.

I disagree with dividing the urban area of Salt Lake into multiple parts and then combining urban communities with rural areas. We have different needs and concerns and should have representation that can address the needs of either a primarily rural or urban district.

Another terrible gerrymandered map.

This is a great example of a partisan gerrymander, something that Prop 4 forbids and which the courts have repeatedly struck down. It splits me from my community (I work 10 minutes from home but they are in different districts?), while putting me with distant suburbs, exurbs, and truly rural communities. No one can fairly represent the Avenues, Herriman, and Wendover and you know it. Shame on the legislature. Maybe ask Escamilla and Owens what they have been up to!

Stick to the original maps from 2021 that already went through this process. Salt Lake County should be one district. And the idea of 2 rural and 2 urban districts is the fairest.

This map has many issues. I prefer Option D.

I completely disagree with this attempt to merge urban and rural voters. It splits my city into unnatural wedges. Our elected House Representative is meant to be able to reflect and respond to the needs of their constituents. This is a house divided by vastly different needs, and cannot effectively be represented by the same Congressman. Utahns voted for an independent committee so the spirit and original letter of Proposition 4 will be respected in our electoral maps. This map does not meet the standards.

The best map, that most fairly represents Utahns, is the Escamilla-Owens map. Option A divides the neighborhoods of Salt Lake City in confusing ways. It is not fair or balanced, creates confusion among Salt Lake City voters, and doesn't group people with common concerns. Sugarhouse and Millcreek share more common concerns than Millcreek and Moab, or Sugarhouse and Tooele. This map is unfair to both urban and rural voters, neither of which will have their interests fairly represented.

I do not understand why we would opt for another map that joins rural and urban communities together. This map goes out of its way to do that. Our representatives should know the communities they represent. Rural communities should have representatives that understand rural needs. Urban communities the same. This map ensures that our representatives don't understand the needs of half of their constituents.

This is a very strange map that divides neighborhoods in confusing ways. My neighborhood is totally carved up into weird little chunks. This does not seem fair or balanced and creates confusion among neighbors and neighborhoods which have common concerns and issues. Please choose either the Escamilla-Owens map (which is the most sensible) or Map E (which is an acceptable second choice).

This map breaks up my community.

Another terrible map that dilutes the voice of urban residents. Urban and rural dwellers face different issues and should have representation in Congress that reflects their concerns!

This is not a fair map. My and my neighbors' voices will be drowned out by rural concerns which are different than urban concerns including to name just a few: crime/perceptions of crime; access to health care; poverty levels; homeless issues; public lands; climate change.

Partisan gerrymander that violates court stipulations.

This map is not a fair representation of all the different demographics involved in our state's voting process.

Weird that this map has rural communities mixed in with Salt Lake City. Doesn't that make it so that the rural voters are completely overpowered by urban voters?

This map is gerrymandered to break up and delute the votes of Salt Lake City, Davis, and Summit Counties. Rural areas with large numbers of agricultural, mining, and energy interests should not be mashed up with urban constituents.

Bad map

This map cuts up communities in the valley awkardly. I dislike this. My representative in district 2 would be unable to aquately represent my interests in West Jordan while adequately representing those in western rural Utah.

Well, this is a horrendous example of gerrymandering if I've ever seen one. This map is such an obvious attempt to break up communities to rig elections. Big no for this one.

Terrible map. does not give equal representation to large part of utah!

Shouldn’t this be in district 1?

Strongly dislike this map. While it passes the legislature's manufactured test of "partisan bias," it was clearly made to continue Utah's gerrymander and circumvent the intentions of the voters expressed in Prop 4. The legislature should be abiding by the recommended maps of the Independent Redistricting Committee.

What is this poor orphaned precinct? Looks like a little cherry picker just to keep it out of district 4.

Why Split Salt Lake County into 3 districts? Makes no sense!

The Escamilla-Owens map is the one that best represents the intent of Proposition 4 by keeping communities together. Given the recent court decisions, we should be using a map created by the independent commission. Short of that, the Escamilla-Owens map is my top choice. Out of options A-E, option E while still gerrymandered, appears to be the least gerrymandered. I cannot support A-D.

I dislike this map.

This map puts me as an urban citizen in the same district as West Wendover. It does not represent me well.

Why is Salt Lake County still split down the middle? Madness. This map is gerrymandered and counter to the will of the voters who voted to require Prop 4 does NOT stipulate that each seat should somehow inflate representation to ensure it reflects statewide trends; quite the opposite. The guidelines are clear (pay attention to b and e): a) adhering to federal law and achieving equal population between districts; (b) minimizing divisions of municipalities and counties across multiple districts; (c) making districts geographically compact; (d) making districts that are contiguous and allow for ease of transport throughout the district; (e) preserving traditional neighborhoods and local communities of interest; (f) following natural and geographic boundaries, barriers, and features; and (g) maximizing the agreement of boundaries between different types of districts.

I do not support maps A, B, C, or D, which do not follow the intent of Proposition 4, the court's order, or the will of the people.

I do not like this map

Nice try legislature, but still partisan gerrymandering.

This map still splits Salt Lake Valley strangely in half. Me living 10 minutes from downtown salt lake should not put me in the same district as Moab in the farthest SE corner of the state.

This has the same problem we currently have- splitting Salt Lake Valley into multiple districts so they won't be represented properly by either of them

I do not support maps A, B, C, or D. They fail to reflect the intent of Proposition 4, the court’s order, and the will of the people by dividing communities and entrenching partisan advantage. The proposed single partisan symmetry test only adds to the problem, as it appears to be another attempt to suppress the will of the people for partisan politics. I also find many of the committee members’ reasons for not using maps submitted by the public to best comply with Proposition 4 problematic, and another example of disregarding the will of the people. Committee members, please stop complaining about the court order, Utah’s Supreme Court, and Better Boundaries. Fair elections are as American as it gets. Your repeated efforts to avert the will of Utahns are the reason you are having to meet. It is time for our state legislators to remember they are providing a public service, not acting as CEOs of the people of Utah. I believe the majority of Utahns see you as the problem, not the solution — which is why the majority of us voted for Proposition 4. The committee should respect Utahns by adopting the Better Boundaries maps from 2020 and by applying multiple partisan symmetry tests such as the efficiency gap, mean–median difference, and partisan bias to ensure fairness, transparency, and accountability.

This is an improvement on the current map, but there are several map goals that aren't being met. This splits urban cities, splits counties, and aggregates voter needs from St. George all the way to Slat Lake City. The needs of the citizens in that large geographic area are hard to address and support by 1 congressional district.

This split through the heart of SLC is better than the four-way cracking we currently have, but still dilutes the state's largest Democratic stronghold. Not a fair map.

It attempts to break up communities of interest, like urban voters, in order to achieve a partisan end.

I'm concerned that Salt Lake is being split up--yet again.

The fact that this maps places Sandy and San Juan Counties in the same district tells you all you need to know. This is not created with any intent other than to chop up Salt Lake County. It is clearly does not align with the spirit of Prop 4.

Perpetuates the existing gerrymandered districts

I like how Provo and Orem are kept together on this map, but the split through Salt Lake is such an irregular shape and makes no sense. Prop 4 says we should try to use natural boundaries where possible and avoid irregularly-shaped districts.

It is ridiculous that I can still walk a few blocks to another district from my home. This map makes no sense and reflects nothing but an attempt to split the vote of different nonpartisan interest groups, going against what is intended when redistricting.

The urban areas are awkwardly divided.

It makes no sense for sandy to be lumped into the rest of eastern utah

This map is another clear attempt at gerrymandering Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County. This map lumps together communities with totally different needs—rural and urban areas that don’t share the same priorities. It ignores natural boundaries like geography or county lines, making it hard to see where real common interests actually live. It is clear by the amount of comments here saying the same thing that this map does not aim to represent the interests of all Utahns.

This does not give the largest block of Utah citizens an equal representation as most of the Southern parts of the state.

The way Utah County is split up makes no sense and ignores city boundaries. Salt Lake County is also carved up far too much, weakening the democratic voice of the state.

It is obvious that the goal is to dilute the impact of urban voters

While Salt Lake County may be too large to be in one district, Salt Lake City is not. The city should be in one district.

Option A treats a forced mix of rural and urban areas as if it were a strength. It isn’t — it’s a bug. Pairing downtown neighborhoods with distant rural counties doesn’t create balance, it dilutes both voices. The standards in Proposition 4 put real communities first: compact, contiguous, and representative of how people actually live. Option A ignores that by carving up Salt Lake County and stitching the pieces to regions with completely different needs and interests. This map should be rejected.

This map divides areas of common interest and combines rural and urban areas which have very different priorities. It does not follow logical divisions such as geographic or county lines.

Groups together areas with very different interests--urban and rural areas pushed together in every district means that neither urban or rural areas will have their interests represented well.

This map does not follow Utah Code 20A-20-302(5)(a), (d), and (f)(iii). Please follow the law passed by a majority of voters statewide. Salt Lake County deserves to be represented in the US Congress.

No. More gerrymandering.

Salt Lake County should have its own district. This map fails miserably at giving the largest population center its own district and instead divides it up with populations that have totally different interests.

This is not a good option in that the districts are a mix of urban and rural communities which often have different priorities. The "hub and spoke" approach divides communities.

Another gerrymandered map trying to pass as a fair map.

There are three school districts and two congressional districts that poorly overlap in this area. This doesn’t keep any of these communities together.

The only thing that West Valley and West Wendover have in common is a directional name in their city.

This is another no. Too much division in SL county

This map divides and unfairly represents the urban and suburban communities around SLC.

Does a very poor job of fulling the "Minimal division of municipalities and counties" principle as well as a poor job of meeting the "Preserve communities of interest" principle. None of the maps do this in a ideal manner, but this one should be rejected.

The committee is virtually exclusively using the Partisan Symmetry Test to create these maps under the guise that it is the norm for creating unbiased maps. This is blatantly deceptive to anyone who takes 10 minutes to do some research on the test (how it works here: https://www.utahpoliticalwatch.news/utah-republicans-drop-a-redistricting-poison-pill/). The Partisan Symmetry Test is INHERENTLY BIASED for states that historically elect a particular majority party; the test methods literally give the majority party significant advantage points and the minority party significant disadvantage points, which ultimately perpetuates the status quo of past elections. The Partisan Symmetry Test IS a good test for historically battleground states, which Utah has not been historically. I'd be less insulted if the committee just said, "We know this is wrong, but we're doing it anyways." instead of trying to pull this one over on us.

This map tacks urban areas to rural areas in a blatant attempt to dilute urban concerns. Any map that splits counties should have an incredilby important reason to do so. This map doesn't appear to have one. The towns of the West Desert have nothing in common with the urban heart of Salt Lake County. Represenatatives should be able to focus on issues that affect their constituents and if the constituents are not living in the same areas, they are not going to be facing the same problems.

The fact that the republican members of the redistricting commission have started every meeting with complaints about how this process is unfair is really telling. They seem to have absolutely no sense of nuance with respect to the reason for the multiple cascading requirements of Proposition 4. Every map they have proposed is exactly down to a person equal for each of the 4 congressional districts, at the expense of some households, streets, communities, or cities. The 6th map has the largest deviation of only 37 voters, keeping communities together. If the only requirement was the number of voters, the republican commissioners would win a medal. Since there are other factors that should be weighed, they have failed miserably by hyper focusing and missed the forest for the trees.

This map disfranchises urban voters. As a resident of Millcreek, I don't feel like I would get fair representation with these boundaries.

This is one of the worst of the 5 maps. Each portion of Salt Lake should remain with other urban areas to the extent possible, instead of combining rural and urban interest groups for no reason. We should be using the Independent Committees maps but if we have to use one of these 5 do not choose this one.

I live in Riverton and am right on the split between 2 and 3. My job is in 3 and my home is in 2. I grocery shop on my way home from work in 3 but sometimes 2. Splitting counties doesn't work. This is almost the same map that we currently have.

These maps shouldn't even exist. Use one of the maps from the original UIRC that had the full mandated process behind them.

Splitting Utah county this way doesn't make sense. It makes more sense to exchange the Utah county parts of district 3 for some of the southern Utah parts of district 4.

While in a lot of ways an east west split of the salt lake valley makes some sense. The specific split line is a mess that doesn't make a lot of sense.

This map still splits the vote of Salt Lake County and does a poor job keeping communities together. The self-imposed need for legislatures to include rural and urban elements in every district is disingenuous and fails to properly represent the people of Utah.

Legislative gerrymandering continues by a partisan legislature. Start with the maps drawn by the non-partisan commission the voters asked for.

How is it reasonable for GOP legislators to think Granger has anything to do with Blanding UT? Simple: more gerrymandering. Stop splitting up Salt Lake just because you're fearful of losing power. This is absurd that we voted on this in 2018 - literally 7 years ago, and we're still dealing with us as constituents not being properly represented. None of these maps uphold Prop 4. Just go with the independent committee's map.

I'm not sure what the justification is for having Millcreek, Blanding, and Vernal in the same district. I'm not sure there is a good way for one representative to be an advocate for the interests of all these communities.

This map does not fulfill the requirements of Prop 4. It splits up Salt Lake and links to multiple areas it has little in common with. The people's voices will be muted. If the purpose is to gerrymander for more power, this map does that.

Use the maps given to you in 2021 and stop wasting taxpayer money trying to rig everything in your favor. It's so obvious.

This map is not in the spirit of Prop 4 and appears to hold biases. The creator of the map appears to hold biases that impact the fairness of the districts. This is better than the current maps but still bad for Utah.

This map is a total joke. Why are we splitting Salt Lake County down the middle?! Absolutely not!

Do you think we're all idiots? This map does not meet Prop 4 guidelines inasmuch as it doesn't consider multiple fairness tests. History will not be kind to republicans, in Utah especially.

I do not like this map. It is obviously cutting up Salt Lake in an unfavorable way. Lincoln Fillmore, you are my representative, please represent me honestly. This is heavily gerrymandered and you know it.

This map still splits salt lake city and its greater metropolitan area into multiple districts with no clear reasoning behind the location of the boundaries. It still fails to meet the guidelines of prop 4. Why does it assume that salt lake city has more in common with rural western utah than south salt lake city and sandy? This mixing of rural and urban votes deprives both voters fair representation from our elected officials.

I do not like this map. It obviously favors one party over the other here. Do better, folks.

I would like the legislature to use the maps that were proposed with the passing of Proposition 4.

This feels messy, but is better than a, b, or c.

I agree with many, this is not a good map and favors certain parties. The state legislature must follow the Prop 4 guidelines, and judicial instructions, to consider multiple fairness tests. No more gerrymandering.

Poorly conceived map. This represents an unfair map that fails to meet Prop 4. Better than the current map, but still very poorly drawn.

Maps 1 and 2 are so close there is no real difference Both Split cities that are so close to the same with the same issues that they need to be together - Lehi & Saratoga, American Fork - Pleasant Grove etc. Clearly perfect number totals mean more then people & community

This map has failed to meet guidelines of prop 4 and it continues to gerrymander SLC.

You have gerrymandered Salt Lake so that you can screw Democrats, and it is why I left the Republican Party. You are dishonest and covering for fascists.

I do not like this one at all.

Do I even have to say anything?

Same issues as map B- Cedar City and Saratoga Springs being in the same group is ridiculous, as is District 3 including Park City, Salt Lake, and the entire Eastern bench.

This map doesn't follow the prop 4 guidelines, and doesn't reflect utahs political balance. The map divides communities of interest, and I am unable to travel my daily routine without leaving and returning to my district. These are not compact districts, and fail to meet the guidelines of prop 4.

I struggle to see how one person could accurately represent the wants and needs of someone living in city center and gold hill at the same time. Those are locations with drastically different economies, lifestyles and interests.

I fully disagree with merging Urban and Rural voters together. One's US House Representative is meant to reflect that of their constituents. Urban and Rural Utahns do not reflect each other and have different needs, they should not be represented by the same Congressman. In full transparency, Utahns voted for an independent committee so the spirit and original letter of the law should require one of the maps from the UIRC, preferably UIRC Purple. Please as a lifelong Utahn your constituents have the right granted to us by the Utah Constitution to change our government. No more attempts to subvert our voice, select UIRC Purple.

split of Pleasant Grove city

This map clearly favors one party and doesn't give the urban population a fair shot to elect someone to represent the urban interests. Why should Salt Lake County be split like this? It doesn't make sense. Salt Lake County doesn't need to be slit this much to meet the population requirements of Prop 4. We deserve a map that was created by a nonpartisan group (IRC) that can be modified if needed to meet Prop 4. We in Salt Lake County deserve to have a district that incorporates most of the county into 1 county. It wouldn't be hard to split off a small portion for the county to meet the population deviation requirements and still allow the county to elect a rep that can truly represent the urban area in the county. I disagree that each district must have rural and urban areas - that's just an opinion or an excuse frankly, to dilute the urban vote. The reps elected by rural areas will represent them. We deserve a rep for us in the urban areas that can truly represent our voices and votes.

This map seems to really be mixing our rural and urban parts of the city meaning that neither will get very fair representation as our elected officials already have trouble traveling around.

I would prefer to see the map that was drawn by the Independent redistricting commission. These maps are not representative of who lives in the particular area. No representative can represent accurately all of the needs of the district. Looks to me like you all want to keep the status quo.

This split does not represent Utahns by lumping together rural areas with urban city dwellers. It is not representational and irrationally splits Salt Lake County.

Not good

After listening to Mr. Trende speak I had high hopes for a fair map but one of the things he kept emphasizing was keeping cities together and the use of boundary lines, such as rivers, roads etc. It seems clear to me that I-15 is a major boundary and yet every map put forth has over lap on that boundary. All the maps seem to overlap and split cities, counties and overlap the existing boundary of I-15. It was extremely distressing to me to hear the chair cut of Mr. Owens when he ask for some clarification of how certain data was used. I soon guess and verified that Mr. Owens was a Democrat and the chair was shutting him down due because of that. By the way I am a Republican but I don't feel that the best interests of my community are served by the boundaries in any of the five Republican maps. I'm not sure I'm a fan of the Democrat map either but it appears to be more representative of the needs of my area.

I oppose this maps because it divides Salt Lake County in an unwise way and again seeks to have all districts both urban and rural. We are, surprisingly, an urban state, with 70-80% of the population along the Wasatch Front. We should have at least two predominantly urban districts to keep communities of interest together.The idea of making all districts both urban and rural is contrary to our Founding Fathers' intent for Congress.The Federalist Papers describe the framers’ intention that each congressperson understand and represent not state-wide, but local interests. Federalist No. 52 and 56.

Why would a judge accept any gerrymandered map produced by the Republican legislature. They have lost all credibility for fairness and demonstrated they are not trustworthy. I think a far more fair approach would be allow the entire salt lake valley area to be one district, rather than carving it up to dilute its liberal influence.

AAAAAARGH-yet another split of SL county. I agree with other negative comments. Please use a map from independent redistricting panel, or one updated from theirs.

why would i be represented with the same people as southern utah. we don't have the same needs.

Rivers are bad boundaries. Voters have same landscape and issue on either side.

This map is horrible. It splits up all of Salt Lake County. It is NOT a map that represents Utah voters.

Districts should be based on the common interests of the constituents within them so that everyone receives fair representation in our federal government. State representatives, stop splitting Salt Lake City into multiple districts to dilute the voices of the people with whom you disagree. Yes, it's unfair to the predominantly liberal voters in SLC, but it's also harmful to constituents in other parts of the state whose concerns cannot be addressed in full when they are diluted by the needs of urban areas. South Salt Lake, Vernal, and Bluff do not have the same needs yet they are all in District 3 on this map. Similarly, Kanab and Provo do not have the same needs yet they are both in District 4. This is clearly gerrymandered for political gain rather than fair and equal representation.

This map is bad

This map splits Salt Lake City to dilute Democratic votes.

Map A is terrible. Absolutely 100% partisan gerrymandering to favor Republicans and disenfranchise urban voters.

SLC needs its own district. Please stop with the gerrymandering to keep the GOP in power.

option E is the best, stop splitting up urban salt lake county. residents have different interests than rural areas and those interests need to be represented (especially for minorities)

This map is hardly an improvement over the last one. Please do better listen to to voice of the people.

More of the same political gerrymandering. The gall of this legislature to avoid the will of the people!

I think this undermines the salt lake population. Its taxation without representation.

Salt Lake County does not need to share representation with the rural parts of the state. A donut map is the ideal, as some of the users on here have suggested. 3 districts on the Wasatch Front and one perimeter district that covers Logan, Moab, St. George, and Tooele.

Another completely horrible map. This mixes in urban and rural people and breaks up similar communities. What is wrong with you people. Democracy requires solid competition. Stop chopping up communities, stop mixing communities with different issues, and let everyone be represented. Look at the SB 200 maps!

Why is this map placing areas of Salt Lake County in a district that stretches across the eastern side of the state? Splitting SL County this way does not preserve neighborhood or community interests per Prop 4. This map should be removed from consideration.

Any map that splits Salt Lake County does not work for me. The Democrat, Independent, and Libertarian voters of Utah have been intentionally disenfranchised by the Republican majority in this state for far too long. It is time to listen to the will of the people of Utah!

This map breaks up Salt Lake County in ways that obviously benefit one party. There is no reason for Millcreek to not be paired with sugarhouse. As proved by Stuart Hepworth’s 2025SHNoSplit7 map, a version of this map is possible with less split counties/municipalities/communities. To be viable as an option it needs alterations.

Obvious corruption

I do not agree with splitting Salt Lake and Utah's major urban cities into separate districts. I know that there is a lot of partisan national attention given to this matter but we shouldn't view it in terms of red or blue districts. As a Salt Lake City county resident I will inherently have different concerns and issues than those who live in rural Utah. Why dilute urban Utah? This approach serves no one. Rural Utah should be represented by a representative who is fully focused on their issues just as much as urban Utah should have a representative that voices their concerns.

This just another partisan gerrymandered hack job on Salt Lake. Clearly the majority party members on the IC are utterly non-serious about creating fair maps. They need judicial supervision and cannot be trusted. Hard pass on this dumpster fire.

As a resident of Midvale, I don't believe this map would represent my city fairly as the district encompasses large amounts of rural Utah.

Option A is unacceptable and offensive! To echo what others have said, the five proposed maps fail to meet the standards established by Proposition 4 and the Independent Redistricting Commission Act. I urge you to follow both the letter and the spirit of the law: honor community boundaries, AVOID PARTISAN GERRYMANDERING, and incorporate the independent commission’s recommendations. Do your job, respect the law, and give Utah the fair maps we voted for.

This map remains Gerrymandered in Republican favor, splitting Salt Lake egregiously. This does not comply with Prop 4 and should be tossed.

Many people who live in Mt Green and Morgan County work at Hill AFB and have an economic interest in the 1st District. Also, we spent years producing and commenting on maps that have apparently been disregarded.

As a resident of American Fork, there is no reason to be splitting the cities of Lehi and Pleasant Grove like this. Such similar cities should all be in the same district. Similarly, carving up Salt Lake into three districts does not make logical sense either.

I do not appreciate your continued splitting of Salt Lake County. All of these maps remain gerrymandered to disadvantage Democrats in some way or a another. In the last several elections, Democrats have won at least 25% of the vote in every recent statewide election. This shows that at least a 1/4 of Utah voters are Democratic-leaning, and so one of our four congressional representatives should, by simple reasoning and math, should be over a Democratic majority area. Please stop dividing up northern Salt Lake County, and ensure that one of the districts, based around Park City and Salt Lake City, is a Democratic majority voting district. This isn't about getting seats in the house, this is doing what's right. Don't be Texas or California. Be Utah, be fair, and give Democrats a real chance.

The greater salt lake area should have its own district. Let the people have a voice. Genuinely consider if what this is doing is fair and allows everyone who live in and love this state to have their needs considered by their government. Ridiculous map, I absolutely disagree.

Absolutely ridiculous map. People in Salt Lake County deserve representation, and this map completely denies them that right. I think EVERYONE agrees that rural and urban Utah have different needs that should be individually considered, including people in the cities. This is the worst map of them all, if it is approved it will be an abuse of the democratic process.

Splitting Salt Lake County gives the Republican party an unfair advantage. This is still gerrymandered. Follow the maps made by the independent redistricting commission.

I am disappointed in this area. The southern Davis county community is very united. We may be separate cities (NSL, Bountiful, Woods Cross, etc.) but we all work together as one community, with shared schools (this area would all attend WXHS), a rec center, libraries, etc. We are ONE community. Intentionally drawing a little chunk of this community into another district shows ill intent, rather than common sense. We deserve to share representation with our neighbors. Elmininating the lower income area of our neighborhood feels like they are less-than, which is against the standards of our community and our constitution.

Splitting Salt Lake County is ridiculous. The five proposed maps clearly fail to meet the standards established by Proposition 4 and the Independent Redistricting Commission Act. Utah voters demanded transparency, fairness, and genuine public input when we passed Prop 4, and yet these maps disregard those requirements. The courts have already shown a willingness to hold the legislature accountable, and it is only a matter of time before these plans are overturned. Instead of wasting more taxpayer dollars defending indefensible maps, I urge you to follow both the letter and the spirit of the law: honor community boundaries, avoid partisan gerrymandering, and incorporate the independent commission’s recommendations. Utahns are watching. If you continue to ignore your constituents and the reforms they enacted, you risk not only judicial rejection but also electoral consequences. Do your job, respect the law, and give Utah the fair maps we voted for.

There is no reason to split Salt Lake County in half down the middle. The maps that were submitted by the independent redistricting committee were much more fair and allow for people to be represented be someone who actually lives in their area. There is no way someone from Logan could accurately represent someone from North Salt Lake and vice versa. The majority of SL County should be kept together since they are all in a similar area and live in a similar environment

I do not like the way you divided up my home city. Why is there a weird chunk in the middle that is in a completely different district. Please keep cities and communities together like we asked.

Keep neighborhoods together. This doesn't make sense

I listened to Rep. Pierucci and Sen. Sandall podcast episode about redrawing these maps. In it, they mentioned the first time they redrew the maps they worked tirelessly with local officials, and leaders to keep neighborhoods together. Not a single one of these maps keep urban Utah's neighborhoods together. While vernal is intact, urban voices are continually ignored and pushed aside. Do better and listen to the people.

Please abide by the parameters set forth in Proposition 4, use one of the maps from the Independent Commission, and honor the will of the people.

SLC leans left and every district on this proposed map leans right. This map is still gerrymandered and intended to make Democrats work harder than they should have to for representation in a Democratic region, thereby giving Republicans an unfair advantage.

Looking at the current maps I feel like I'm in the Wizard of Oz and being told to not look at the people behind the curtain. So what if a few cities have boundaries located in two counties. The number of voters is so minute it will not change the outcome. It does not justify carving up any county into four fragments. This is why we need the independent commission. To keep the Wizards with their imagined perils in check.

The map the legislature proposed does not remotely reflect the population of UT. This is a blatant attempt to retain power, rather than to have fair elections. I urge the legislature to adopt one of the maps that was submitted by the independent commission, which are still valid. Otherwise, at least go on record as indicating that you do not care about the will of the people, but rather instead wish to consolidate and solidify your power. It is disheartening to see so many of our elected leaders ignore the will of the people of the state of Utah. Do the right thing and allow a fair map to be used.

As others have mentioned, this map does not, in good faith, follow the Prop 4 guidelines. Please follow the will of your constituents and use one of the maps drawn up by the independent commission. Everyone should be able to be represented fairly in Utah.

Create a district that actually serves the needs of the urban and suburban region of Salt Lake County. Reassign Tooele and Southern Salt Lake County to the district that is further south. These communities have more in common culturally and economically. Replace with cities and communities that are in central Salt Lake County such as South Salt Lake, Murray, and Taylorsville.

Maps A, B and C are materially no different from the unconstitutional maps we have now - diluting the voting power of both rural and urban voters by putting unrelated communities into the same districts. It would make so much more sense to divide the state into a southern utah rural district, a northern utah rural district, and two (geographically) small urban districts.

This map does NOT comply with Proposition 4. The people of Utah voted on this matter. Please use the map drafted by the independent redistricting commission instead.

Unacceptable. Blatantly splitting Salt Lake County not only damages Urban Voters, but also hurts Rural Voters by forcing no ones voices to be fully heard

what in the gerrymandering is this????? Why is PG split? Why is SLC split? Who does this? This isn't what the Judge said to do. Create REAL fair maps, not this self serving GARBAGE.

Map Option A: This map violates the law by not keeping counties whole, not keeping cities whole, they are not compact districts, it does not preserve neighborhoods of interest, they are not contiguous districts, and they are gerrymandered. We need to have a non-partisan independent group create new maps, not an out of state “expert”.

This map does not follow all of the rules laid out in Proposition 4. There are multiple cities and counties that have been divided when they should be kept together, the districts are sprawling, how can American Fork be in the same District as the bottom right corner of the state. Dr Trende used Political Data to draw these maps, which goes against the Requirements of Prop 4.

The five proposed maps clearly fail to meet the standards established by Proposition 4 and the Independent Redistricting Commission Act. Utah voters demanded transparency, fairness, and genuine public input when we passed Prop 4, and yet these maps disregard those requirements. The courts have already shown a willingness to hold the legislature accountable, and it is only a matter of time before these plans are overturned. Instead of wasting more taxpayer dollars defending indefensible maps, I urge you to follow both the letter and the spirit of the law: honor community boundaries, avoid partisan gerrymandering, and incorporate the independent commission’s recommendations. Utahns are watching. If you continue to ignore your constituents and the reforms they enacted, you risk not only judicial rejection but also electoral consequences. Do your job, respect the law, and give Utah the fair maps we voted for.

Please listen to the constituents! Stop dividing us in more ways than one. It is not ethical to divide cities and counties unfairly. We can see what you are doing, and it is flat out WRONG! This is unacceptable and disgraceful. All Utah voters should matter. This is not a good look for you. If one has to play dirty to win, they should not win. All of Utah deserves to have their vote count fair and square. Why is this too much to ask?

At least Salt Lake City is intact, but there shouldn't be a need to split both SLCo and UTCo into two sections each.

Pairing large urban centers with far-flung rural areas doesn’t strengthen representation. This practice dilutes the votes of both groups, leaving all of us less able to elect leaders who understand our issues.

I agree with detailed comments by Jackson Lewis. Look at the map 2025SHNOSPLIT6 submitted by Stuart Hepworth yesterday. It represents all Utahns and addresses Prop 4 criteria much better than this map.

The Independent Redistricting Committee presented you with much better maps than what has currently been submitted. Every map breaks apart Salt Lake County while it is so blaringly obvious that you try and keep Utah County together as much as possible. It is time to realize that there are people in this state who want AND deserve representation by someone with the same values.

This map is unacceptable. The Utah Legislature continues to try to worm its way out of fair voting districts in accordance with Prop 4. Cities should not be divided; for that matter, neither should counties. Stop playing dirty.

This map is unacceptable. The Utah Legislature continues to try to worm its way out of fair voting districts in accordance with Prop 4. Cities should not be divided; for that matter, neither should counties. Stop playing dirty.

I voted for proposition 4 originally and the maps required by this had 8 rules. Your new maps fail on all counts and as directed by the Utah Judiciary. You are failing at your job once again. Respect the will of the people and the committee we voted for to delineate the districts.

There is no reason that Salt Lake county should be split in half, the only reason one would look to do this would be to dilute the voice of the people in this region who all share a more similar value set and common needs than the people found in rural Utah. It is a disservice to both Salt Lake county representatives and rural Utahns who are finding their own perspectives now diluted within representation.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, this map (and the other four proposed) are just another reiteration of the same gerrymandered pizza pie we currently have. I have an anthropology degree, a certificate/experience in GIS (geographic information systems), and I've travelled all around the state for work. Here are some notes I have - given my experience - for future reference: -There should be one district that is exclusively Salt Lake County. SL County is 1/3 of the state's population and has shared interests and culture so most of it shouldn't be grouped with rural Utah -Rural Utah (particularly Central and Southern) should be contained in one district. People in Ephraim and Cedar City let's say (picked those two since my grandparents are from there) have more in common with each other economically, culturally, and politically than they do with Salt Lake County. This is effectively disenfranchising rural voters. -Similar to the previous point, all four representatives could (and most likely would) live on the Wasatch Front. Around 1 million residents of Utah don't. There should be representation for people that don't live along the Wasatch Front. - There's a good chance Utah could gain a seat after the next census. This should be kept in mind so that when redistricting needs to happen again, the changes won't be too drastic. -For a better idea of how to balance the urban/rural divide, please look at the congressional maps of Nevada, Nebraska, Virginia, and Washington. -Neighborhoods (primarily in Salt Lake County) shouldn't be divided in weird ways to make sure that the population is exactly even. The voting population is different (and unbalanced) from the overall population anyways and people move in and out all the time. A deviation of a few hundred isn't the end of the world. (Plus these maps are likely based on the 2020 census, and Utah has seen a lot of growth and population change since then). - Cache Valley should be with the rest of Northern Utah. This map is fine for District 1 but others have it sprawled all over the state. Please listen to your constituents and stop trying to redefine the language in Prop 4 so that it suits your needs. Utah could be the leading example and prime model of fair redistricting for the rest of the country, especially given how divisive everything is right now and how many states are starting to engage in a redistricting "war". We should be better than other states. More than ever, we need fairness and bipartsanship in this country and state. Let's do that by listening to the people and making better maps instead of dragging our heels kicking and screaming at change.

Stop splitting West Valley in half. Minimize the division of municipalities and counties across different districts, prioritizing cities over counties. Preserve communities: Preserve traditional neighborhoods and local communities of interest.

Please stop splitting up SL County, use the county lines if you really want to split up the Utah valley and Salt Lake Valley. Or better yet, use the maps that were already made and met the proposition 4 standards.

If SL County population is too large to fit in one district why is it split in half stretching to either state border? A fair split would fit as much of SLC in a single district as possible, and some of the county could be combined with another district

Prop 4 was passed to give residents of Utah fair representation. I understand that Salt Lake County's population is too large to be contained in a single district, but maps A, B, and C are clearly designed to split that community and deny them representation - just as our current congressional maps do. Maps D and E are slightly better, but still lump in communities in the Salt Lake Valley with Mexican Hat and St George -- an unacceptable split of communities of interest. The maps drawn by the IRC were far more fairly drawn. I understand the claim that these are no longer valid, but that is because the legislature waited years in an attempt to supersede the will of the people. Those maps need to be the basis for any new map put forth, rather than wasting taxpayer dollars hiring a single expert hand picked by the legislature to draw maps that continue to split our communities apart.

As a constituent living in Rose Park - this map does not reflect my community and splits the community I share. I do not share the same interests or have the same needs as residents in rural Utah and communities should be kept together and given equal representation by having their own districts and their own rep.

The largest "community of interest" in Utah is Salt Lake County. While its population is too large to be accommodated in a single congressional district, a large portion of it could constitute a district. SL County residents share a common airshed and watershed whose health is influenced by federal policies and regulations. Our largest community of interest deserves to have a voice in Congress. I urge you to select one of the maps submitted to you by the Independent Redistricting Committee that recognized the importance of keeping the majority of SL Co in one district. Thank you.

This map is very close to the 2021 enacted map with significant Republican advantage. Respect the voters choice and use the maps created by the independent commission.

All of these maps are still the majority's way of gerrymandering the state to their advantage and totally disregards the intent of Proposition 4 which we citizens passed by a clear majority. These maps should all be disregarded by the court and one of the proposed maps by the independent redistricting committee should be approved.

This division is unacceptable. It splits SLC communities. Use the maps from the independent committee.

Please use the maps generated by the 3rd party commission, as we voted for. It's your job to fight for what the people voted for as our representatives.

Clearly, the five maps submitted by the Republicans are meant to defuse my vote amongst a sea of voters I disagree with. It is an intentional move to lock in Republican leadership for years to come because they don't have policies that work for the majority of people they represent. All they ever do is refer to people that don't agree with them as "liberal" but I would love to have a discussion with them as to just how conservative I am and have lived my life with respect to the TRUE definition of the word! It will never happen because they have changed the meaning of "words" to favor them. Just use the map drawn up by the independent group.

Why is South Salt Lake being grouped with Moab, instead of the other municipalities nearby that it actually has similarities?

None of these are acceptable. Use the Independent Commission that we voted for to avoid gerrymandering, which as a legislature, you are still doing.

I hate all of these unfair gerrymandered maps! Stop splitting up Salt Lake communities and let us have a voice! Throw all of these out and use one of the maps from the Independent Committee!!!!

As a voter in Utah County, I support Proposition 4 and expect our representatives to uphold what we voted for, including using the maps drawn by the Utah Independent Commission UIRC.

As a voter in Utah County, I support Proposition 4 and expect our representatives to uphold what we voted for, including using the maps drawn by the Utah Independent Commission UIRC.

This is not a good map. The state legislature must follow the Prop 4 guidelines, and judicial instructions, to consider multiple fairness tests, not just the partisan symmetry test, to ensure each voter is heard, regardless of their politics. We want democracy, not gerrymandered autocracy.

I am not a fan of this version. It splits up the urban area too much.

Use maps drawn up by the independent commission! The committee the Legislature appointed is overwhelmingly Republican. Let the people of this state - who are not Republican - have a voice. The Legislative majority in this state needs to back off of its unrelenting efforts to retain power despite the changing demographics of this state.

Salt lake county and Utah county need to be districts 1 and 2 then the other two districts can go on north and south of the center counties of the state with 4 districts I feel this gives every one the representation from their perspective areas, and gives the voters the ability to hold them accountable.

I do not like any of these maps, I do not have the same issues as a voter in Dugway, or Clover, or Vernon, we in the city need representation from within our cities and counties. And those rural areas need the same stop playing politics use the independent redistricting commission to draw fair maps for all.

- [ ] This map clearly divides communities. For example, as someone living near downtown Salt Lake, I have much more in common with nearby neighborhoods in South Salt Lake than Tooele and the Nevada border. They are not compact. The border between district 2 and 3 looks like it was scribbled by a (very partisan) child to keep incumbent Rep. Celeste Maloy in office. Please use the valid maps created by the Utah Independent Redistricting Commission.

All of these maps accomplish the same as the current ones do silence the minority and cause apathy to those whom are in the middle or left of center so they wont participate.

The voters of Utah voted for Prop 4 in 2018--STOP changing it, and follow what the voters asked for. Please use the maps from the original Utah Ind. Commission. It's what we voted for, not bogus maps like this.

Why does this map split up communities like this? Provo getting divided from parts of Orem and Lindon doesn't make sense--these communities are so intertwined. I want a representative who is from my community and who understands our needs. This map has my rep (as a Provo resident) also repping St George and all kinds of rural Utah communities--it's silly. Make is make sense. Keep counties together. I get Salt Lake County not staying together bc of size, but this split is not logical.

This mornings 9/22/2025 redistricting legislative session opened with a proposal of rewriting Proposition 4 and is a clear example of why we the citizens of Utah voted for and passed Proposition 4 in 2018. All of the current options for the four Congressional Districts you have given us to choose from are in violation of the Statewide Initiative -- Proposition 4, Nov. 6, 2018. There are good and valid maps from the original Utah Independent Commission UIRC, use them. Stop defying the Utah Constitution and the State laws you have sworn to uphold when you were elected. Stop carving up Salt Lake County, we deserve a fair opportunity to choose our elected Federal Representative(s).

This looks like they divided the counties until they got to SLC then divided it up to make the remaining changes. These politicians really must hate Utahns.

Try again with Prop 4 as your guide. We know you can do it!

The lines dividing my community (Millcreek) as well as all of the other communities in South Salt Lake County and northern Utah County make no sense. The lines divide up dozens of cities and town instead of moving entire towns or cities into each district. This map violates the principles of Proposition 4.

I live in North Salt Lake, but this is clearly a gerrymandered map, and so are all of the others (some worse than others). Just use the map put forward by the independent commission years ago, I've had enough of you trying to dilute people's vote.

Utah County shouldn't be split up like this. American Fork should be part of the same district as Pleasant Grove and the neighboring towns. we are all suburban areas with lots of development. Our needs are going to be all relevant to each other.

This map looks far too much like the current map. The greater Salt Lake Area should have it's own district, as much as that's possible. In general maps should be drawn to ensure competitive districts, not uncompetitive ones. That ensures legislators who are more responsive and willing to compromise.

I lived in SL County for 34 years. I was partially represented there. I moved to Washington County where I have 0 say on anything and am stuck with a rep that tells me all the wonderful things she is doing without once responding to my direct questions. I could establish residency in Garfield County where I have another home, but that would change nothing. My only way of participating politically, is funding deserving candidates in other states, but that is all. I looked at the "new", "enhanced", "enriched" district maps, and they all split, cannibalize SL County to continue neutralizing Democrats. It is a blatant show of disrespect for Utahns overall. I hope the court sees through this game legislators, mainly Republicans, are playing. Independents may have to run candidates and make a difference.

Options A and B are the current map with different makeup and a wig. Lumping rural residents in with the Wasatch Front under all but options D/kinda E is no more fair to them than it is to the urban residents; literally no one wins here except legislators. And even they are left trying to "represent" far more mutually exclusive interests than would be the case under sane districts.

This map is an abomination. Another map that splits Salt Lake County into multiple districts. The focus needs to be on keeping communities of interest together rather than having exactly the same number of people in each district. This looks so much like the current maps we have that were deemed unconstitutional.

This map clearly is designed to split the SLC community and dilute the vote of like minded community.

Balancing urban and rural areas should not be the legislatures priority. The focus should be preserving communities with shared needs, interests, and communities. None of your maps prioritize this.

Salt Lake County has very little in common with the central west Utah area. The central west has far more interest in public land compared to the avenues with more interest in city development. The county of Salt Lake needs to have a dedicated district. Anything dividing the most populate area is unfair to the state of Utah.

Let the valley have representation! It's a shame we can't let groups who have similar needs be heard with even one representative and instead split them up and dilute their voices.

Virtually every one of these maps split the West side of Salt Lake County the same. Go back to the maps the independent committee designed.

There is no "natural boundary" between district 2 & 3. This looks horrible. Use a street at least I-80 or I-15 or any other straight road none of this!

I have to wonder why the maps are all so similar. All of them look like they were created using the same approach. I think we should take alternative designs into account if we're not just going to go with the map from the Independent Redistricting commission. Here is a quick example I made of a map that divides the state into 4 equal populations, and meets all the criteria for a redistricting map. I would love to see maps that weren't just created by the Legislature, as they have proved that they can't be trusted. https://districtr.org/plan/318878

Still purposely dividing the potential opposition vote. Use the maps created and approved by the independent districting committee. It is what Utah voters decided needed to be done and the maps already exist.

Use the maps created and approved by the independent districting committee. It is what Utah voters decided needed to be done and the maps already exist.

Splitting Salt Lake county in this manner maximizes the number of voters without representation. It additionally violated Proposition 4 by splitting counties more than 2 times with clear cherrypicking of neighborhoods.

Why would the lines of the district not follow straighter lines? Why does it intersect the city and not go around its perimeter? This looks like another attempt at gerrymandering.

This is my property, I don't see why my property should be at the edge of the district - for example, I live in Murray's boundaries, but my zip code is Taylorsville. I feel like I would be better represented if Salt Lake County wasn't split up this way.

Is there a reason Morgan and San Juan counties are in the same district? What is uniting these communities verses those of neighboring counties?

This is the worst map All of these maps still are in opposition of what the people voted for in Proposition 4, Nov. 6, 2018. All five of the maps provided for public comment are in violation of the Statewide Initiative -- The Utah Independent Commission UIRC gave us maps that meet all the requirements of the lawsuit and reflect the political balance in Utah. We deserve a fair opportunity to choose our elected Federal Representative(s).

Millcreek should not be in the same district as Monticello and Bluff

Please use the UIRC maps. This is what Proposition 4 intended.

This looks like the same map. Why not use the Independent Redistricting Committee Maps? Why do you split up SL County so much? Why does Cedar City have the same rep as parts of salt lake, despite the two having wildly different needs? Why is Southern Utah not on it's own?

I'm having a hard time understanding how this map is any less gerrymandered than the current maps. SLCo is split in 2 and there is a district that includes SLC, Park City, and Grand County? This is not what we voted for.

This map unnecessarily splits up SL county. Why are we not using the maps that were originally drawn by the independent redistricting committee in 2021? What is the justification for this new map, when we were already given options that voters voted for and approved of?

Salt Lake City should not be included in a district with western suburban fringes and Toole County. This does not preserve neighborhood & community interests.

Keep Utah County together. This seems to be only an attempt to water down other urban areas votes with more conservative voters who live in an entirely different county.

This map is just as gerrymandered as the current map and unacceptable. Please use the Independent Redistricting Committee maps.

I was just poking around online and I stumbled into some maps that were drawn back in 2021 by a group called the independent redistricting commission. Our representatives should have a look because those maps look way better than these do!

These people in this triangle between center, I-15, and Main could not possibly be represented fairly. They should be in the district with everyone else in the city.

The majority of this area in NSL that is being split is manufacturing, yes. It is more okay to have it be part of another district. But why is there a tiny little bit of population that is taken out in the triangle between main, center, and I-15? Those people could not POSSIBLY be represented fairly. Use the maps proposed by the commission that should have been used years ago.

The Independent Redistricting Commission recommended maps based on the same data as you're using, right? You should be using those maps instead of the awful maps you have proposed. We voted for them because they're independent in a way you can never be.

This map seems designed to explicitly reduce the influence of people who live in Salt Lake County.

Gerrymandered

Glad to see that Tooele not looped in with Saint George

Gerrymandered here

In what world is a random tiny road on one side of Bangeter highway that moves to the other side a "Natural barrier". the independent commission came up with several maps that were compliant with Prop 4 and not this ridiculous splitting the highest population center in the State into several different districts.

STOP TRYING TO SPLIT SALT LAKE VALLEY! Our communities deserve to have our opinions heard without being drowned out bully people out side them.

You do not get to split West valley. That is unacceptable we deserve our say as a community

This map is an abomination. It creates unnatural boundaries that were obviously created for partisan reasons. It does not remotely create new fair boundaries. It creates a Republican Gerrymandered map that is simply less egregious than before. Why not follow the map created by the independent commission?

This chunk taken out of Utah county seems unnatural, I find it hard to believe that there isn't a better way to draw this map that doesn't make strange carve outs like this

I understand that the population of Salt Lake County is too large for the entire county to fit into one district, meaning the county will have to be split at least once - what I don't understand is why the split in this map follows such an unnatural snaking line, carving out pieces of cities that should be kept together. I think it would make more sense and be more compliant with prop 4 if the boundary followed existing city boundaries.

This map is just as gerrymandered as the current map and unacceptable. Please use the Independent Redistricting Committee maps.

This map is just as gerrymandered as the current map and unacceptable. Please use the Independent Redistricting Committee maps.

This shouldn't be allowed.

This is unacceptable. Definitely gerrymandered. Using the map(s) that were proposed by the Independent Redistricting Committee would solve the problem.

Please consider this alternative map (proposal 3) that much more fairly and accurately represents the communities that live in Utah.

Please consider this alternative map (proposal 2) that much more fairly and accurately represents the communities that live in Utah.

Please consider this alternative map (proposal 1) that much more fairly and accurately represent the communities that live in Utah.

Map A is absolutely unacceptable. It is just as gerrymandered as the current map. Use the Independent Redistricting Committee maps. It's what the people of Utah want.

This is almost as gerrymandered as the existing map. Why not use the maps suggested by the non-partisan commission?

The UIRC maps did a better job avoiding arbitrarily diluting the urban/suburban communities of interest closer to Salt Lake into the rural/suburban communities of interest of Box Elder, Tooele, Cache, Weber, and Morgan counties. Please stick with the UIRC maps.

The UIRC maps did a better job avoiding arbitrarily diluting the urban/suburban communities of interest closer to Salt Lake into the rural/suburban communities of interest of Box Elder, Tooele, Cache, Weber, and Morgan counties. Please stick with the UIRC maps.

Salt Lake Valley’s demographics are not considered appropriately. Choose the independent maps before attempting this.

Use the existing fair maps, stop trying to get the most gerrymander you can out of this state.

Splitting West Valley into two districts is a clear attempt to disenfranchise communities of color.

This should be allowed.

Explain to me how Salt Lake City shares a stronger community of interest with Toelle than it does with Millcreek and Sandy. The very idea is absurd.

The district 2 and 3 split in Salt Lake County divides communities of interest and doesn't follow any natural geographic features. Please propose the existing UIRC maps.

If you want to know what follows the 8 Rules you're supposed to be following for the redistricting, we have created those district maps for you. Use them.

You have split the county needlessly and split communities of interest.

Eagle Mountain should ideally not be in the same district as the bench of Utah County and would be in a similar district as Tooele, Nephi, and Payson

Splitting Tooele from other eastern Wasatch Front commuter suburbs such as Nephi and Payson deprives this community of interest of federal representation

What shared interests do Vernal, and Midvale, Holladay, WVC, and Lehi have??

really??????? this is outrageous

Salt Lake City with the South West portion of SLCO not even including most of WVC to create a commuter district with tooele is so uninspired, and again combines nonsensical communities into a district.

This county split is ridiculous

This is an egregious split of West Valley City

Please just use the maps from the UIRC, the work is already done and it's a lot fairer than this map. The problems with our current maps are still present here: Salt Lake and Utah Counties are arbitrarily divided and then lumped into rural areas, so any representative elected will not be able to adequately represent the distinct needs and interests of all their constituents.