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 show ill intent, rather than common sense. We deserve to shared representation with our neighbors. Elimininating the lower income area of our community feels like they are less-than, which is against the standards of our community.

This map does not keep cities whole, keep counties whole, have compact districts, have contiguous districts, or preserve neighborhoods and communities of interest.

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.

I do not like the way you split up my city. One of the large goals of proposition 4 was to keep communities together. This map splits up my community in ways that do not make any sense. Please keep North Salt Lake whole. We aren't even a large city, so I have no idea why this is needed. It makes no sense and makes me question your motives.

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 affected if those cities are split is so minute it will not change the outcome of a district. 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.

Prop 4 has specific criteria on which to judge these maps. This map does not follow natural boundaries, nor keep communities together. Instead, it still provides for districts that incorporate both urban and rural communities, who have different needs and priorities.

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.

Respect the choice of your constituency. Use a map that isn't blatantly disregarding the law as voted for by the citizens of Utah. thanks.

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.

Map Option B: 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 St George, the needs of those two towns are completely different. 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.

This one is okay, but again, it shouldn't be necessary to bisect both SLCo and UTCo. This map violates rules 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7 of Proposition 4, which is law.

The proposed boundaries combine parts of the state that have nothing in common. People in these regions face very different challenges, and forcing them into one district ensures that neither side’s needs are properly represented It is unclear how South Provo is a community of interest with Moab, but not with Orem? Or that Taylorsville is a community of interest with Coalville, but not Kearns?

I agree with detailed comments by Jackson Lewis and prefer the map 2025SHNOSPLIT6 submitted by Stuart Hepworth yesterday. It meets the 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 cuts up provo in weird ways that other maps don't, along with other issues many have raised.

This map is unacceptable. The Utah Legislature continues to try to worm its way out of fair voting districts in accordance with Prop 4. Salt Lake City and its outlying communities should not be divided; With this map, I am still stuck in District 4 along with St George. Stop it, already.

This map AGAIN, now 3rd out 5 maps that does this, splits Salt Lake county in half. There is no way that carving out half of the county to place towards 2 different districts will result in fair and accurate representation of the individuals who live in this region. Either create substantially fair maps, or use the maps offered by the UIRC please.

This is just another version of the weird gerrymandered pizza pie that is our current congressional districting map. Rural Utah (particularly Central/Southern) should be all together in its own district. People in Ephraim and Cedar City (I picked those two since my grandparents were from there) generally have more in common politically and culturally than either do with Salt Lake County. Also, this map has a ton of weird inclusions and neighborhood divides between districts 2 and 4 for the sake of numerical balance, I suppose? Keep those neighborhoods together. A deviation of a few hundred isn't the end of the world. As I mentioned before, there should be one district that is exclusively Salt Lake County due to it making up around 1/3 of the state population. Look up congressional maps of Nebraska, Virginia, Nevada, and Washington for a better idea of how to best deal with urban/rural population divide.

Again, why am I, a SL county resident, in the same district as the east half of the state? Why not just use the county boarders already in place and keep the SL county in one district?

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

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.

Why would Milcreek be aligned with the entire South-East of the state, instead of the adjacent municipalities? Surely, they have more in common with Sugar House than Moab. Anyone with a decent understanding of Utah and who is operating in good faith would recognize that.

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.

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 dislike this option just as much as Option A.

I live in Olympus Cove and I should not be in the same district as Blanding. As nice as folks are in Blanding, our issues are completely different. 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.

As is the case with Option A, this map intentionally divides communities of interest and is not compact. The northern part of Salt Lake County should be all one district. Please uphold our state laws and use the fair maps drawn by the Utah Independent Redistricting Commission.

All of the current options for the four Congressional Districts 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 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.

Same old story. Carve up SLCo for a mix of rural and urban voters. What happened to keeping communities of interest together? That counts for everywhere except the Salt Lake Valley, I guess.

I would like to echo what many of the commenters made in the public hearing. If you cannot use the maps by the IRC, then we need an new independent committee needs to be made not use maps from just 1 person.

This is about as bad as the current map. If the purpose is to ensure that Utahns are heard, this map does the exact opposite, much like most of the other proposed maps.

Please don't split Provo. It doesn't make any sense at all. It's irresponsible. Keep cities in one district. I'd rather have population numbers slightly off than be in a different district than people a few streets north of me.

I know you're getting a lot of Salt Lake County resident comments. As a Utah County and Provo resident, this is the only map I strongly dislike. It puts me and my close neighbors into two different districts and I think it divides Utah County in unhelpful ways.

Kearns and Taylorsville have more in common than reflected on this map.

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 as you divide up the urban areas in every map.

The County of SLC has far more in common with each other and similar interests compared to the east and west portions of district 2 and 3. Splitting Salt Lake county is needed due to the significant population, but salt lake county must have its own district.

Please j use the UIRC maps. Clearly you guys are not good at following instructions.

Like the current districts, this map carves up Millcreek, putting other members of my family who live nearby into a different district. This does not meet the criterion of keeping communities of interest together. I much prefer the maps from the independent committee.

the Salt lake area should not be divided so harshly. This map, same as the previous option A, tries to separate SLC neighborhoods and dilute their voices. This map is not good.

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.

This map splits up Salt Lake County too much and incorporates Cottonwood Heights into sections of the state with which we have no affiliation.

I live here and I feel like this area shares more in common with SLC than Park City. I don't see why my neighborhood wouldn't be in the main SLC district.

This map is hugely problematic, for the majority of the population in Utah. The map splits up salt lake county based on 'fair population numbers' but that's a horrible excuse. This is Partisan Gerrymandering at its finest - all of these maps A through E, do not give proper representation to the constituents of Utah. Use the independent maps drawn by the Independent Redistricting Committee. The current legislations excuse after excuse is clear and evident by their over-explaination of literally everything in their meeting today. Represent Utah fairly!!!

This is another one of the terrible maps. 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 Blanding and Bluff

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

Why is Cedar City and Southern Utah being lumped in with Provo? Having lived in both, they have different needs and different lifestyles. They should be in separate districts.

Once again, this map unnecessarily splits up SL County. Are we not allowed to have at least one competitive district in this state? Why are we not using the maps that were already created in 2021 by an independent redistricting committee? Those maps were much more fair.

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

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

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

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 is a weird map, use natural barriers instead of arbitrary areas

This is almost as bad as the map that the court struck down. Prop 4 had a commission that made several maps that met the criteria and already had public comment. The legislature just threw those out. How is it that those aren't the only maps that they are allowed to vote on? this doesn't follow natural barriers or attempt to keep communities of interest together. clearly violating Prop 4.

We already had an independent commission make maps stop reinventing the wheel with these weirdly unfocused. By spreading representation we give politicians a convenient excuse to ignore any voice they choose. Focused representation is true representation. This splitting of provo is aggregious

This map looks and feels wrong. none of these districts except district 4 seem to have any sort of focus in their constituents. which means politicians can conveniently ignore any oppinion they don't like. the valley is awkwardly chopped up and frankly I find this map discusting.

Options A, B, and C each split up North Salt Lake, where we live. I know there is a lot to ballance, but it would be great to see options that did not split up cities OR that split along roadways.

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

Use the map(s) that were proposed by the Independent Redistricting Committee. These maps don’t accomplish the stated goals.

Why are you splitting Provo? Just use the maps the independent redistricting commission made.

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

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

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

This map splits the Sunset, Lakewood, East Bay, Maeser, and Foothills neighborhoods of Provo along a very jagged, stair-step line. The only reason to make such hash out of Provo's communities of interest is to achieve a population deviation of 0 people--which is ridiculous because the numbers are almost six years old at this point! We know the population has changed, so sticking to a 0-person deviation is worse then pointless; it's counterproductive because it gives us maps like this one. It is better to have a district that is slightly off on the deviation if it will keep cities and neighborhoods together--that's why we have an allowable deviation!

This looks like it accomplishes little to have Salt Lake Valley have meaningful representation. Go back to the Independent Commission's maps. What is wrong with them?

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.

Box Elder and Tooelehave common needs.

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

Why is 2 awkwardly hooking into four in West Jordan? This makes no sense.

Congressional districts should not end in somebody's backyard. They should follow natural borders: major streets, rivers, county lines, etc.

Why is the brickyard neighborhood in a separate enclave from the rest of Millcreek?

Sanpete County and Sevier counties should not be split as they create a shared community of interest of towns

Santaquin and Payson should not be split apart

These cuts along the highway are less than ideal, roads do not create shared communities of interest, people and economies do. This area should not be split this way

awful splitting of Provo City

SLC should be kept with its Eastern Bench Suburbs and WVC, not cut down to Bluffdale and into Tooele

Move SLC into the Second district and take out the southern Utah County portion to make it fit

Why is this part of Utah county involved with eastern SLCO

Provo should not be split like this into two districts.

Please just use the maps from the UIRC, the work is already done and it's a lot fairer than this map. This is worse than Option A in terms of respecting county lines and keeping communities together. District 1 seems to be pretty fair but the rest of the districts are arbitrarily divided. Salt Lake county is split in half still, and district 2 covers half of Salt Lake before getting cut off by district 3 and then beginning again to grab a bit of southern Utah county and then taking the eastern half of the state, and this lumps people with very different interests together. Then northern Utah county is lumped in with all of southern Utah, which again lumps very different groups together.