This map does not keep cities whole, keep counties whole, have compact districts, have contiguous districts, or preserve neighborhoods and communities of interest. Having people from Millcreek and Woodland Terrace grouped with Tooele and Ipabah 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.

This map divides the population above Wasatch Drive that attend junior high and high school from their Millcreek neighbors that attend the same schools. Also, there are several churches on the south side of 3900 south whose congregations would be divided between 2 districts (as they currently are)

This makes absolutely no sense. Why are you taking a random street in a suburban neighborhood and putting in a separate district? There is no clear reason or purpose for this. Keep North Salt Lake whole.

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 by that is so minute it will not change the outcome of a district. Salt Lake County is the only county that has a population large enough to be divided. The small number of households does not justify carving it up into four fragments. This is why we need to use the maps drawn by the independent commission. All five options we have to choose from in this exercise do not come close to meeting Proposition 4 standards. We need to keep the Wizards with their imagined perils in check. Please just use the redistricting maps given to the legislature by the independent commission in 2021 they were good well thought out maps. These aren't fit for butt wipe.

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.

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.

Please regard the will of your constituency and allow for the use of one of the independent commission maps. Thanks.

While this one does the best of keeping districts in contiguous areas (SLCo must be split in some way because of its population size), it's still very similar to the pizza pie we've got right now- diluting the voting power of both rural and urban voters by putting unrelated communities into the same districts.

Until most of Salt Lake county comprises one of the congressional districts, you disenfranchise a half million people. But the Legislature doesn't want to have all the people represented, just the ones who vote Republican.

Map Option C: 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.

Salt Lake and Utah Counties deserve to remain intact as much as possible. These boundaries combine parts of the state that have nothing in common.

Jackson Lewis has good detailed comments for correcting this map. A better map that represents all Utahns and meets Prop 4 criteria is 2025SHNOSPLIT6 submitted by Stuart Hepworth yesterday.

his is what you did after the last census... took public comment, asked citizens to provide maps and then went NO here is our highly gerrymandered districts, patted yourself on the back and told yourself that it is the legislature that is charge... even if that means you cheated. 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 even more ridiculous that the first ones. How to slice and dice Salt Lake County into as many pieces as possible. No. No. And NO!

This map splits Salt Lake county again, there is no reason that the majority of Salt Lake county should not be included in its own district,

While this is one of the better District 1s of the five proposed maps, there should be at least one district that is entirely Salt Lake County. SL County will need to be divided anyways because of its size, but it makes no sense to put it with rural Utah counties on the other side of the state (unless you're trying to gerrymander to dilute the urban/suburban SLC vote).

I live in Salt Lake County, why would I be in the same district as half of Utah? And why would my neighbors on the other side of 1300 S be suddenly in another district? Make it make sense.

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.

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.

Again, Salt Lake County split. South Jordan and Sandy have more in common than with Wendover and Moab respectively. Poorly designed map that splits the county.

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.

This map separates Millcreek and Salt Lake City, which is a massive issue. I agree that Provo and Orem should be placed in the same district, because constituents in each city generally have the same needs. For this same reason, there is no reason why Millcreek and Salt Lake City should not be put together.

Thus far all the options separate Millcreek from Salt Lake City. I believe these communities have more in common than they do with the rest of their Congressional Districts.

Horrible map! I live in Olympus Cove and like now, I would be in a different district from my neighbors! I know this is hard, Republican legislators from safe districts, but STOP splitting communities! The cities should be represented by one Congressman. I know that is a tough pill for you to swallow because Salt Lake City should be ONE district. People who live in communities around Salt Lake City should not be lumped with rural areas. This is plain common sense. 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.

This map is blatant gerrymandering. To pretend that Salt Lake City shares community concerns with Southern Utah (~5 hours away) over Millcreek (~10 min away) is absurd. One full district should be contained within Salt Lake County. This map is clearly drawn to protect incumbents

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).

Don't Split Davis County as shown in Map C. Box Elder, Cache, Rich, Weber and Davis = to 818,232. Just remove a couple of precincts from Davis County and you are with 4.

The final map should respect City Boundaries in Salt Lake County. Map C spits too many cities in SL County: Riverton, Bluffdale, South Jordan, Millcreek are carved up which does not meet the standards set out. Understanding Salt Lake County needs to be split is not a justification for carving up cities.

It's so clear that this committee is still attempting to gerrymander this state. These boundaries do not make sense, you are just trying to split the vote to continue with an unbalanced representation of Utah in congress. Stop and listen to your constituents- we voted on it!

What on earth is going on with District 3?! I'm originally from Vernal. Salt Lake City and the Uinta Basin do not by any stretch of the imagination have the same community concerns.

Just another way of carving up and diluting the Greater Salt Lake City area. We should have our own district to the greatest degree possible, because our interests are different that people in other parts of the state. Districts should also be drawn to be as competitive as possible. Reps from competitive districts are more responsive and more likely to compromise.

D and E look like much better maps, while this C map looks particularly bad about splitting a wide swath of the salt urban sprawl. I echo what many have said that it is a corrupt and bad goal in conflict with proposition 4 to be prioritizing mixing urban and rural communities in districts over the priorities specifically enumerated by prop 4, "(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." in fact that goal runs directly against (c) by forcing geographic spread so that urban areas that could be part of more compact districts are pulled apart (contrary to e and f) to maintain this goal that serves to bias the districts for one party. Please, strive to be honest in your dealings here, and do your job: represent the will of the people, and follow prop 4 in truth; don't continue to try and twist it to maintain the gerrymander

SLC is still split up, and we still have communities with very different interests in the same district. SLC doesn't have much in common with the rural areas so let's put rural together with rural, and keep as much as SL county together as possible.

Map C might be the worst of them all. SLC, Sandy, and Draper are segregated from the rest of the SL Valley and in the same district as Blanding and Southeast Utah? How is that keeping communities of interest together?

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.

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 south east corner of Utah has nothing in common with Salt Lake County. They are different industry's, geography's, and characteristics. Salt Lake County should have a dedicated district. You must use the maps that we the people voted for.

I would follow the Utah Counnty boundary for the district not splitting the county apart. Then to meet the popoulation requirements, I would add Herriman and Bluffdale cities to this district.

For me, no different from current maps. I am still in a different district from friends, businesses and families a few blocks south (on the south side of 3300 south). I completely oppose the premise of these maps that Salt Lake City must be carved into pieces and attached to rural areas. I have lived in southern Utah (Cedar City) and Salt Lake City. Both rural and urban residents suffer from this strategy. Give us local Congressional representatives.

The Salt Lake metropolitan area should not be split unless it is at the point of the mountain. This attempt to pull votes away from each other is a blatant attempt to continue gerrymandering and should not be used!!!!

This map is filled with boundaries that do not make sense. In every district, the choice is made to split a community and pair them with a community they share little in common with. I want to echo the commenter who pointed out that this map pairs some of the richest people in the state, with some of the poorest who are hundreds of miles away (the avenues vs. four corners region). This map does not respect the spirit of fair, non-partisan maps.

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.

I live in Cottonwood Heights, and this map has us in the same district as communities that border Arizona. I'm also not sure why a slice of Millcreek is added to the district that lies to the west of it.

Again, I live here and feel like I have more in common with my SLC neighbors and should be included in that district.

This map splits Millcreek and combines it in the same district as Wendover.

This is one of the most unfair 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).

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

The split of Salt Lake County seems deliberate and distasteful. The people in Salt Lake do not have the same needs as eastern Utah, and the people in Provo don't have the same needs as Southern Utah. Use the Independent Redistricting Committee maps

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 unnecessarily splits up common communities of interest and neighborhoods which is in direct violation of what the judiciary has ordered.

This is a bad boundary. It splits a community and has the practical effect of gerrymandering to dilute the votes of people in these areas.

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!

Just because it has "Salt Lake" in the name doesn't mean you can just arbitrarily split the city. Use the redistricting maps drawn by the commission. These people would not be fairly represented.

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

What does this neighborhood have in common with Tooele but not in common with Sugar House. Also what does The Avenues have in common with where my parents live in San Juan County. The poorest people int he state on the Navajo reservation don't have much in common with the richest people int he state in the east foothills and the Avenues. 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 map is just as gerrymandered as the current map and unacceptable. Please use the Independent Redistricting Committee maps.

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

Unless most of Salt Lake County comprises one of the congressional districts, any map will not fairly represent the will of the people from proposition 4. A more moderate House of Representatives is NOT abad idea.

Again we have community-busting border gore to get "exactly equal" population numbers. But these numbers are almost six years old--they're not accurate anymore, so we shouldn't be trying to get exactly equal numbers at the expense of communities.

I don't understand what is wrong with using the maps drawn up by the independent 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.

Perhaps grouping native lands would provide them better representation. Perhaps taking all basin lands together provides a better natural boundary. Or use the independent maps instead of this…

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

The district 2 and 3 border defies logic. It divides communities of interest and does not follow any natural geographic features. Please propose the existing UIRC maps - they're fair and the work has already been done.

Gerrymandered the counties. Half of Salt Lake county is not a rural area and should not be represented by somebody outside of their community of interests. The freeway is not a natural boundary. Use the maps we made for you with the UIRC.

Why the blatant attempt to break Millcreek up? This map has CD2 literally hooking into Millcreek to keep it out of CD3.

This Millcreek split is beyond egregious and somehow a worse meeting point in Millcreek than the previous illegal map.

WVC should be kept with SLC

Southern Utah should be kept whole

Southern Utah Past Nephi can and should be kept whole

This Section of Utah County can be exchanged with D2 to add in Millcreek, Murray, and Midvale to make the SLCO portion of D3 make more sense

This is an extremely weird split of SLCO, makes no sense in why its drawn this way

Please just use the maps from the UIRC, the work is already done and it's a lot fairer than this map. It still splits salt lake in half and combines wildly different groups and interests. Even between Salt Lake and Utah Counties there's a lot of political difference and lumping them together and putting them with all of eastern Utah in district 3 makes a hodgepodge of very different communities.