So far every map I've look at, including this one, splits Salt Lake and surround neighborhoods in truly baffling ways. This one is no exception. 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.

As pointed out in the 9/22/2025 meeting 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 SLC up into four fragments. There is is a reason why we need to use the maps drawn by the UIRC. All five options we have to choose from in this exercise do not come close to meeting Proposition 4 standards. 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. We need to keep the Wizards with their imagined perils in check. Just use the redistricting maps given to the legislature by the independent commission in 2021 they were good well thought out maps. These five offerings 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.

District 1 is pretty crazy, not compact for sure, but the rest gets closer. Could use one of the independent commission maps that do a better job of cleaning up this map.

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 and the districts are sprawling. Dr Trende used Political Data to draw these maps, which goes against the Requirements of Prop 4.

Map Option D: 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”.

Putting Box Elder County with San Juan makes no sense at all. And splitting my neighborhood in Taylorsville in two, and then grouping one of them with Lehi, also makes no sense. It also violates rules 2, 3, 5, 6, and 7 of Proposition 4, which is law.

This map has potential, but it still unnecessarily divides communities and counties. Move all of Toole County to District 1. Move all of Davis County to District 3. Move San Juan County and Grand County to District 2. Move Herriman, South Jordan, and Riverton to District 4.

Jackson Lewis and Stuart Hepworth make valid, detailed comments. Reference the map proposal 2025SHNOSPLIT6 to see how to represent all Utahns with a map that addresses the Prop 4 criteria better than the maps proposed by the Legislative Redistricting Committee.

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 only slightly better than the rest, but it is evident that the Legislature is still trying to eat their cake and have it, too. And still splitting up Salt Lake Counties urban neighborhoods to dilute our votes from counting on any issues. Badly done. Where are the original maps drawn up by the INDEPENDENT and NEUTRAL committee?

This map is splitting Salt Lake county again, which is again an obvious attempt to dilute the voices of this region and strip them of fair and accurate representation. There is no reason that Salt Lake county should be split down the middle, its understandable that some of the county will need to be allocated to another district in order to meet population requirements for each district but to do so in this way denies the region accurate and fair representation.

Cache Valley and San Juan County should not be in the same district. I live in Cache Valley and have worked in the Navajo Nation (and other parts of Eastern Utah that are included in this map). There are not as many shared cultural and political interests between these areas as there are between Cache Valley and Ogden or Eastern Utah and Southwestern Utah. Additionally, getting from one part of the district (such as Cache Valley) to another (let's, say, Blanding) would require leaving the district which is a big no-no. There might be dirt roads that you could use on a seasonal basis, and some off-roading, but that's about it.

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

As a constituent living in Rose Park - none of these maps reflect what the voters passed as law in prop 4. Communities should be kept together and given equal representation by having their own districts and their own rep.

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 (UIRC) should be approved.

Again, splitting communities. Kearns and Taylorsville, are some of the first thoughts of what one would call the "West Valley." Splitting communities for partisan gain.

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.

How about this? The part of the state that is north is one district. The part of the state that is south is one district. Salt Lake County is one district. Utah County is one district. That is the fairest option, keeping folks with similar interests together. 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.

In this map, district 1 spans the Entire State of Utah. Given the requirement of compactness and a regular shape, this district would not meet the standards. I would challenge the map maker to drive from Lewiston to Blanding without using I-15. Northern Utah vs Southern Utah varies in culture, economy, environment and geography. Northern Utah has an agricultural base and needs efficient water management versus Southern Utah faces severe water scarcity and drought. Even the seasons vary with Northern Utah having snowy winters and Southern Utah having a desert climate. Northern Utah has a growth management and housing issue versus Southern Utah has a need for jobs, health access and infrastructure.

This map willfully disregards the legal requirement that counties not be split up unless absolutely necessary (Salt Lake, Utah, and Wasatch counties are all divided up). It's clearly meant to "appear" compact, while actually dividing communities of interest. Sugarhouse has more common interests with Millcreek than it does with Farmington

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).

While these maps are better than the absurd 4-way split from the last go-around, it's clear that the intent is still to dilute Democrats and maintain total Republican representation. There is no compelling reason for having districts which contain both rural and urban areas. Why not have 1 Salt Lake County district of 817,000 people and then divide from there. You can have the next district comprised of S. Salt Lake County and most of Utah County. And then have a northern district and southern districts which are comprised of suburban and rural. You would end up with the following: 1 moderate Democrat district, 2 moderate Republican districts, and 1 further right Republican district. Is this too inconceivable? We live in a constitutional republic based on a REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY. This would more accurately represent the state than the blatant gerrymander we have now and the less blatant gerrymander proposed in the new maps.

Dividing communities of interest does not follow the statements of prop 4, voted on by We the People. These maps make it clear that an independent commission is needed as the legislature's offerings disregard Prop 4, and therefore the court order. I hope this doesn't take another 8 years to rectify.

The map is less offensive that A,B, and C, but still pretty bad. Salt Lake County is still being split to incorporate areas of Davis and Utah Counties when more of it could be encompassed in a single district. Also, the legislature's ability to create a 5 maps so quickly reveals the lies they told the court about needing more time. The independent commission already had a very lengthy and thorough process. There's no principled reason you couldn't you those.

Please do not split Wasatch County

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.

I do not like the idea of splitting Tooele County into parts of two different districts. We should stand united as a county.

Why do we continually have to endure blatant abuses of power and these transparent ploys to hold on to political power that was unjustly gained in the first place? The only thing that should be happening here is for the legislature to respect the while of the people and allow maps drawn up by the INDEPENDENT board to take affect. Anything less than that is a continued gross abuse of their power and a dereliction of their duties to follow the will of the people they represent!

Really? . Splits too many counties and creates 2 very small districts. Versions A, B and C are worth keeping. Salt Lake County numerically needs to be split. The other counties do not have to be split at all. See my updated Hat and 3 stripes submittal based on what I submitted in 2011.

I live in Millcreek and each one of these proposed maps cares up my community, putting nearby friends, family and businesses in other districts and lumping me in the same district with remote parts of the state. Urban and rural districts both deserve Congressional representation that can focus on their needs. The demand for a rural/urban mix in each district is a red herring for political gerrymandering. I prefer the independent committee's maps.

I really don't like tremonton to blanding rural wrap. Districts 3 and 4 are interesting, though.

Bluffdale shares significant community interest with Riverton and Herriman, this carve out does not make much sense. I-15 seems like a natural boundary and Bluffdale should be with the communities on the west side of I-15

In the congressional meeting it became apparent that this maps splitting of the central city is clearly in violation of municipality, county, and prop 4's guidelines.

This is better than the other three maps previous. But again, why is the Salt Lake area not being kept together? Why is it constantly being divided up? This map is still unfair and does not actually put the groups of voters together. Millcreek, Cottonwood Heights, Sandy, Murray should all be kept with South Salt Lake, Sugar House, Salt Lake, and West Valley. Stop dividing our votes!!!!

Politically speaking, this is probably the most fair map. However the boundaries still violate the spirit of fair districting. I live in the Avenues, and I could not easily travel to this corner of the district without passing through another district.

The way this map is drawn, families who send their kids to Davis High School will be split between two different districts. Layton Parkway is the boundary for the school, and as we can see on this map district 3 ends prior to Layton Parkway and features a variety of odd shapes and out-juts. This split also doesn't honor city boundaries (one of the guidelines of fair redistricting!) Very odd choice to split Davis County at all -- I would say the entire county has very similar values and political goals.

This map seems somewhat reasonable until you zoom in and see how odd the division of Salt Lake County is. I echo others who have called for using a map drawn up by the independent commission. Dividing the east and west sides of salt lake county seems like an intention effort to split up communities who have similar political views.

I live here and feel like I would be best represented by a district that also includes SLC.

Salt Lake County is too populous to be its own district - fine. But stop carving it up and putting it in districts with other counties. There should be at least one solely-Salt-Lake-County district.

Use the Independent Redistricting Commission maps - so many groups are split or lumped together and make no sense. Why Layton and Kaysville separated? Why combine southern Utah with Utah county?

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

And yet again, this map unnecessarily splits up common communities of interest and common neighborhoods. Along with splitting up SL County. We need to use the fair maps that were already drawn in 2021 by the independent redistricting committee that voters voted for.

This might be the fairest of the the maps in question but it continues with the many of the same problems of our current map. As a resident of Utah County, I resent not seeing a single map that treats the county as a single community. At the very least, Utah Valley, where the wellbeing of the valley is shared by all its resedents, should not be divided up (one map goes as far as to split Provo and Orem). The same issue can be said of many other communities along the Wasatch Front. It would be well to revisit the non-partisan maps drawn several years back.

Areas like Saratoga Springs have far more in common with Herriman. lumping the SE corner of SL County with Utah county is not in keeping with the language, goals, or intent of Utah's redistricting law.

Layton and Kaysville being separated? Oh that's a good one. Why not start with keeping counties and regions together as much as possible, rather than just splitting them to split them? Just use the Independent Commission Maps, as the people originally told you to do.

This is an island with no access to the rest of the district by reasonable means.

This map splits up West Jordan, Taylorsville, West Valley City, Kaysville and Layton with some precincts in Wasatch county separated from the rest of the county. It also splits Tooele, Salt Lake, Utah, Davis and Wasatch counties. D1 is not compact and sprawls, and D3 is not contiguous (road travel). Not a great map

If we are to do a configuration of two competitive seats around SLCO and Davis, consider this iteration. file attached

Option D is bad. Why split Davis County up and SLC County up? Move Davis County all into District 1. Combine SLC County into the same district. COMMUNITY of INTEREST not population levels.

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

If this District 1, which stretches from Utah's southeast corner all the way up to its northwest corner, is somehow acceptable to the Legislature, then there is no plausible reason why a district encompassing all of rural Utah wouldn't also be acceptable.

This is dividing Salt Lake County in a way I just don't get. Use the Fair districting maps.

There is no reason for this to just divide up a random street into another district. whole map splitting up the slc valley is a terrible gerrymandering attempt

Why is Murray always divided from SLC but Riverton can manage to twisted around to be in the same district on multiple map proposals?

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.

Too much focus splitting Salt Lake Valley. The independent maps are a better option.

Salt Lake City and its closest suburbs should be grouped into 1 congressional district, not split for partisan reasons. Use the better boundaries maps there much fairer and meet all the requirements which this one does not

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

The haphazard border between districts 3 and 4 clearly divides communities of interest. Please use one of the existing UIRC maps.

Needless splitting of the county in ways that do not follow natural boundaries, split communities of interest, split cities, and are irregularly shaped. This maps flies in the face of the law.

A district that touches the northernmost and southernmost points of the state is hardly in keeping with the judge's order to keep communities intact.

Layton and Kaysville should be kept together

Eagle Mountain the city is not large enough in population to warrant a split

Splitting Grand and San Juan counties from the rest of southern utah divides a community of shared interest

Tooele County is not large enough in population to warrant a split

Wasatch is not large enough to warrant a split

Davis is not large enough to warrant a split

way unnecessarily ugly

Salt Lake City itself and its inner suburbs are big enough to make it so that SLC should not be in a commuter district with Tooele and Davis counties

Did you even consider racial demographics and city boundaries when drawing these maps? Splitting West Jordan from South Jordan to add WJ to WVC and Taylorsville while cutting out Murray and Midvale dilutes Utah's Hispanic communities federal representation. Also the Jordans should be kept together

Please just use the maps from the UIRC, the work is already done and it's a lot fairer than this map. This map looks a bit fairer than the first three, but looking closer it's still unnaturally dividing Utah and Salt Lake counties along partisan lines. Why does district 3 have a literal line of 3 houses to then grab a chunk of what would be district 4? There's also a lot of other weirdness with district 3 that makes it seem very partisan.

Splitting Riverton and Bluffdale cuts an important community of interest

Splitting West and South Jordan splits an important community of interest

Millcreek and Eagle Mountain have no shared political, economic, or demographic connections and their lumping makes no sense

nonsensical county split this precinct has about 350 people in it, why is it included in SLCO seat

Also it goes without saying but Box Elder and San Juan being in the same district is definitely not compact or good road connections.

Fairly sure there's no road connection between Uintah and Grand counties.

No road contiguity between the northern and southern parts of Salt Lake County in D3.

No road contiguity between this bit of unincorporated Davis and the rest of D3.