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Kendall Robins
The fact that this map was created by an independent effort says it all. The legislature cannot help but be biased in their own map development, so best to use one created independently.
Alex Rasmussen
As a resident of West Jordan, I think it would make more sense to be able to vote with Taylorsville and Midvale than with Tooele, Cedar Fort, St George, and Vernal.
Michael J Howard
The Congressional Boundaries is a hot button issue for me, because I understand better than most the necessity of allowing all people in a society have a voice. I am a registered republican, I am 58 years old, I served 33 years in the U.S. Army across the globe, in over 3 wars and numerous nations. I have seen nations fall, because they want to silence the minority. We are headed down a dark path, and rather than try to lessen tensions, our legislature seems intent on stoking it.
To our legislature, this appears to be a simple how do we maximize our position, how do we maintain power, how do we keep 40% of our population from having any voice at all. This is extremely short-sighted. Seeking power to only have power convinces no one, it breeds division, and it leads to further abuse of all, not just the disadvantaged. The majority of maps do this by making every single district, noncompetitive, not only silencing the voices of over a million Utahns, but silencing the majority of republican in the middle as well. It urges every candidate, do be the most MAGA they can be. This doesn’t bode well for our state or our nation.
If our legislature actually cared about democracy, they would want to have the most Utahns with a voice as possible. They would understand the value of striving to win competitive districts, to persuade and convince the other side through ideas, rather than force. I am asking the legislature to follow the mandate of the people, select either the Escamilla Owens Map, map B or Map E.
Margaret Kluthe
This seems to be one of the better maps, because it keeps most counties together, but splitting the southern part of SLC into three districts makes no sense. I think the Escamila-Owens map does a better job than this one, but this one is definitely better than some.
Carol A. Osborne
This seems to be reasonably fair as it keeps Salt Lake City intact in one district.
Alec Quick
Better than a lot of the other maps when it comes to fair representation and needs of rural vs city folk.
Andrea J. Garland
This is one of the better maps because it keeps counties together. I think the Escamila-Owens map does a better job than this one, but this one is definitely less terrible than some.
Marilyn L Larriva
Do not use this map. This map does not keep similar communities together and does not follow the standards of Proposition 4. Use the Escamilla-Owens-Map. This E-O map gives a Rep for the South, North and two Reps to cover the population centers.
Jaqueline Pack
This one is not as bad as the others. I still have questions about why the lines are drawn where they are around district 2.
Alex Obbard
I think this is the second best proposed map (after fairutah) Does an effective job of representing communities and interests along Wasatch Front.
Amy Hale
This map is definitely better than some, and shows clear efforts to maintain geographic integrity.
Ali Griffin
This one feels less terrible than some. I appreciate the effort to group different interest groups, but Salt Lake County is still diced up. Why would North Salt Lake be cut off, for instance?
James Otto
This map splits the SW of the Salt Lake valley into a district that has completely different problems, needs, and therefore viewpoints of what is necessary for their communities.
The same is true for the District 3 Wrapping around the entire North, East, and West side of the Salt Lake valley.
There has to be a better way to balance populations while keeping similar communities together.
Stephen Byrd
Why is Utah county broken up so much? This doesn't seem like a fair map
Michal Patten
Of the maps created, this one best reflects the natural communities broken into 4 districts while adhering to the target population caps.
Dru Tidwell
This map appears to be true to the spirit of Prop 4, and leaves communities intact that have cultural, political, educational values which are similar. By allowing communities with similarities is honoring Democracy. I ask the Utah Leaders to please honor what is intended by the Voters in 2018. We have waited too long for fairness. Thank you.
Mike VanVoorhis
This map breaks Salt Lake County into too many districts by separating southwest Salt Lake County from the western Salt Lake County which unfairly separates their population's common interests.
Mike VanVoorhis
This map breaks Salt Lake County into too many districts and joins Tooele and southwest Salt Lake County (suburban northern Utah) with the rest of the southern Utah's "Painted Desert" region which unfairly represents either population's interests.
Mike VanVoorhis
This map breaks Salt Lake County into too many districts and joins Provo (suburban northern Utah) with the rest of the southern Utah "Painted Desert" region which unfairly represents either population interests.
Kylie Christensen
To put Eagle Mountain in the same district as Gunnison, Delta, and Fillmore is mind-boggling. Rural residents should have appropriate representation, but this dilutes some suburban and developing areas and shifts their representation. Consequently, in future elections, the growing populations of places like Eagle Mountain could crowd out the voices of residents in more rural places like Gunnison, Delta, and Fillmore.
Michael Coolidge
Probably the fairest of the maps
Frederick M. MacDonald
Easily the best of the proposals. It contains the best opportunity for representation of the areas in each district and avoids partisan gerrymandering as the People's Initiative requires.
Bryce Schulzke
Why can't we make a map that keeps all the counties in the same district without splitting them up. Salt Lake County should not be split up, and neither should any other county. Make a map that keeps the counties together and then each district should start with the largest counties and then split up the districts evenly trying to keep the north and the south part of the state together as much as possible because they often have differing issue they are concerned with.
Glen Lamson
Closest map to requirements of Prop. 4. Keeps most cities intact without blatant gerrymandering as the other proposed maps do.
Celene Anderson
This map is fair and allows for better representation.
Elise Nielsen
This map is one of the stronger options presented, but it is difficult to see how the populations in Draper, Lehi, and Provo share enough in common with the communities of Central East Utah to be grouped together in a single district. These areas have very different needs, economies, and community priorities.
Brianna St. Andre
I don't like this one. Why is Southern Utah getting lumped in with South Jordan?
Brittany Passmore
I'm not sure this map is quite fair. This southwest chunk of SL county being part of such a rural district seems unbalanced to me. I understand it's difficult to balance populations, but I worry this will result in unfair representation of those living in district 4.
Denee D. Tyler
This is the best map. It keeps the large urban area as a single district, which allows them to choose a representative who truly represents them. Please listen to your constituents.
Howard Horwitz
If the form offered a "neutral" category, I might have selected it. This map observes the principles better than most of the others, but why, for example, are Draper and South Jordan separated? Communities still divided.
Malcolm Wilson
This map goes a long way toward rectifying the gerrymandering of the 2010 and 2020 redistricting maps. While it keeps a large portion of Salt Lake County together, it still falls short of the goals of Proposition 4 and does not allow fair representation of the residents in the state who live in Salt Lake County, the largest county in the state, especially those in the southwest of the county.
Martin Shupe
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.
Barbara DeRosa
This map appears to be well thought out, allowing the more rural areas to stay together and have representation while keeping the main metro areas with largely similar values together as well. This is not perfect, but also aligns relatively well with Prop 4.
Hunter Keene
While it does create a singular district containing much of the city, that district stretches into the rural areas while simultaneously removing move of the population west of I15 to vote with districts massively far from themselves. As the 3-way pinwheel split goes so strongly against the maps proposed by the bipartisan redistricting committee I am inclined against it.
We would need to view the Proportionality of the map data, but with over 30% of Utah voters voting for non-republican parties, any map in which all 4 districts would be republican is maximizing the quantity of un-represented citizens of the state.
Zachary Lundeen
This map keeps communities intact and allow for better cohesive representation of Salt Lake County metro area. The arguments being made to balance urban and rural voices in each district minimize the voice of every community. We have two senators whose job it is to represent the whole state, rural and urban. The congressional districts should allow more localized priorities be emphasized. There is no reason why our entire state delegation should agree on everything. There are times that rural issues and priorities may come at the expense of urban/suburban priorities, and vice versa. The congressional districts should afford the opportunity to have true local representation and undiluted priorities. Otherwise, why do we need districts at all? We would just have six statewide voices instead of the two we already have in the senate.
Kalyan Karki
It will be great if we can create map which provide voices for SLC.
Paul Pehrson
No. This split of SL county is unfair. It dilutes the voices of county residents.
Ryan Lufkin
Wow! This map actually makes an attempt to respect city and community boundaries and gives urban voters the right to vote with voters of similar concern instead of chopping up the Salt Lake Valley and attaching it to large rural areas. Pretty straight forward as the most fair map.
Michelle Greene
No way Daybreak should be included in District 4. Clear gerrymandering
Jason Lyons
This map best aligns with Proposition 4 because it creates compact, contiguous districts while keeping more municipalities and communities of interest together. It minimizes unnecessary splits of Salt Lake County compared to the other proposed maps, which better reflects the requirements voters approved in Prop 4.
Nicholas Guyaux
I don't think Salt Lake County being split into 3 different districts allows for proper representation. You are splitting communities.
Brian Bosworth
We should not be dividing SLC into three districts. Keep urban/suburban communities together. They share the same concerns in terms of transportation needs, job types, socio-economic opportunity, etc.
Craig Shane
Breaks up Salt Lake County into too many districts.
Karin Harmon
As nice as this map is in including the wasatch back into more of an urban area, splitting up Salt Lake county is not a good approach.
Danica M Puente
This is a really strange way to break up the south end of Salt Lake County. I don't think that people in West Jordan should be put together with mostly rural communities.
Jessica DeAlba
This map is breaking up cities and neighborhoods in a very illogical way for the districts. I see where natural boundaries were used in some cases and then abandoned completely within the same district.
I fear this maps shows a grave misunderstanding in where populations are growing in Utah and that is very disappointing.
Hunter Fluckiger
I like it only for the fact that most of Salt Lake County remains intact . However, it does not make sense for Provo to be grouped together with outer rural populations.
Nandini Vyas
I like that this keeps most of Salt Lake County together.
ROBERT MARKHAM
This map has Salt Lake County spit into 3 districts. That's not good.
Steve Boulay
Salt Lake City is a distinct population and should largely be left as a separate district. This map seems to be a reasonable step in that direction. I make this statement as a 38 year resident and businessman.
Bowen Weeks
While I am not satisfied that the Salt Lake Valley is split, this map does a much better job at trying to meet the redistricting requirements and keep communities in the same district. It attempts to preserve communities and minimizes the division when it does have to split them, and follows natural boundaries as much as possible.
Matthew Gardner
This one isn't bad, as it keeps SL County mostly together, but it still puts a lot of urban/suburban people together with rural folks and that is problematic. There are better maps among the options than this.
Lisa Midgley
This map looks to follow the Prop 4 guidelines more so. It aims to keep communities together. And gives a better voice to those like minded areas.
Melody Burt
Do not split up Salt Lake County. Keep like areas with like areas. Urban with urban and rural with rural. The urban voice has very little in common with the rural voice.
Jane Rollins
Salt Lake County should not be divided into three districts. That is illogical and will never adequately reflect the needs of the people there.
Josh Paulsen
This map sucks. Clear gerrymandering. Don't break up contiguous cities like this as they deal with similar issues and need proper repreentation.
Paul Conlon
We should be working to keep communities together not split them apart.
Christian Joseph Hansen
More of Salt Lake City needs to be voting together. South Jordan and Draper have more in common with each other than they do with Wasatch backcountry and St. George.
Robert A Diehl
Best map to keep similar interests together
Greg Erickson
Some form of the inevitable Inland Port area will be in District 2 with Salt Lake City. The populations of each of the 4 districts is even. The future governing concerns seem to have continuity within each boundary. Is this map likely to be the most agreeable?
Carol Ruddell
This map appears to keep communities together. It allows the rural voice to be together and the urban voice to be together.
Dominique Bellanger
Splits Salt lake county communities too much
Cody Hatch
This seems like a good map which keeps similar communities together and honors the ideas of Prop 4.
Jason Hoggan
There is no need, nor any desire, to split SLCo three ways. Keep the urban areas in urban districts for fair representation of residents, not strictly the land represented on the map.
Kayla Dragmire
This splits the major urban areas into three parts when that just doesn't do anything that accurately represents the areas. Even disregarding other issues I have with this split, I have to also ask: How are the representatives supposed to focus appropriately if they have to tackle both very very rural area issues as well as highly urban area issues? The concerns and needs of these areas are always different and the representative should be able to actually represent their district, as much as possible.
Sawyer H
While I'm not a fan of the split, it does follow more of the parameters of Prop 4, and it does place like communities in the same district.
CATHY Campbell
Leave SL County alone please. It should be one district.
Autumn Lucas
This map attempts to keep communities together in a way that honors the ideas behind the Proposition for fair maps.
Kendra Hurst
This map does a good job of keeping communities with similar needs together, which I think is great for giving representatives the focus required for addressing their communities needs.
Seth Cox
This map splits SL County in 3 in a terribly partisan way.
Michelle Mourtgos
The adjustments to Districts 3 and 4 that Kathleen Millar is describing here seem to match with what map 258 proposes. I recommend you check that one out.
Kylie Frederick
I like that this map keeps the Salt Lake Valley together as one district (for the most part). Many of us live, work, recreate and more in the circle that makes up Salt Lake City and surrounding neighborhoods/ public lands and need a representative that can focus in on our needs.
Megan Bates
I like how this keeps salt lake city together, more so than the other maps. Urban and rural interests are a deep divide in current politics.
Frederick Michel Jenny
I like the split of the communities, it allows for fair representation while still giving a diverse group of constituents.
Cheryl Dickerson
This is a pretty good map. I feel like West Jordan and South Jordan should be part of District 3.
Kathleen Millar
Is there any reason why Box Elder couldn't be added to District 4 and District 1 couldn't gain part of Morgan? It seems like that upper west part of the state is more of a like community to District 4 in this iteration then Summit, Morgan and Wasatch are to Utah Countys District 3. If the numbers worked than couldn't District 3 gain more of the South East part of Salt Lake County, which is also more of a like community, being largely urban?
Kathleen Millar
I think if Summit and Morgan where part of District 4 rather than District 3, this would more closely relate to the rural communities in that area and it would free up more numbers to add the rest of Salt Lake, near West Jordan to District 3. My only other issue is that District 4 in St George is not representative of the rest of the rural counties in the area, and might skew there "like communities" vote. Overall not a terrible map
Treycin Meacham
Now this map makes sense! It keeps communities together and follows every single one of Prop 4’s rules. I like how it makes it so that rural areas have their own representation and suburbs and urban areas have their own representation! Rural and Urban areas have nothing in common so I love this map!
Cameron Bigler
While this one does divide SL County into three sections, at least it does so in a way that attempts to keep like communities together. Not my favorite map, but better than many others.
Monica Kohler
This is more consistent with communities that share ideologies, economies and challenges.
Alicia J West
I like how this map keeps communities together and therefore makes it easier for a Congressional Representative to focus on the needs of these communities.