redraws the Assembly’s district boundaries, usually every 10 years after the U.S. census is complete, to help equalize representation of Anchorage residents on the Assembly as the population changes. In 2020, voters also approved giving District 1, downtown, a second elected seat.
District 1 was once about half the size of the other districts but has been expanded east and south while other districts shrank, in order to add a second representative to the district. That also means that until future municipal elections, those residents will live in a district represented by Assembly members they didn’t vote for or against.
Many residents had expressed concern that the Weddleton-Wells draft had cut West Anchorage High School and Bettye Davis East Anchorage High School from their namesake districts. Constant’s changes put those areas back into their original districts. Though District 5, East Anchorage, lost a large chunk of its western portion to District 1, a northern section of the Muldoon Road area that had been grouped with Eagle River in District 2 is now returned to District 5. East Anchorage also expanded west to include parts of the city that were previously in Midtown: Alaska Pacific University and Goose Lake Park.
“The map that resulted wasn’t a win. It was sacrifice for everybody. And it was hard because we all have ideas of what we’d like our neighborhoods to be. And everybody had to give and I had to take a lot,” Constant, who represents the expanded District 1, said.
Here's a map of the new election district boundaries approved by the Anchorage Assembly on Tuesday night.
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