Public Weighs in on County Redistricting

The county will hold the first public hearing on its redistricting process at 1 p.m. today at the Board of Supervisors hearing room at 500 W. Temple St. in downtown Los Angeles.

The redistricting process has included the input of a Boundary Review Committee and one meeting already at the Board of Supervisors level, and the county has narrowed the possibilities down to three separate plans.

The main disagreement plan has been over whether to more radically alter the existing boundaries to include more Latino-majority districts or to keep the districts very close to how they are already drawn.

The California Citizens Redistricting Commission new political boundaries could mean that Montrose and La Crescenta will fall within different State Assembly, State Senate and U.S. Congress districts.

Assembly District

In the current map climate, La Crescenta-Montrose is shared between the 38th and 59th Assembly Districts, which are represented through Republicans Cameron Smyth and Tim Donnelly, respectively.

But in the proposed map, La Crescenta falls into a single district including La Canada Flintridge, Burbank and most of Glendale.

State Senate District

The final state senate district maps also group La Crescenta-Montrose with the above cities mentioned with the Assembly district, but also with several cities farther east, such as Pasadena, South Pasadena, Altadena, Sierra Madre and San Marino.

Congressional District

La Crescenta-Montrose's proposed Congressional District mirrors its proposed Assembly District (including the La Canada Flintridge, Burbank and most of Glendale). La Crescenta-Montrose is currently part of the 26th Congressional District, and represented by Republican David Drier (who resides in San Dimas). It is likely, however, that Democrat Adam Shiff, who resides in Burbank, will run for this district in the 2012 election.