Wayland Split Between Two House Districts in Proposed Maps

On Tuesday, the Massachusetts Legislature's Special Joint Committee on Redistricting released its first draft of redistricting plans.

Under the new maps, State Rep. Tom Conroy's (D-Wayland) 13th Middlesex district would exclude part of Wayland. That chunk of eastern Wayland would become part of the 14th Norfolk district currently represented by Alice Hanlon Peisch, a Wellesley Democrat. Current State Sen. Richard Ross (R-Wrentham) would continue to represent Wayland, though his Norfolk, Bristol, Middlesex district would also face changes.

13th Middlesex District (State House)

Under the current maps, Conroy represents all of Wayland, Sudbury and Lincoln. The redrawn maps split Wayland between the 13th Middlesex and the 14th Norfolk districts. Additionally, Lincoln would no longer fall under the 13th Middlesex district, and small sections of both Framingham and Marlborough would join Conroy's district.

Conroy would continue to represent Sudbury.

Norfolk, Bristol, Middlesex District (State Senate)

Ross would continue to represent all of Wayland, but would lose parts of Needham and Wellesley to the Norfolk & Suffolk district and First Middlesex & Norfolk district, respectively.

The Norfolk, Bristol, Middlesex district would include an additional section of Franklin.

Congressional Maps

WBUR.org is reporting that the Congressional maps are not ready yet as that redistricting is "further complicated by the need to eliminate one of Massachusetts’ 10 districts."

State representatives must live in their district for a full year prior to election, which means these redrawn maps need to be approved by Legislature and signed by Gov. Deval Patrick by Nov. 4, 2011 in order to meet the deadline of the Nov. 4, 2012 election, WBUR reports.