COUNTY BOARD OKS REDISTRICTING PROPOSAL.Byline: Dave Melendi Staff Writer County supervisors gave preliminary approval Tuesday to changes in supervisorial boundaries that include moving Eagle Rock and part of the west San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. into different districts. The new map - which must be approved twice more per county law - moves 14,352 Eagle Rock residents from Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich's 5th District to Supervisor Gloria Molina's 1st District. The 8,389 residents of the West Valley would move from Antonovich's area to Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky's 3rd District. The boundaries are redrawn every decade after the federal census so that each district has roughly the same population. The supervisors rejected a plan put forth by Alan Clayton, director of equal employment opportunity for the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Chicano Employees Association, and others that would have moved Yaroslavsky's entire district to the San Gabriel Valley The San Gabriel Valley is one of the principal valleys of southern California. It lies to the east of the city of Los Angeles, to the north of the Puente Hills, to the south of the San Gabriel Mountains, and to the west of the Inland Empire. . Currently, the San Gabriel Valley is represented by three supervisors - Antonovich, Molina and Don Knabe Donald R. Knabe (born October 15, 1943 in Illinois) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, serving the Fourth District, a crescent shaped district that covers the coastline from Marina Del Rey southward to Long Beach, and southeastern Los Angeles County to - and El Monte Mayor Rachel Montes mon·tes n. Plural of mons. and others said that dilutes the area's political power. ``Not only is the San Gabriel Valley fragmented geographically, leadership and the vision for the San Gabriel Valley is also fragmented among three board members,'' Montes told the supervisors before the 5-0 vote. ``I am here to urge the board not to squander squan·der tr.v. squan·dered, squan·der·ing, squan·ders 1. To spend wastefully or extravagantly; dissipate. See Synonyms at waste. 2. the opportunities provided once every 10 years to empower both people and places within Los Angeles County,'' Montes said. Yaroslavsky said it's tough to please everyone when drawing the districts. ``You may unite the San Fernando Valley but you bust up the Westside,'' he said. ``There's a lot of 'communities of interest' in this county.'' |
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