Conor Donnelly asked: I'm sitting here looking over a map of Minneapolis neighborhoods and comparing it to the Ward Map. How, when, and why are these boundaries defined as they are? Why don't the ward boundaries correspond to the neighborhood boundaries? There's been some chatter related to the topic but none of it really responds to the question. Here's my attempt at an answer: Ward boundaries don't correspond to neighborhood boundaries becase there are legal limits on how far a ward can deviate from a perfect 1/13th of the city's population, and adding and subtracting whole neighborhoods to get there doesn't get redistricters close enough to that figure. So they use block groups and blocks, which are smaller slices of population. These don't always follow neighborhood lines. Neighborhood boundaries were set historically by the Planning Department to define theoretical spheres of local interest. Steve Brandt Star Tribune neighborhoods guy _______________________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - Minnesota E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
