Public Comments

I’m in favor of the Schuster proposed redistricting for Colorado. I live in Durango & think this will work well for Coloradoans to be good neighbors to NM & UT (eye to my corner of the state). I testified in 2020 before a US Congressional committee about the Climate Crisis & our need to be good neighbors when we share water and air across state lines.

Please strongly consider the Schuster map. Keeping like communities together while also creating 3 competitive districts is consistent with a non-partisan effort the voters approved in 2018. As a resident (and Mayor) of Glenwood Springs, we have very little in common with gas rich energy economies of NW Colorado or University communities like Ft. Collins or Grand Junction. Our interests are aligned with rural resort communities in Eagle, Pitkin, and San Miguel Counties. The Roaring Fork Valley has a rich agricultural tradition that more closely aligns with a southern district as envisioned by Schuster or the 2nd staff map. The cry of "keeping the Western Slope together" is NOT a voter-passed priority as the "Western Slope" is not a community of similar interest any more than the "Eastern Plains" or the "Front Range." Please strongly consider these points.

As a citizen of CD3, I implore the Commission to vote for the Schuster map. The Schuster map keeps more communities of interest together. The Schuster Map keeps Southwest Colorado together, keeps the Roaring Fork Valley together, and keeps the San Luis Valley together with Pueblo and Pueblo's agricultural region. Staff map 2, the alternative, puts our communities together with northern communities that do not share our heritage and economy and splits communities of interest. The Schuster map creates more competitive districts, enabling each party to fairly compete for seats. In contrast Staff Map 2 creates several seats, including CD3, that are completely noncompetitive and thus wipe out potential representation of minority interests. Redistricting should not assign seats in this way.

I favor the Schuster Map. Please keep west slope districts competitive.

Use the corrected Schuster Map. Keep the districts as they are on this map. Mesa County should not be split. Mesa County has nothing in common with counties in SE Colorado.

We want a competitive district in our community - the Schuster Map is the answer! - Northern CD2 is D+1.5%. Southern CD3 is R+1.4%. Wildly competitive. -Keeps Mesa and Garfield together with their shared economies, laborshed migration, and extractive industries - GJ must have a major population center cousin in any map. GJ and Ft. Collins have more in common as big suburban, geographically isolated, university town, fast-growing cities than GJ has in common with Pueblo or Boulder. - Gets urban Boulder away from the Western Slope - Keeps Roaring Fork Valley - Glenwood, Eagle, Aspen, Vail whole - Keeps San Luis Valley and Pueblo whole - Creates THREE COMPETITIVE DISTRICTS in Colorado - that's two more than the current Second Staff Map. This is better!

I'm writing to urge you to approve the Schuster Map. -The Schuster Map not only makes a Southern Colorado district with Latino and Native heritage possible, it creates three competitive districts in the process - more competitive than the Second Staff Map. - Southwest Colorado has very little shared common interest with Grand Junction, Craig, and Boulder. Schuster uses two districts for Western Colorado that much more compactly reflect communities of interest on the ground. - The Schuster Map keeps Southwest Colorado together, keeps the Roaring Fork Valley together, and keeps the San Luis Valley together with Pueblo and Pueblo's agricultural region. It keeps more communities of interest whole than the Second Staff Map. - The Schuster Map keeps Mesa County whole with its major economic and extractive industries neighbor of Garfield County to the north. - The Schuster Map is the most competitive map still on the docket, creating three competitive districts. Southern Colorado is so diverse in our politics between communities but so interdependent in our economies and future. Rural agricultural communities need mountain town markets and jobs. Competitive districts are needed for our region to create solutions and work together.

I like the Schuster map best. It keeps Eagle together with towns it should be with. It keeps the Roaring Fork Valley together. My daughter in the San Luis Valley wants to keep it with the Pueblo area. Please use the Schuster map.

I think the map dividing CD-3 north south. The southern district, primarily agriculture, the north ski towns and resort areas.

Broomfield emerged as a city/county because it was divided across multiple districts. Broomfield was established to eliminate the challenges of the criss cross pattern of government and has emerged as a collaborative community with shared interests and a city/county government focused on meeting the needs of all Broomfield residents. By restructuring Broomfield - again - into multiple congressional/legislative districts, the residents, governments, school districts and other structures that depend upon congressional and other legislative services will become misaligned and diminished, a disservice to the people, businesses and government entities that work so hard to in the interests of the residents of Broomfield. As a candidate for Broomfield City Council, Ward 4, with a campaign theme "Broomfield Together", the potential division of our municipality into different legislative districts, will challenge the effectiveness and performance of Broomfield City Council. Thus, I join many others to urge the Redistricting Commission to reject any proposals that will prevent Broomfield and its residents from performing as a Community of Interest.