Public Comments

Please allow the nonpartisan, neutral redistricting staff's final set of legislative maps to the commission, which would ensure fair representation for the people of Colorado, as they wanted, to go forward. Thank you>

Reject maps being pushed by Commissioners Barnett and Kottwitz and support maps drawn by nonpartisan staff! We MUST NOT have unfair partisan mapping submitted by non-disclosing sources.

My house district is split now and I will be in a different district altogether and I will adapt. I accept this because redistricting and change is inevitable, this will hopefully produce healthy growth and transformation because it was done in good faith. I have seen the effort that the commission and residents have put into making this process as fair and inclusive as they can with a lot of their time and with passionate testimony; it has been hard and lengthy, but just as importantly, it has been transparent and voter-driven. Now I read that a shadowy group of GOP special interest/law makers are going to slip in a different map that has not gone through the transparent democratic process sickens me. Why is this even allowable? Why is this even considered? This dishonest, underhanded effort should not be seriously entertained or acted on. The only thing that should happen is rejection of this attempt altogether. Thank you for your time.

To the commission: I urge you to take a stand for transparency by rejecting any maps that could be tarnished by the ongoing, unreported lobbying to gerrymander legislative districts for the GOP. Reject maps being pushed by Commissioners Barnett and Kottwitz and support maps drawn by nonpartisan staff. Thank you.

I am requesting that you reject the maps being pushed by Commissioners Barnett and Kottwitz and support maps drawn by the nonpartisan staff. The actions of these Commissioners are a mockery of everything that Independent Redistricting Commissions are meant to stand for. You need to act appropriately and stop the ongoing, unreported lobbying to gerrymander legislative districts for the GOP.

We passed amendments Y and Z for INDEPENDANT commissioners. Not to have a couple of commissioners with outside influence attempt to gerrymander for the Republicans to get control of the Colorado House and Senate. Also, the current Congregational drawn map puts northern Douglas County, a very urban area into a very rural area of Congressional District 3. We do not have very much in common with the rural area.

Please reject maps being pushed by Commissioners Barnett and Kottwitz and support maps drawn by nonpartisan staff.

The redistricting should be done according to the bipartisan committee’s recommendations.

Legislative Redistricting Commission: My name is Ms. Katherine Czukas. I am representing myself. I have been a resident of El Paso County for 11 years. My comments are about observations in HP.008 BarnettFletcherHassHorvathKottwitz map / plan and HP.004 Barry, Schepper, Uzeta O'Leary plan. My comments are about the Mountain Shadows neighborhood on the Northwest side of the city of Colorado Springs. In both of these plans referenced above, there is a small area of ~300 people that should be reunited with their true community of interest in HD14 rather than their current placement in HD18. This HD14 and HD18 designation is the same for these proposed districts in both HP.008 and HP.004. Alas, likely due to existing precinct lines in El Paso County, there are homes in Mountain Shadows on Lanagan Street, Chuckwagon Road and other streets west of Flying W Ranch Road that are being placed in HD18. These ~300 people are part of the same community as the remainder of the Mountain Shadows neighborhood also west of Centennial Blvd and north of Garden of the Gods Road. In fact, one reason for this being a strong community is because many people on these very same named streets lost their homes in the Waldo Canyon fire in 2012. If the commission is going to go forward with either HP.004 or HP.0008 then, I’d recommend there be an amendment so that these 300 homes (effectively north of Glen Eyrie on N 30th Street and West of N. 30th Street) be put in the same district of HD14. This is not a major changes, as in both HP.004 and HP.008, the HD14 is already under population deviations (by 1,162 or 444 people according to the Population Summary Report), so adding 300 people into HD14 would be beneficial to your overall Target Deviations. And also, both in HP.004 and HP.008, the HD18 is over the population deviation anyway (by ~720-740 people). The Second House Staff Plan and the Third House Staff Plan and the HA.009 Perez amendment do a better job of keeping the Mountain Shadows community whole and I’d encourage the commissioners to think more about those options when considering what is relevant for a House District boundary that keeps a community of interest.

It is ridiculous that Commissioners Barnett and Kottwitz have created their own maps. The whole point of the commission was to be non partisan. Please reject any attempt to change the maps drawn by nonpartisan staff.