Public Comments

I am very concerned that the state legislative district commission would divide the house and/or senate districts between Larimer and Boulder counties. This decision would divide those districts between two very different communities of interest. Please keep Larimer County separate from Boulder County!

Please keep Latimer and Boulder Counties separate. The ideologies of these counties are very different from one another.

Greeley has much in common with the Fort Collins, Larimer County area. Both are college towns (Greeley=UNC & AIMS), both are growing, we have shared water, infrastructure, hospital/medical. Greeley's growth is towards the west of city limits. I would like to see Greeley's possible new districting area to stay with the front range, I-25 corridor. Eastern Colorado has more farming/ranching and shared interests with rural boundaries. For a new district I would like to see Greeley separate from the rural areas farther east of town. I think Eastern Rural areas would benefit from their own shared interests.

People living in Eagle should be aligned with the Vail Valley. There interest is more appropriate to the Vail Valley instead of the Grand Junction community.

In light of the legitimate challenges to redistricting Congressional seats from Colorado, the attached proposal presents a more progressive approach to assure the voices of more Coloradoans are represented in Congress. Thanks for your consideration and interaction with the proposal.

As a concerned citizen and lifetime resident of eastern Colorado I strongly urge you, the commission, to keep our agricultural areas and interests separate from urban Colorado. In creating the yet to be drawn up districts, its imperative that we retain a strong voice in our representation. We retain such a unique economic and vocational difference from those areas, we need our voices heard via representation from this area. Once again, I strongly urge consideration to keep the districts new boundaries allowing for a functional rural voice. Thank you for considering my points. Kenny Rogers Wagon Wheel ranch Yuma, Colorado

We are voters in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District, and we would appreciate having our voices heard on Colorado's Redistricting process. Our voters support renewable energy, as mirrored by the make up of Holy Cross Energy's board and have unique concerns regarding housing and public transport, due to large ski resorts in the area. Our school district serves a large Hispanic population, and multiple efforts locally are being made to ensure their health and welfare. The majority of the county is covered by the White River National Forest, and the entirety of the Eagle River is in our county. We are asking you to consider putting the whole of Eagle County in Joe Neguse's district in exchange for Grand County being put into district 3, as we believe it was their county where all of the commissioners asked to be in CD3. Thank you for considering this suggestion. David and Debra Dieter PO Box 6175 Eagle, CO 81631 (303) 549.7857

Comment: I have lived in Fort Collins since 2008 and have shared a congressional district with Weld County as well as with Boulder County. They were very different experiences. I believe that many of the criteria that underlie fair and effective redistricting explain why. Communities of Interest: Areas that make up a congressional district should share similar interests such as cultural assets, economic and physical resources. Both Larimer and Boulder counties share flagship universities (CSU and CU), foothill and mountain landscapes with forests and river watersheds. As a result, we share common advantages and disadvantages as well as common concerns. We are forced to deal with fires and floods that require us to coordinate around issues of evacuation, recovery and sustainability going forward. Our current representation in CD 2, along with our educational and research/technology resources, helps us to maximize our advantages for tourism and outdoor activity while we work together to minimize the hazards of the interface between forest, water and community. The Poudre River is in many ways the heart of our city of Fort Collins. Water is a key shared interest for us, not least because we just built a Whitewater Park area adjacent to Old Town. Living a few blocks away, I have been able to see how much enjoyment people get from it, from office workers grabbing a scenic lunch to tubers and serious kayakers to families wading and splashing on a hot day. I am concerned that the Northern Integrated Supply Project will have negative impacts for Fort Collins and so I would not want to be combined in a congressional district with the suburban communities further southeast that will receive water diverted from the Poudre. Contiguous and compact districts: Larimer and Boulder counties are contiguous and share a mix of mountain, foothill, urban and farming/ranching areas while Larimer and Weld counties are separated by Interstate 25 and Weld is much more solidly farming/ranching/oil and gas extraction land. Looking at the maps, it does appear that Longmont is more similar and contiguous with the rest of Boulder county and CD 2 than with CD 4. That might be something to consider in this current redistricting, depending on the opinions of Longmont voters. Competitive districts: Larimer County has been a politically competitive area, especially at the congressional and county levels. If combined with solidly red Weld County, we would lose our competitive tradition and find ourselves in the situation we were in earlier--lacking responsive representation on critical issues such as climate change and the sustainable, resilient responses that are top of mind for our future In summary, I strongly believe that Larimer County belongs in a congressional district with Boulder County rather than with Weld County which has recently discussed a desire to secede from Colorado to Wyoming. Nothing speaks to a "bad match" more clearly than the fact that one of the parties is talking about leaving the state of Colorado for an environment that is more to their liking. .

Hello, I have created a map that I believe achieves all of the legislative goals laid out in staute and the constitution. 1. Equal population, my variance between each district is only .54% on average. 2. They are contiguous. 3. They comply with the Voting Rights Act of 1965. 4. They preserve communities of interest. Colorado is often described as having 8 regions. The Front Range "Denver and the Cities", the Pioneering Planes of northeastern Colorado, the Canyons and of southeastern Colorado, the Pikes Peak region, the San Luis Valley, the southwest slope and San Juans, the northwest slope and mesas and the Rocky Mountain Playground of the high mountains. I further subdivided the front range into compact districts representing Denver, the northern front range, west front range, east front range and south front range. This prevents the "baconmanders" and "partial donuts" that have infested our congressional districts in the past. 5. They are as compact as possible. 6. They maximize competitive disticts. As I ignored voting patterns and built my disticts along the regions it was a happy accident that it resulted in 2 lean GOP, 3 lean Democratic and 3 competitive disticts. Sounds like it reflects Colorado pretty well. https://davesredistricting.org/join/ebb2b55a-c4d8-4eb9-8f1d-3881d5761806

Please see the attached document for detailed comments on the formulas being proposed to the commissions.