Board Approves Redistricting Plan 14
News Articles
04/22/2002
The Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District Board of Directors voted March 28, 2002, 4 to 3, to adopt Resolution Number 2046 establishing boundaries for its five wards. In addition, two Directors serve from at-large seats and are subject to a vote of the entire AC Transit District electorate. There are a total of seven Board Directors.
With all members present, the Board voted to fix and establish by law the boundaries of the wards of the AC Transit District for the purpose of electing Directors according to Plan 14. The vote was as follows:
Ayes: President Harper; Vice President Peeples; Directors Piras and Williams
Noes: Directors Creason, Cross, and Wallace
Based on the most current federal census, redistricting is legally required at least every 10 years to bring wards into balance with regard to population. Following a series of public hearings to redistrict its five geographically based wards for electing members to the Board of Directors, the Board reviewed three plans: 13, 14, and 15. All plans met the legal requirements: community of interest, cohesiveness, contiguity, integrity, compactness of territory, topography and geography.
The adopted Plan 14 places the current directors of Wards 2 and 3 into the same ward. The two districts remain largely as they are now, but Ward 2 moves southerly by picking up the City of Piedmont and parts of the Oakland neighborhoods of Montclair and Trestle Glen.
General Descriptions of Ward Boundaries
What follows are general descriptions of the ward boundaries contained in Plan 14. They are not as precise as the “metes and bounds” descriptions that can be found at http://www.actransit.org/images/news/redistricting_maps_files/14_meansbounds.doc
Ward 1: The cities of El Sobrante, San Pablo, Richmond, El Cerrito and Albany, and Kensington as they currently are contained in Ward 1. In addition, all of the City of Berkeley except for that area that is generally south of Cedar Street and east of Oxford Street, the University campus and east of Telegraph Avenue south of the University campus.
Ward 2: The cities of Emeryville and Piedmont and that portion of Berkeley not in Ward 1. That part of Oakland that is north of a line that when drawn from the Oakland-Alameda estuary runs generally east from the water on 42nd Avenue, then north on Foothill Boulevard, then east on 35th Avenue, then north on MacArthur Boulevard-Georgia Street, then east on Laguna, then northeast on Lincoln and other streets until it hits Park Boulevard, east on Park to Mountain, south on Mountain, then to Ascot Drive, then Castle Drive, then Melville Drive to Skyline, and then to Waterloo, and Waterloo to the Oakland City line.
Ward 3: The City of Alameda and the balance of the City of Oakland, that portion of San Leandro that is west of the MacArthur Freeway and generally north of 147th Avenue and east of the BART line and north of Fairway Drive/Aladdin Avenue west of the BART line.
Ward 4: The balance of the City of San Leandro, Castro Valley, San Lorenzo, Ashland and the other unincorporated areas of Alameda County currently in AC Transit. That portion of the City of Hayward that generally is east of the Nimitz Freeway.
Ward 5: That portion of Hayward that is not in Ward 4 and the cities of Fremont and Newark.
Plan 14 Maps by Ward
