Detroit's City Council Districts Decided

[EastsideAl]

I like #2, which seems to me to do the best job of having contiguous, reasonably compact, and sensible districts, while also mostly keeping areas with common interests together, including downtown. It links us here on the lower part of east side with downtown and midtown, which we are more tied to than we are with the areas to our north.

[antongast]

I like #2, which seems to me to do the best job of having contiguous, reasonably compact, and sensible districts, while also mostly keeping areas with common interests together, including downtown. It links us here on the lower part of east side with downtown and midtown, which we are more tied to than we are with the areas to our north.

2 is good on the east side and downtown, but I don't like how it splits up the NW side. The Joy/Wyoming area has more in common with Warrendale and the rest of the Joy/Tireman corridor than it does with SW Detroit, and Grandmont, Rosedale Park, and Old Redford should all be in the same district, IMO. That one snake-shaped district connecting Warrendale to the Grandmont/GR-Greenfield area to the Dexter/Joy area just looks bizarre and gerrymandered.