The Los Angeles City Council voted a ballot Tuesday to settle its new arrangement of region maps for the following 10 years, carrying a tranquil finish to a habitually combative redistricting process.
On a 13-0 vote, council members approved a redistricting statute that places Koreatown in a solitary chamber area, revamps political limits in the San Fernando Valley and guarantees that USC and Exposition Park stay in the South Los Angeles region addressed by Councilman Curren Price.
Councilman Marqueece Harris-Dawson has pushed without success in recent weeks to have Exposition Park — which includes the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Banc of California Stadium and the California African American Museum— moved out of Price’s district and into his own. On social media, Harris-Dawson said his district lacks major economic assets, describing the issue as a matter of “Black equity, representation and fairness.”
Harris-Dawson’s locale, which likewise takes in a piece of South Los Angeles, is the just one in the city with a democratic populace that is greater part Black. On Tuesday morning, he encouraged his constituents on Instagram to assemble in to the board conference, saying he was “fighting for the future of all of South LA.”