Latest San Francisco electoral map maintains Tenderloin with SOMA in same supervisor district
The latest proposed San Francisco electoral map maintains the Tenderloin and central South of Market neighborhoods in the same supervisor district.
But the boundaries of the city's 11 supervisorial districts are still far from being set in stone. The panel members tasked with redrawing the supervisorial districts took heed Saturday of the demand from LGBTQ advocates and residents who want to see the two historic LGBTQ neighborhoods kept together in the new District 6.
It reverses their vote last month that had advanced a map that moved the Tenderloin into a new District 5 with Japantown, the Fillmore and the Haight.At their April 2 meeting, after hearing from 182 members of the public over seven hours, the San Francisco Redistricting Task Force voted 8-1 to advance what is known as Map 4D, which can be viewed here.
It maintains the Tenderloin with both central SOMA and Mission Bay."To me, most important is keeping the Tenderloin and central SOMA together," said commissioner Raynell Cooper of the main changes the public had called for in the maps.Jose Maria (Chema) Hernández Gil moved that the panel advance Map 4D as a template for further refining the boundaries of the 11 supervisorial districts in the coming two weeks.
