Three Old Southwest neighborhood associations join rising chorus
opposing so-called "gerrymander plans"
COLUMBIA, 7/31/11 (Beat Byte) -- Three 4th Ward
neighborhood associations have spoken out against a city Ward reapportionment
plan that would place much of Columbia's Old Southwest -- as well as the
Benton-Stephens neighborhood -- into the First Ward.
The Quarry Heights Home Owners Association, the
Westmount Neighborhood Association, and the Historic
Old Southwest Neighborhood Association all oppose Plan D,
which would take the Old Southwest Neighborhood out of
the Fourth Ward AND the Benton-Stephens
Neighborhood out of the Third Ward and
put them BOTH into the First Ward.
"Members of the Westmount Neighborhood Association (WNA) want to go on
record that we oppose Plan D," WNA chairperson Catherine Doyle
wrote Ward Reapportionment Committee (WRC) and Columbia City Council members in
a July 26 letter.