AURORA | Some residents in Aurora might be living in different wards after January 2013.
Aurora City Council members at a study session meeting Oct. 22 decided to choose one of two new maps that would change ward boundaries at a council meeting in early November.
City officials have been working on changing the ward boundaries since March, since they are required to review the maps in election years ending in “3” and “9.”
The goal was to create new municipal wards with a population deviation of between 5 percent and 10 percent between the largest and the smallest wards, said Karen Goldman, deputy city clerk.
Goldman said the deviation — which is the percent difference between the largest and smallest wards — should be as close to 5 percent as possible.
The current population deviation is 16 percent, with Ward II being the smallest ward with 52,516 people and Ward VI being the largest, with 61,980 people.
“We are out of whack with deviation,” Goldman said.
Under the first proposed map, the deviation would be 4.38 percent with the smallest ward, Ward V, having 55,122 people, and the largest, Ward VI, having 57,612 people.
Under the second proposed map, the deviation would be 5.94 percent with the smallest ward, Ward III, having 54,280 people and the largest, Ward VI, having 57,597 people.
Council members will choose between the two proposed maps at their council meeting on Nov. 5.
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