NORTHAMPTON REPRECINCTING COMMITTEE

Wendy Mazza, City Clerk

David P. Stevens, Chair
Ward 1: Elba Heredia Ward 5: Marion VanArsdell
Ward 2: Andrew Shelffo Ward 6: David P. Stevens
Ward 3: Gerald Budgar Ward 7: Richard Greene
Ward 4: Cheri Cross James Thompson, City GIS Coordinator
Mayor’s Office
210 Main Street Rm 12
Northampton, MA 01060-3199
(413) 587-1249
mayor@northamptonma.gov

NORTHAMPTON REPRECINCTING COMMITTEE RELEASES RESULTS

The City of Northampton was required to establish new wards and precincts by June, 2011. The
new wards and precincts are based on population numbers as determined by the US Census. The
Massachusetts Constitution requires that legislative districts be formed with "as nearly as may
be" an equal number of "inhabitants" as determined by the federal census. The Northampton
Reprecincting Committee has completed its work and released its changes as well as
the new electoral map.

The changes to the electoral map are as follows:

• Ward 1 & 3 : Bradford Street was moved to Ward 3 (for now)
• Ward 3: Lower half of hourglass was moved to 3B to 3A (cleans up a ‘finger problem’;
eliminating the bottleneck). Island Road area goes from 3B to 3A. This area was in 3A until
the 2000 census; it moves back to its traditional precinct.
• Ward 5, 6, 7: Each saw one block moved from precinct to precinct within Ward to balance
count.
• Ward 2 & 4: The Hospital Hill, Grove Street Community Garden area originally in Ward 4 is
now in Ward 2 to be in compliance.
• Ward 2 is now divided on an east- west axis which eliminates ‘fingers’.

The draft map is attached.

The Reprecincting Committee invites city-wide public input before its final
Committee vote. Please join us at our next meeting:

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

5:00-6:30 pm
City Council Chambers - in the Puchalski Municipal Annex behind City Hall

David Stevens, Reprecincting Committee chair

cell phone 413.539.0565