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Data Driven Detroit (D3) provides accessible, high-quality information and analysis to drive decision-making that strengthens communities in Southeast Michigan.

Council District Options Update

D3 has submitted a “new” map to City Council – Option 5p: the precinct compliant plan. It is unfortunate, but due to legal shortsightedness and a bureaucratic process, we have had to slightly modify our proposed neighborhood centric map from Census block lines to Bureau of Elections’ precincts. Our intent of protecting neighborhoods has not [Read on...]

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More Press for D3’s “Option 5” District Map

Detroit 2020 covers the support in Southwest Detroit for D3’s Option 5, and interviews D3 Director Kurt Metzger:

The Huffington Post also interviewed Kurt:

What motivated D3 to make its own ‘Option 5′ City Council district map?

Really our critique was that two of the [City Planning [Read on...]

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Support for D3’s “Option 5” Voiced by Residents at City Council’s Public Meetings

by Louis Bach, Communications

Last Friday, Data Driven Detroit added its voice to the City Council districting process by releasing an alternative to the four official district map options.  Since then, there have been three public meetings for Detroiters to voice their opinion on the map options and on the process.

As it turns out, [Read on...]

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