Alex Dalton

Valparaiso City Councilwoman Barbara Domer, D-3, wants her city to change its approach to municipal redistricting by creating a citizen advisory commission to guide the process.

Every 10 years, U.S. municipalities are required to redraw the boundaries of their council districts in order to account for changes in population distribution recorded in the decennial U.S. Census. The system ensures that districts — five in the case of Valparaiso and other third-class Indiana cities — are kept as close to equal size as possible. A similar process is undertaken by state legislatures for state house, state senate and U.S. congressional districts.

Mid-decade redistricting at the federal level has been at the center of an intense partisan conflict in recent months. In a highly unusual

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