Berkeley City Council faces a possible referendum after its decision Tuesday night to pass a controversial redistricting plan that would create a new student supermajority district.
Having approved the first reading of the redistricting ordinance earlier this month, the Council voted 6-3 at its meeting Tuesday to officially pass the Berkeley Student District Campaign map. The map includes the UC Berkeley campus, Greek housing and various Southside apartments in a newly formed District 7, where 18- to 29-year-olds comprise about 86 percent of the population. In the works since 2011, the BSDC plan has garnered criticism for its exclusion of Northside residences.
The United Student District Amendment, proposed this summer as an improvement to the BSDC plan, includes Northside student cooperatives, as well as the dorms on the northeast side of campus and International House. Both sides want a student district — some hope that new boundaries could put a student on the City Council — but proponents of the USDA plan have called the BSDC map unnecessarily exclusive.
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