Residents hoping to have their input considered in redrawing district line for the Long Beach Community College District have until Sunday to fill out the college’s survey it released to help determine communities of interest in the city.

The three-page online survey asks residents to describe their communities of interest by using neighborhoods, landmarks and other boundaries and to explain the shared values, interests or histories that hold those areas together.

It’s one of three citywide redistricting efforts being conduced but due to the timing of its elections, it will likely be the last to finish. The process is required by law every 10 years to ensure that new Census data is used to balance the populations of individual districts to ensure equal representation.

Both the city and LBUSD final maps need to be submitted by Dec. 7 for use in the 2022 election, but because the LBCCD board of trustees won’t appear on the ballot until the Nov. 8, 2022 general election. The college has until Feb. 28 to submit its final version.

Unlike the city’s process, the college has not launched an online map drawing tool yet to allow residents to submit actual maps, but a spokesperson said that it is developing one.

Long Beach saw unequal growth as a city but LBCC’s process is unique because it also includes the populations of Catalina and Signal Hill in its districts.

The district’s Trustee Area 3, which includes Downtown and Central Long Beach, has the lowest population count (97,058) after the 2020 Census release while Trustee Area 5 (108,963) that includes most of northeast Long Beach has the most.

The districts are supposed to be within a 10% deviation of each other but they are currently at 11.5%, which indicates that some changes will need to be made.

Both LBCC and the Long Beach Independent Redistricting Commission are working with the same consultant, Redistricting Partners, to complete their processes. However, the new city map will not require the City Council to ratify it while the new LBCC map will be approved by the board of trustees.

The board is expected to have draft maps presented at its Nov. 17 meeting with a possible vote on a final map scheduled for Jan. 26, according to the college’s website.

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