{"id":50936,"date":"2021-10-16T17:45:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T21:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=50936"},"modified":"2021-10-16T17:46:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T21:46:00","slug":"lee-county-redistricting-maps-downtown-lehigh-acres-could-become-county-commission-seat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/10\/lee-county-redistricting-maps-downtown-lehigh-acres-could-become-county-commission-seat-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee County redistricting maps Downtown Lehigh Acres could become County Commission seat 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If the taxpayers and voters in Lehigh Acres do not step up downtown Lehigh Acres could become County Commission seat 2 not 5 in the redistricting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Options 6a and 6b so the map below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-embedpress-document embedpress-document-embed ep-doc-embedpress-pdf-1634420511344\" style=\"height:600px;width:600px\"><div style=\"height:600px;width:600px\" class=\"embedpress-embed-document-pdf embedpress-pdf-1634420511344\" data-emid=\"embedpress-pdf-1634420511344\" data-emsrc=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/2021-Redistricting_Alternative-6A-and-6B.pdf\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NAACP leaders have offered their own redistricting map\u00a0after rejecting seven maps offered to county commissioners by Lee County staff as discriminatory, saying they don&#8217;t meet the basic criteria of creating a minority-majority county commission\u00a0district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lee County Commissioners have scheduled hearings on the proposed redistricting for Tuesday, Oct. 19 at 9:30&nbsp;a.m. in the commission chamber at the Old County&nbsp;Courthouse, 2120 Main Street, Fort Myers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Additional hearings are scheduled for Nov. 2 at 6 p.m. and&nbsp;Nov. 16 at 9:30 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the taxpayers and voters in Lehigh Acres do not step up downtown Lehigh Acres could become County Commission seat 2 not 5 in the redistricting. Options 6a and 6b&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":50938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50939,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50936\/revisions\/50939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}