Petitioning for this year's City Council elections could now be delayed due to a lawsuit
behalf of Asian American communities in south Queens that seek to alter the new council maps adopted during last year’s redistricting.
The group alleges that the council maps the commission approved for the areas of Richmond Hill and South Ozone Park violate the City Charter by carving up the area’s Asian American community, thus denying it “any reasonable chance of fair and effective representation.” ““As one of the fastest growing populations in the city, Richmond Hill/South Ozone Park has a thriving Asian American community made up of immigrant and native-born New Yorkers of Guyanese, Punjabi, Trinidadian, Surinamese, and Bengali descent,” said Jerry Vattamala, Democracy Program Director of AALDEF, in a statement.
AALDEF is asking the judge to delay petitioning for the upcoming City Council races, due to start next Tuesday, Feb. 28, until a revised redistricting plan that “complies with the Charter” is enacted.
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