I floated an idea last week about creating a "federal" system within the city that gives significant administrative authority and political representation to neighborhood-sized districts. The general idea seems to be agreeable to the public (though the details of such a scheme likely need to be refined a little more).

If we are going to go the "districts" route instead of managing everything about the city through central ministries, I propose the rapid formation of several specific districts as local administrative units whose authority shall remain subordinate to that of this Council. There are two things I would like to accomplish by this. Forming existing population centers into districts, and creating expansion districts so that new immigrants have a designated place to settle.

Expansion district

Immigrants need a way to get a plot or at least a room. Right now, they are claiming or being given random empty plots in the city, because we have no plan in place. This is a terrible thing for future city planning efforts, so we need to change this situation now.

To address this, I am proposing we designate the 14 ANFA housing units east of the wheat farm as "East Village district", and permit new immigrants to claim the houses there. We should assign someone in Aytos to be district administrator to keep track of who lives there and what houses are occupied or vacant. Whoever takes this job could also be in charge of "newfriend hospitality" for Aytos, along the lines of stratmatt's ideas in our other thread. (Actually all of this is basically just restating stratmatt's ideas from the other thread).

Existing population centers

EgX has proposed forming a district in Southeast downtown comprising the plots of 4 longstanding residents, in addition to a few expansion plots to the south. It is small and has ony a small population, but since kevalalajnen plans to build an an apartment again it is expected that in the long term this area will have a population in the appropriate range.

There is another cluster of existing residents in the northwest corner of the island, including Skeleton_Stalin as well as "Sunshine Apartments".

For both of these areas, I think it should mostly be up to the existing residents to decide what they want their district borders to look like; they best know the areas they live in, and what neighbors they feel comfortable joining up with. We on the Council should encourage this activity, and agree to formalize reasonable district proposals that have the consent of the residents affected.

I will make a separate thread for creation of each district; that way each district will have it's own official "charter" as part of the Council record.