Suburban, Bend districts will shrink in revised maps
A delay in U.S. Census data prods lawmakers to seek extension of July 1 deadline.
State legislative districts on Portland's west and east sides, plus Central Oregon, will have to shrink in the next redrawing of boundary lines because their population growth exceeded the average in the past decade.
Members of the Senate Redistricting Committee also were told that federal census data, the basis for redrawing the district lines, will be released a month after the state constitutional deadline of July 1. Democratic and Republican committee leaders, plus their counterparts in the House, asked the Legislature's lawyers to seek an extension from the Oregon Supreme Court.