Portland’s new charter has the city newly divided into 4 precincts electing 3 councilors each (no longer holding administrative portfolios). There’s three plans thatre pretty similar, they have

• everything east of 82nd
• North and inner northeast
• Inner southeast
• West-of-the-river plus some portion of the east side

This last one is where the plans really vary, the included area is either

1. Sellwood, which kinda relates better to downtown as a streetcar suburb than the rest of the eastside where you have to get past a railroad moat, through an industrial area, and then you’re still kinda nowhere
2. Lloyd Center, where they first thought the freeway crossing would make for a new downtown in the ‘60s, but still serves as a beachhead of inner city life with new towers and a baseball stadium potentially replacing the mall
3. A few blocks in all along the bank of the Willamette, the areas once relating to a working waterfront which in either industrial use or redevelopment will consist of a distinct zone