The Los Angeles City Council approved councilmembers’ changes to the original map submitted by the citizen-led redistricting commission. The council approved Nov. 9 most amendments made by the newly-formed Ad Hoc Redistricting Committee, which first met on Nov. 5. The committee includes council members Nithya Raman, Mitch O’Farrell, Bob Blumenfield, Kevin de Leon, Paul Koretz, and Curren Price, with Council President Nury Martinez as chair of the committee. The original citizen-led Redistricting Commission submitted their proposed map to the council in October after spending nearly a year listening to 15,000 public and written testimonies from Angelenos. The commission’s recommended map reshaped several key districts in the city, including Paul Krekorian’s District 2 and Raman’s District 4, and proposed an entirely new district for the west San Fernando Valley, which Krekorian or Raman would oversee, but left that final decision up to the city council. Unhappy with the proposed map, however, …