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It case it's not obvious, it will be impossible to satisfy all criteria simultaneously. Drawing the districts requires deciding upon a balance. "Contiguous" means, roughly, that every part of a district is connected to another part, and "compact" means, roughly, that you can walk from any point in the district to any other without leaving the district. These criteria are designed to mitigate against gerrymandering, which implies drawing district lines to give an advantage to one political party. If the intent of Portland's reform is to assure that "communities of interest" have the same representation, and each community doesn't exist in a geographic cluster that amounts to 25% of Portland's population that invariably means violating the criteria of compactness, if not contiguity.

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