Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
  - Where do people in your community gather or socialize?
  - How and where does your community access services (healthcare, transportation, educational services, etc.)?

Examples of activities and services: Shopping areas, schools and universities, libraries, parks, lakes, rivers, places of worship, healthcare services, public transport, local nonprofit organizations, etc.

Your response: My community extends from the city of San leandro to the top of Oakland and includes the middle section of the East Bay Bart Stations.

Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
  - What are the cultural bonds in your community?
  - If your community has a shared history, what is it?

Examples of cultural or historical interests: Religious groups, ethnic groups, languages, age groups, immigration status, historic or arts districts, etc.

Your response: My community is the people of color and families who have lived here for decades and have seen the large increases in housing prices. It is a mixture of Black, Asian and Latino people where the population is majority minority and very metropolitan.

Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
  - Where are residents employed?
  - If there are environmental concerns in your community, what are they?

Examples of economic or environmental interests: Tourism industry, agricultural workers, mining town, manufacturing center, polluted natural resource, unemployment problem, etc.

Your response: We are located in the bay area so we have a great variety of economic interests such as from the port, but also tourism (from the coliseum) and other service industry jobs. Residents that live along the 880 freeway have long complained of the environmental impacts of that highway.

Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
  - What should politicians and/or map drawers know about your community?
  - What are the needs of your community?
  - Is there anything else you want to tell us about your community?

Examples of needs or concerns: Keep community in the same district or separate into multiple districts, shared policy concerns, need for a social service, relationship to other nearby communities, issues with current district lines

Your response: My community has roughly the same average housing prices through the flats and rising greatly in the hills. My community has a great need for more affordable housing so that folks can afford to live here.