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(A) Fractional portions of such districts shall be rounded to the nearest integer to determine the number of council districts required for that region. (B) Numbers from 0.10 to 0.49 shall be rounded down to the nearest integer. Numbers from 0.50 to 0.99 shall be rounded up to the nearest integer. (5) There shall be no partisanship or racism in drawing council district boundaries. (6) No council district shall be drawn to unduly favor or penalize an incumbent. (7) Council district boundaries shall be drawn without regard to any incumbent's residential location, any incumbent's ability to run for re- election in that incumbent's current council district, or whether any incumbent faces another incumbent for re- election. (8) Community of interest or community of common interest shall be respected and be kept together in the plan, if practicable. (9) Council districts shall be drawn to be as compact as practicable while maintaining the community or communities of interest. (10) The County shall use to the extent possible a reasonably current computer mapping program and shall make the program accessible to the public, if practicable. (11) All parts of each council district shall be contiguous to the council district and be reachable by roads internal to the council district. (12) There shall be no gerrymandering for any reason. (13) The drawing of bizarre council district shapes shall be avoided even if a previous plan was designed using an odd, unusual, or illogical shape. (14) There shall be no fracturing, packing, or cracking of council districts, if practicable. (15) The one person, one vote principle shall be used. (16) If the commission establishes criteria in addition to those enumerated in the Charter and this chapter, the commission shall use impartial criteria that meet standard of fairness principles. (17) If practicable, socio- economic criteria used in developing the plan, not specifically set forth in this chapter, shall be identified, documented, and approved by majority vote of the commission, before drawing proposed council district boundaries. If practicable, socio- economic groups shall be kept together. Article 4. Plan Deviations. Section Total Deviation. (a) The total deviation for the entire plan shall be less than ten percent. (b) If a population of permanent residents must be assigned to a different council district to ensure that the total deviation is less than ten percent and such equalization involves reassigning any portion of a subdivision, the entire subdivision shall be moved as a unit, if practicable. 4