Members of the general public would apply to be on the redistricting commission. The oversight committee would then draw 50 applications at random; each current alderman could strike one from further consideration.

The oversight panel would then draw at random five redistricting commissioners from the remaining pool. Those five would then select the four remaining commissioners with the goal of “ensuring and balancing” diversity.

Areas of residence, age, gender, race, sexual identity and orientation, ability and ethnicity would have to be taken into account, the legislation says.

The bill limits commission membership to people who have been registered to vote in the city for at least three years and who have voted in at least three of the past five elections.

The measure sets strict guidelines aimed at keeping people with political connections off the commission. Those barred from serving would include anyone appointed or elected to city or state office or candidates for those offices within the two previous years. A commissioner also could not have a spouse, child or parent in those categories.