His experience in community organizing, he says, makes running for City Council District 3 a natural step. “I see the work of sitting on the City Council as an extension of community-building,” he says. See a map of the City Council districts here. Many of the district’s neighborhoods had been outside the city limits before Santa Fe’s annexation push began in the 1990s. “On the Southside, we don’t need housing development as much as we need commercial development,” Acosta says.

Source: CNN June 14, 2023 11:33 UTC