1972 Proposals to maintain the Aguadilla Senate District

Main Proposal to Maintain the Aguadilla Senate Districts (Committee 2)

The Reason for the change is rather simple, As seen in the proposals to maintain the District of Aguadilla, there was not real way to maintain, equapopulous districts in a compact manner in 1972 - whilst maintaining the Aguadilla district. with each proposal taking questionable decitions to get close to the population requirements.

The main proposal, due to Ponce and Arecibo being legaly prevented from being excluded from Aguadilla to maintain those districts (See: la ley de minimos cambios), ended up having to go through the Corrillo central to have Aguadilla meet the population minimum, occuring alongside other controvercial changes (Such as Cataño with Arecibo).

The non-compact and controvercial changes led to an impass on the commission, leading them to eventually scrapping the District of Aguadilla alltogether (at the behest of the president of the commission) and creating the District of Carolina in the San Juan Metro so as to meet the population requirements and the compactness criterion.

The move was controvercial at the time in Aguadilla, with protests seeking to preserve the unpreservable district occuring, resulting in then Senate President Rafael Hernández Colón and the committee seeking to assure the people through PSAs that nothing could have been done(Source).