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(b) accomplish the election date revision made pursuant to Section 5.1 (c) of the Charter. Accordingly, the terms of office of the Mayor and City Commissioners which would otherwise expire in November 2009 shall instead expire in November 2010 and the terms of office of the City Commissioners which would otherwise expire in November of2011 shall instead expire in November 2012, Residential Boundary Areas, The City shall be divided into four (4) residential areas, The Northern Residential Area shall be called Seat L The Central Residential Area shall be called Seat 2, The Southern Residential Area shall be called Seat 3 and the Mid-South Residential Area shall be called Seat 4, One Commissioner shall reside in the Northern Residential Area (Seat 1), one Commissioner shall reside in the Central Residential Area (Seat 2); one Commissioner shall reside in the Southern Residential Area (Seat 3); and one Commissioner shall reside in the Mid-South Residential Area (Seat 4), Persons running from a particular Residential Area must be a resident of the Residential Area which s/he proposes to represent on the Commission at the time of qualifying, at the time of his/her election and must continue to reside in such Residential Area during his/her term of office, Commissioners holding Seats 1, 2, 3 or 4 are collectively referred to as the "Residential Area Commissioners", individually as a "Residential Area Commissioner", (c) Description of Seat areas, Seat 1 encompasses the northern residential area of the City and shall consist of all addresses north of 178th Street to the northern corporate City limits, Seat 2 encompasses the central residential area of the City and shall consist of all addresses south of 178th and north of the center line of 172nd Street Seat 3 encompasses the southern residential area of the City and shall consist of all addresses south of Sunny Isles Boulevard (SR 826) to the southern corporate City limits, Seat 4 encompasses the mid-south residential area of the City and shall consist of all addresses from the south side of 172nd Street south to and including Sunny Isles Boulevard (SR 826), A diagram of the redrawn residential boundary areas, showing the addresses within each Seat, is attached hereto as Exhibit "A", (d) Revision of Residential Boundary areas, The City Commission may from time to time redraw the boundaries of the residential areas to ensure proportionality based on population growth, The boundary changes shall be made available to the public immediately upon the adoption of the Ordinance. The boundaries of each residential area shall be established by Ordinance based on population, Said Ordinance is required to be adopted by a super-majority vote or 4-1 vote of the City Commission, Limitations on Len~hs of Service, No person shall serve as Mayor for more than two elected terms, No person shall serve as a Commissioner for more than two elected terms, A "term" shall be deemed commenced upon election, whether or not it is actually completed, except that a vacancy being filled for less than two years remaining in the filling of that term shall not be counted as a "term" under this section, (e) Pagd of 7