About District 5

District 5 is northeast Banning, largely north of I-10 and east of North San Gorgonio Avenue.

District 5 is northeast Banning, largely north of I-10 and east of North San Gorgonio Avenue. It is home to working families, seniors, long-time residents, and neighbors who deserve a City Hall that gets the basics right. With nearly 6,000 residents, District 5 is a majority-Latino district and one of the most important voices in Banning’s future.

But District 5 is more than a set of boundaries. East Banning was shaped by generations of people who made a home here: Cahuilla and Serrano peoples, Mexican-American railroad and agricultural workers connected to the historic barrios of La Chancla, El Sapo, and El Lagartijo, Black families who helped shape the Eastside through church life, education, homebuilding, and civic leadership, and Hmong families who began putting down roots here in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

This district has lived what happens when power moves without accountability. The freeway cut through parts of the old barrios. Black families displaced by Section 14 in Palm Springs rebuilt their lives in Banning. Hmong families arrived here as refugees and built community while facing language, economic, and cultural barriers. This district carries resilience, pride, and work still left to do.

District 5 deserves the basics done well and the bigger decisions done right. That means safe streets, clean neighborhoods, responsive city services, and growth that lowers costs instead of pushing families further behind. It means public investment people can actually see in their block, their bills, and their daily lives. And it means leadership that treats these things like the job, because they are. That is why I’m running: to make City Hall work better for the people who already call District 5 home.

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