The Akron area would see a shake-up in state legislative districts under proposed maps unveiled Friday by the Ohio Apportionment Board.One skinny House district would run from northern Summit County to southern Stark County.And the state Senate district held by Sen. Frank LaRose, R-Copley Township, would consist of northern and western Summit, western Stark County and all of Wayne County.“It makes for an interesting district and a diverse district,” LaRose said. “I’ll have everything from Twinsburg to Sugar Creek.“In some ways, that’s kind of a microcosm of Ohio,” he added, referring to the high-density suburban areas, wealthier communities and rural farm country.He joked that his 2009 Ford Escape already has 85,000 miles and will have plenty more as he travels from the northeastern tip of Summit to the southwestern tip of Wayne.Unlike the newly drawn U.S. congressional lines that zipped through the Ohio legislature this week, the General Assembly does not vote on maps for state legislative districts. A majority of the Apportionment Board must OK the boundaries for all 99 House districts and 33 Senate districts.The maps were prepared for the board by its staff. The panel will review them Monday, then probably vote on them later in the week. Members of the public were also invited to submit proposals.Both chambers’ Democratic caucuses, the Ohio Campaign for Accountable Redistricting and Illinois state Rep. Mike Fortner submitted proposals to the board Friday. Fortner, who was the top Republican on Illinois’ redistricting committee, also submitted a plan for Ohio’s congressional lines.As they do in both chambers, Republicans hold a majority of seats on the Apportionment Board. The panel’s members consist of four Republicans — Gov. John Kasich, Senate President Tom Niehaus, Auditor Dave Yost and Secretary of State Jon Husted — and one Democrat, House Minority Leader Armond Budish.The proposed map merges Budish’s district in Cuyahoga County with that of state Rep. Kenny Yuko, a Democrat from Richmond Heights who can’t run next year because of term limits.Mike Dittoe, a spokesman for the House Republicans, said the lines were fairly drawn as a result of population shifts in the state.Budish questioned the constitutionality of the proposals. “Never before in Ohio’s history have voters in state legislative districts been subjected to such a blatant, hyper-partisan gerrymander,” he wrote in a statement.While LaRose’s district may grow in terms of territory, Sen. Tom Sawyer, D-Akron, would see his get smaller. His district now includes part of Akron, southern Summit County and all of Portage County.Under the new plan, Sawyer’s district would take over all of Akron and be contained within Summit County. Portage would be folded into a district with parts of Geauga and Lake counties.“It’s kind of a mixed reaction on my part,” Sawyer said. “The pieces that I would be representing, if the map goes through, are places that I’ve served one way or the other over the last 35 years and I’ve enjoyed serving every one of them. ... I’ve enjoyed serving Portage for most of the last 20 years and I’ll miss that.”He said that it’s a good idea to have Akron represented by a single senator. Akron is divided now between LaRose and Sawyer.But Sawyer, who had not analyzed the proposed map in depth, questioned some districts statewide. The goal must be to keep districts compact and some are not, he said.For example, House District 38 would stretch from northern Summit to southern Stark. It would include part of Bath Township, Boston Heights, Boston Township, Clinton, Copley Township, Fairlawn, New Franklin, Norton, Peninsula, Richfield, Richfield Township, and Sagamore Hills Township in Summit; and Beach City, Brewster, Canal Fulton, Lawrence Township, part of Massillon, Sugar Creek Township and part of Tuscarawas Township and Wilmot in Stark. Here are other House districts in Summit:• District 34 would include parts of Akron, Bath Township and Cuyahoga Falls.• District 35 would include parts of Akron, Barberton and Coventry and Springfield townships. • District 36 would include parts of Coventry, Cuyahoga Falls, Springfield, Green, Lakemore, Mogadore and Tallmadge.• District 37 would include part of Cuyahoga Falls, Hudson, Macedonia, Munroe Falls, Northfield Center Township, Northfield, Reminderville, Silver Lake, Stow, Twinsburg and Twinsburg Township.The Apportionment Board redraws the state’s legislative districts every 10 years to reflect changes in population after each census. Beacon Journal staff writer Rick Armon and the Associated Press contributed to this report.