Toledo/Cleveland/Youngstown can actually be combined down from 5 to 3. Then you create a brand new CD in the city of Columbus.
OK - Sutton lost the Cuyahoga and Medina portions of her district. So combine Sutton-Ryan and then Kucinich-Fudge.
Also the 9th should take in as many Dems as possible in Lorain County.
Renacci would get a pretty big chunk of Cuyahoga County (definitely winnable - State House seats 16 17 18 are all R; unfortunately he’ll probably have to absorb 1.5 Dem state house seats - 14 was 64-36 D, 13 and 15 unopposed).
But then the district wouldn’t stretch to Canton-Akron.
Maybe shift Gibbs there, and then split up the 18th.
The 12th is at 756K, 35K over ideal size, but the adjoining
15th is 39K under, 7th is 38K under, 4th is 88K under, and the 18th (which I’m now planning to split up) is 68K under.
Columbus is Democrat so maybe you’re suggesting splitting it three ways instead of two.