February 19, 2007
City Council redistricting: Back on the agenda?

As you may recall, the City of Houston will be required to redraw City Council boundaries, adding in two new single-member districts, when its population hits 2.1 million. It looked like that process was going to get started last August, but a subsequent - and in my opinion, suspect - census estimate left us short of the mark and caused the matter to be shelved. Well, according to Matt Stiles, there's been yet another estimate (PDF) that would put us well north of the 2.1 million mark. Is this a sign that redistricting will be back on the agenda? Too early to tell for sure, but I rather expect this will be noticed and the subject will be brought up. Stay tuned.

Posted by Charles Kuffner on February 19, 2007 to Local politics
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