City Council approved changes to their district boundaries Thursday after more than six months of public input and advisory committee meetings.
City Councilman Jalen McKee-Rodriguez offers his district map for display during a preliminary City Council meeting about redistricting in 2021.After some 11th-hour changes by a citizens advisory committee, San Antonio City Council unanimously approved the committee’s recommended map of redrawn council districts Thursday, moving roughly 40,000 residents from one district to another.
The districts remained largely unchanged from the last time the City Council viewed the map in April, whenof the committee they chose to redistribute residents across the 10 districts. That 23-member body, which was appointed by council members and the mayor, was designed to keep politics out of the redistricting process, which has in the past been done by council members themselves.
“Some of this stuff is disgusting,” said McKee-Rodriguez, who helped residents in his district successfully fight off aninto District 1. “We have to really have a conversation about who influences us and who influences our decisions. … That’s not a place for redistricting, when we’re talking about the goal of making sure that every person in our city has a vote.”
The new map redistributes the city’s residents following the 2020 census, which indicated that San Antonio had grown by roughly 100,000 residents since the 2010 census. Population growth inon the city’s North Side had outpaced that of other districts, requiring some neighborhoods to be moved into less-populous districts.
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