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Farmers Branch committee adopts ‘Map 7’ as preferred plan to present to council
Summary
A Farmers Branch map-drawing committee voted unanimously to adopt a revised district map labeled “Map 7” as its preferred plan and to present Map 7 (with Map 4 as a secondary alternative) to the city council on June 7. The committee also approved minutes and cancelled its May 25 meeting.
A Farmers Branch map-drawing committee voted unanimously Thursday to adopt an updated district plan the group labeled Map 7 as its preferred map and to present Map 7 — with Map 4 as the alternate option — to the city council at a public hearing scheduled for June 7.
The committee began the meeting by approving the minutes by voice vote. Members spent most of the session adjusting precinct and census-block lines on a working copy of Map 6, discussing compactness and population deviation, and testing small changes aimed at improving visual compactness and keeping neighborhoods together. After reloading the baseline map (Map 6) and making a single-block adjustment to District 1, the group saved that version as Map 7 and then took a show-of-hands vote to adopt it as the committee’s top recommendation.
Why it matters: the committee’s recommendation will be delivered to the city council for a public hearing. Council members may accept, modify or…
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