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Fulshear council reviews redistricting options; council signals preference for compact plan and asks consultant to keep Bonterra intact
Summary
Consultant Bickerstaff presented four illustrative redistricting maps to the Fulshear City Council Sept. 2. Councilmembers favored Plan 3 — a more compact option that relaxes incumbent-preservation constraints — and asked the consultant to modify Plan 3 to avoid splitting Bonterra, then return with the adjusted map.
Fulshear — The City Council held a substantive review of redistricting options during its Sept. 2 meeting, with outside counsel from Bickerstaff, Heath Delgado & Acosta explaining the technical approach and legal constraints and councilmembers signaling a preference for a compact plan that minimizes elongated districts.
Attorney Sidney (Sid) Falk with the Austin law firm Bickerstaff led the presentation and described the technical data choices: because 2020 census blocks and population data are now stale for Fulshear’s rapid growth, the consultant used parcel-group aggregates (about 138 parcel groups) and city-supplied apartment/unit counts to estimate population. Falk said the consultants’ estimate produced an ideal district size of 7,745 persons per single-member district for the city’s five districts.
Falk described four…
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