Nashville’s city council districts are under revision.
Every decade, the city reexamines its population growth and redraws council and school board boundaries. The goal is to try to keep districts relatively equal in size. Currently, the main areas that need rebalancing are Nashville’s urban core and north and southeast regions.
The city has just released drafts of how to solve the under- and overpopulation in those districts. But the Planning Department’s Gregory Claxton expects the final maps to look quite different.
“We don’t anticipate taking this for adoption,” Claxton says. “We do expect this to change once we hear from the public.”
Starting Friday, community members can share their input online or in-person. Public meetings are scheduled throughout the latter half of October, and virtual sessions can be conducted by appointment.
Public meetings:
- Monday, Oct.18 at the Howard Office Building
- Thursday, Oct. 21 at the Madison Library
- Monday, Oct. 25 at the Southeast Library
- Wednesday, Oct. 27 at the Bordeaux Library
Drop-in hours at the Metro Office Building
- Wednesday, Oct. 20
- Tuesday, Oct. 26
- Thursday, Oct. 28
The city hopes to finalize district lines by mid-November and present them to Metro Council by January. The new political maps will take effect by the next council election in 2023.
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