On June 6, 2023, City Council approved Resolution 23-18, appointing nine members to a citizen-led Redistricting Committee.

The Committee held two public meetings (June 20 and July 17) and discussed several boundary options. The Committee tried to avoid having districts cross Highway 59 and looked at various ways to eliminate the existing split of District 1 over Highway 59. The necessity of attaining population balance among the districts precluded using Highway 59 as an uncrossed boundary. The proposed plan crosses Highway 59 at two locations. While evaluating the boundary options, the Committee focused on the nine traditional redistricting criteria as adopted by City Council in Resolution 23-19. As determined by the 2020 Federal Census, the existing single-member districts currently have a maximum deviation of 22.62%. Plan A, as unanimously recommended by the Committee, has a maximum deviation of 6.76%, well below the allowable maximum of 10%.

As recommended, Plan A would result in the following three changes to the existing single-member districts:

Change area 1: Moves 1,740 persons from District 2 to District 1 by creating a triangle bound by Highway 6, Highway 59 and Ditch H and includes Meadows Lake, The Lakes, and The Village on Royal Oak subdivisions. 

Change area 2: Moves 2,198 persons from District 2 to District 4 by creating an "ice cream cone " shaped area bound by Highway 59, the Grand Parkway and the Brazos River and includes the Riverpark East and the Enclave at Riverpark subdivisions. 

Change area 3: Moves 2,884 persons from District 4 to District 3 by extending the current boundaries to include an area bound by Lexington Boulevard, along Sweetwater Boulevard to the Woodstream Trail / Ditch D and includes Woodstream, Oaks of Alcorn, Sweetbriar and Briarwood subdivisions. 

A copy of the proposed Plan A is attached.