Charleston City Council set to take up redistricting plan

Charleston City Council will consider redistricting option at its meeting on Monday. City council will get its first looking at two options for redrawing the boundaries of twenty-wards based on the city’s 2020 population. By statute, the city must draw its ward map in a way that mostly fits with the county’s precincts. Charleston’s population, as of the 2020 census, is almost 49-thousand people. The goal is to split that number evenly into 20 wards of about 24-hundred people.