Drawing the lines

The Boerne City Council unanimously approved an updated district city map last week with some major districting changes to the downtown Boerne landscape.

But councilmembers have made it clear this will have little impact on how they operate. However, these changes may drastically impact the city council elections landscape, as hundreds of residents may find themselves in a new district.

The districts in Boerne were required to be redrawn after an imbalance in district populations became clear after the 2020 Census Bureau numbers were released. Before the districts were redrawn, District 2 had a population of 5,164 and District 4 had a population of 2,123 when the new census numbers were released.