The Cobb Board of Commissioners will be asked on Tuesday to vote on a redistricting map to be recommended to the county’s legislative delegation.
Lines for the four commission districts will be drawn during the current legislative session, and the map proposed for Tuesday’s meeting does not call for dramatically shifting boundaries.
But some precincts in East Cobb would be redrawn in the map proposal by State Rep. Erick Allen, a Smyrna Democrat who heads the county’s legislative delegation.
More map details can be seen by clicking here.
District 2 commissioner Jerica Richardson, a Democrat, would lose the Willeo, Shallowford Falls and Sewell Mill 1 precinct and parts of the Sewell Mill 3 and Fullers Park precincts.
See the present District 2 map by clicking here.
They would move to District 3, represented by Republican JoAnn Birrell. Click here to see the present map.
She’s up for re-election this year, as is her fellow Republican Keli Gambrill of District 1 in North Cobb.
District 2 has the largest population of the four, with a 2020 Census total of 193,175, an increase of 1,638 from the last Census, and includes much of East Cobb and the Cumberland-Smyrna-Vinings area.
District 3, which stretches to the Town Center/KSU area, has a population of 189,682; the District 1 population is 190,629; and District 4, which covers most of South Cobb, the population is 192,663.
You can view more population data by clicking here.
If the commissioners approve the map recommendation, it would be only advisory.
In December, the Cobb Board of Education voted along party lines—it has a Republican majority—to recommend a map designed to keep that GOP edge.
Democrats hold a one-seat majority in the 21-member Cobb legislative delegation, which will make the final decisions for the school board and commission boundaries.
The commission meeting Tuesday also will include the first public hearings on code amendments (agenda item and proposed changes).
Topics of note include alcoholic beverage uses, regulation of health spas and short-term rentals, and traffic plan requirements for certain zoning and land-use permit applications.
Commissioners revise code amendments every January and don’t hear zoning cases during the month.
The meeting starts at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the second floor board room of the Cobb government building (100 Cherokee St., downtown Marietta), but it will be conducted in virtual format due to continuing COVID restrictions.
There will be two general comment sessions for residents, as well as the public hearing for the code amendments, that the public can participate in virtually. The details can be found in the full agenda packet by clicking here.
The meeting will be live-streamed on the county’s website, cable TV channel (Channel 24 on Comcast) and Youtube page. Visit cobbcounty.org/CobbTV for other streaming options.
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