District 3’s new borders set in Seattle Redistricting Commission’s final* map
The Seattle Redistricting Commission has settled on new borders for the city’s council districts that will shave off only small areas of District 3 representing Capitol Hill and the Central District to help balance disproportionate population growth in the city’s core.
The vote for the new Seattle City Council borders came Monday as the commissioners are nearing finalization of the new districts, backing off a last-minute adjustment that would have also carved off a portion of the University of Washington area to join D3 represented by Kshama Sawant.
A final vote on the plan is…