Few Changes in 8th District Under Proposed Redistricting Bills

City Council will hold a public hearing Thursday on two different maps. The major differences between the maps lay mostly in the in Northeast Philadelphia.

Neither map shows a change to Chestnut Hill. The 8th District, which was shown by 2010 U.S. Census data to be about for each district, which is just above 152,000 residents.

Both proposals have the 8th district actually losing part of the Ward 11 to the 5th District, but picking up nearly half of Ward 49 from the 9th District, and a small part of Ward 42, which was previously split between the 7th, 5th and 9th districts.

Ward 9 will remain unaffected if either of these proposed maps passes.

The two bills will come to a public hearing at City Hall Thursday, 11 a.m., with a meeting of the Committee of the Whole following to take possible action on the results of the hearing.