SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Salem city council is facing a numbers problem: Its West Salem district grew too fast, and now has more people than the other seven wards.
The city tries to divide its wards equally among its population.
The Salem Journal Statesman reports the solution could be to cut a portion of the West Salem ward and put it in another district. That could pose problems, one neighborhood association chair says, when a district is in parts of two counties.
The city’s urban planning manager tells the newspaper the process is still preliminary and the city is not yet “drawing lines on a map.”
