For the first time in more than 50 years, Ravenna’s ward and precinct boundaries are set be redrawn.
City Council on March 23 agreed to form a committee to review the redistricting process and to ultimately pass a resolution approving new ward maps.
Since 1953, Ohio law has required city councils to redraw ward boundaries every decade, with the boundaries based on the most recent Census counts. The wards “shall be as nearly equal in population as possible and composed of contiguous and compact territory, bounded by natural boundaries or street lines,” the law states…