Following the release of the 2020 U.S. census, Comal County commissioners approved redrawn precinct lines to balance the population among the districts.
Comal County Judge Sherman Krause on Nov. 4 presented the proposed boundary lines during a public hearing, and the commissioners voted in favor of the plan during a Nov. 9 meeting.
The county has a population of 161,501 residents, according to census data, and the plan will reallocate a portion of Precinct 2 to Precinct 1 in an effort to better balance the total population in each district.
In order to balance each precinct, the population of all four precincts would need to be at or near 40,375 residents, Krause said.
