Former Baltimore City Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young is joining opponents of a plan to divvy up Baltimore County into nine council districts, saying it is gerrymandered.
Young is weighing in because he now lives in the county and he doesn’t like what the proposed plan would do to his neighborhood.
Young lives in Greenleigh which is in the same council district as Middle River, White Marsh and Perry Hall. A new redistricting map would slide Greenleigh into another district that includes Rosedale. Young said that’s to create a district in which a majority are people of color.
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