Meyers' proposal to shift precinct lines fails

By Ken Fountain KFOUNTAIN@FORTBENDSTAR.COM

Longtime Fort Bend County Precinct 3 Commissioner Andy Myers faces the prospect of having to move out his home in order to run again following a party-line vote during the April 11 Com - missioners Court meeting. Meyers, a Republican who has served on the court for three decades, had offered an agenda item that would have switched two voting precincts, including the one that includes his Sugar Land house, in the currently drawn Precinct 3 to Precinct 4. The current maps were approved in a highly contentious 2021 redistricting vote following the 2020 Census.

In that map, which had only just been introduced by County Judge KP George, a Democrat, Meyers’ Precinct 3, which had been based in Katy, was shifted to the Sugar Land and Missouri City areas, according to previous Fort Bend Star coverage. But it excluded the voting precinct that includes the Sugar Creek subdivision where Meyers has owned his primary residence for decades.

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