Hearing To Be Set On Sussex Redistricting Plan

Council asked to reconsider district lines in resort area

Georgetown — The only questions being raised about the county council’s proposed redistricting map deal with how the lines are being drawn in eastern Sussex County.

During the public comment portion of the agenda, Catherine Ward, president of the League of Women Voters of Sussex County, asked council to reconsider the importance of communities of interest in the resort area. She noted the proposed map has South Bethany in District 5 and Bethany Beach in District 4. “How can you separate the resort areas with their particular interests?” she asked.

She also questioned District 5 that spans across the southern section of the county from one border to the other. “In this district the interests are terribly varied,” she said. District 5 ­– held by Vance Phillips – not only includes Laurel and Delmar in western Sussex, but also includes Dagsboro, Millsboro and Frankford in central Sussex and Fenwick Island and South Bethany along the coast.

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