The Jackson City Council approved the consideration of five ordinances but tabled a consideration to reapportion the nine Council Districts of the City of Jackson during their monthly meeting at City Hall, Tuesday.

City Council member Paul Taylor highlighted two of the items.

Taylor said Jackson Mayor Scott Conger has the authority to enter into a purchase/sell agreement with Georgia Pacific – who is considering the location for a new project or plant in Jackson.

There are approximately 240 acres involved at the site which is located off Highway 223 in Jackson and served by a railroad line.

It had been selected to join the Select Tennessee Certified Sites program, which has helped communities prepare industrial sites for private investment and job creation since 2012, according to the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development.

“We also had a number of rezoning requests which went through without a lot of comment,” Paul Taylor said, “But perhaps the most important thing today, which we decided to table for a week is our redistricting … trying to make sure we are going to establish good, equitable districts for the future of Jackson.”

During a 10-year span from 2010 to 2020 – while the central part of the city lost population, the population continues to grow in the northwest portion of the city.

The population shifts over the last decade meant the number of residents in previously drawn districts were unbalanced with major population differences from the North districts and the remainder of the county.

District 7 represents the area where most growth has occurred.

(PHOTO: Harrell C. Carter, Jr. (left) president, Jackson-Madison County NAACP Branch, discussed reapportion of the nine Council Districts during the City Council meeting, Tuesday at City Hall. Stan Pilant (right), is the City of Jackson Engineer)