BY WILLIAM CRUM wcrum@opubco.com
Oklahoma City Council members agreed Tuesday to see how the electoral map would look if boundaries were redrawn to make Capitol Hill the focus of its own ward.
The current boundaries, adopted after the 2010 census, divide the area traditionally known as Capitol Hill among Wards 4, 6 and 7.
Ward 4 Councilman Pete White grew up in the old Capitol Hill in the 1940s and 1950s.
The community reached from the North Canadian — now Oklahoma — River to S 59 Street, between Bryant Avenue on the east and Pennsylvania or May Avenue on the west.
Churches included “Capitol Hill” in their names and teenagers attended Capitol Hill High School, he said.
White has proposed adding two wards to the city.
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