Redistricting maps released by a judicial panel this week show changes to Minnesota's Congressional and legislative districts – and Minneapolis is next. A 24-member redistricting committee has redrawn boundaries of the city's 13 wards and will present a draft map for public comment at hearings on Feb. 29 and March 1. Minneapolis' population of 382,578 has barely changed in the last decade, but the panel is shifting ward lines to account for population losses in north Minneapolis, gains in the number of residents living downtown, and changes in the concentration of minority residents. The proposed changes would bump the McKinley neighborhood into the fourth ward and the Hawthorne neighborhood into the fifth to give both population-losing districts in north Minneapolis enough residents. And while the seventh ward currently encompasses downtown and neighborhoods to the west, the draft map would move Downtown East and part of Downtown West into the third ward, which crosses over the river onto the eastern bank. The sixth ward would gain more East African and Latino residents by picking up part of Cedar-Riverside – home to many Somali immigrants - picking up more of Phillips West and East Phillips, and losing much of Whittier. None of the changes will move members of the City Council into different wards, according to Redistricting Group Chairman Barry Clegg. The proposed map is available here: http://www.minneapolismn.gov/www/groups/public/@clerk/documents/webcontent/wcms1p-087634.pdf