Residents push for expanding Baltimore County Council, citing need for more diversity

About 20 Baltimore County residents crowded into a conference room at a library branch in Woodlawn to plead for representation that looked more like them. The County Council has had seven members since its founding in 1956. Since then, the county’s population has more than tripled, from 270,273 to 854,535, according to a work group looking at the question of expanding the council.