First of two parts
[img]1792|right|Jim Clarke||no_popup[/img]Spurred by what happened at last evening’s meeting, City Councilman Jim Clarke is launching perhaps the most ambitious project of his career:
To make uniform the crazy-quilt boundary lines of Culver City, which serpentine down and around, through and under Los Angeles.
The matter arose when Mayor Meghan Sahli-Wells asked for a show of hands on the dais for exploring changing the name of Washington Place to honor jazz great Louis Armstrong.
Mr. Clarke, the Council’s idea person, said this morning he is not backing a name-change. He just raised his hand at the meeting because the mayor needed two other supporters to keep her idea alive.
“If the mayor can go and get some information, that is fine,” he said.
Was Mr. Clarke the first person to wonder if, since Washington Boulevard and Washington Place run side by side, “did they run out of presidents?”
“Lots of problems” lie ahead with a name-change, he said, since half of Washington Place is in Culver City and half in Los Angeles.
“There is a larger point, though, I wanted to talk to the mayor about,” said Mr. Clarke. “It seems if someone on the Council has an initiative, that person should be able to pursue it. Does everything have to be handled by the staff?
“Sometimes you can get a read,” which led the third-year Councilman to a banner point.
“One of the things I am interested in, and I have talked to my counterparts on the L.A. City Council, is readjusting our boundary lines in Culver City.”
(To be continued)
