[img]1792|right|Jim Clarke||no_popup[/img]City Councilman Jim Clarke has been left untouched in the current kerfuffle over whether members of Grace Lutheran Church should be able to park around the corner in the first block of Farragut Drive. It has been off-limits to non-residents since 1982, and the church is hoping to change that.
Farragut activist Les Greenberg has criticized three Council members for alleged ethical infringements – potential failure to recuse themselves — as they oversee this stormy ongoing case, but has bypassed Mr. Clarke.
Does Mr. Clarke feel left out?
“Maybe he doesn’t know me,” said the Councilman whose ubiquity around the community tagged him as Mr. Everywhere.
“I have not gone back to see who endorsed me last year,” he said. “But I think some people on Farragut probably endorsed my re-election. I don’t know who goes to Grace Lutheran. But I am sure some of them endorsed me.
“During the discussion at last week’s Council meeting, I was calling upon the church, asking at what point in adding activities do you determine you need additional parking.”
Mr. Clarke described himself as “a half-loaf guy. I was supportive of the idea of doing a traffic impact study. But I also was supportive of the idea that Grace Lutheran needed to do a good faith effort to go out and try to find some additional parking.”
Color him purely neutral.
