Third in a series. 

Re: “CW Parcel Tax – 10 Years at Least”

It may not have been noted before the election, but a portion of the open-ended clean-water parcel tax that was the centerpiece of successful Measure CW, will be channeled into still-invisible Parcel B, the long-promised Downtown development.

“Part of it will go to Parcel B,” said Mayor Jim Clarke, “because, other than the West End of Culver City, all of the urban stormwater runoff goes through the Ballona Creek.

“The calculation was based on the acreage. Four percent was judged to be our portion of the Ballona Creek watershed.”

Speaking of Parcel B, when does the mayor finally expect movement on the plot of land between The Culver Hotel and Trader Joe’s?

“We are very, very close,” said Mr. Clarke, not the first time that this judgment has been made.

“I think you are going to see, for sure, breaking ground within the first quarter of the new year.”

Since he so broadly missed the call on this week’s White House race, the mayor said he did not want to be pinned down on a groundbreaking between January and March.

Not that it necessarily matters.

No one nearby could remember whether this will be the third or fourth Parcel B groundbreaking – without any further progress.

(To be continued)