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Trump's Proposed 250-Foot Arch Faces Legal Challenge Over Sightlines
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In Short: President Donald Trump's proposed 250-foot arch near Arlington National Cemetery is facing legal opposition from three Vietnam veterans and architectural historian Calder Loth.
President Donald Trump's proposed 250-foot arch near Arlington National Cemetery is facing legal opposition from three Vietnam veterans and architectural historian Calder Loth.
The Trump administration has cited a 1925 law that authorized a pair of 166-foot columns, which were never built, to justify the project.
The administration's planning document acknowledges that the arch will have 'adverse effects on historic properties.
The legal battle over the 'Great Triumphal Arch' has been ongoing for months.
The arch, which Trump claims would be the largest in the world, is intended to be built near Arlington National Cemetery, the final resting place for over 400,000 military service members.
What's still developing
- The nation's capital was designed to keep historic landmarks from being obscured by other structures, Sansone said.
- The Trump administration is being challenge of a proposed arch that critics say will obstruct historical sightlines.
- "So our plaintiffs… are really sort of concerned about the impact that this sort of enormous structure is going to have on that sort of historic symbolic view that each of them finds really meaningful," he added.
Sources
- Fox Newslink