The 116-year-old law that might stop Trump’s arch
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This 116-year-old law might stop Trump’s arch from being built. For decades, the planning commission reviewing construction projects in Washington has stood by the principle that the federal law limiting the height of buildings in the capital applies to federal projects. But now that President Trump has proposed building a giant Triumphal Arch, the commission, which is led by Trump allies, gave an early endorsement to a different, more lenient view. On Thursday, the National Capital Planning Commission considered a new interpretation of the 1910 Height of Buildings Act: that it was never meant to apply to federal projects, and certainly not to Mr. Trump’s 250-foot arch. The act “does not reference federal buildings,” the Interior Department wrote in a memo submitted to the panel, arguing that “Congress did not intend” for the law to be interpreted the way the commission had read it for nearly 90 years. Caption from article by Luke Broadwater, Emily Badger and Junho Lee, The New Yo
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