⚠️ ACTION ALERT: The National Park Service has opened an additional public comment period on its Assessment of Effects Report for the proposed 250-foot arch at Memorial Circle — the official Section 106 review of how it would affect the Lincoln Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington House, and the historic landscape between them. Comments are due July 30, 2026.
The Park Service's own report finds the arch would adversely affect more than twenty historic places and would obstruct the designed view between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington House. Comments count for more in your own words — even one personal sentence helps.
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I am commenting on the Assessment of Effects Report for the proposed Triumphal Arch at Memorial Circle. The Park Service's own report finds that the arch would adversely affect more than twenty historic places, including the Lincoln Memorial, Arlington House, Arlington National Cemetery, and the Memorial Avenue corridor — a landscape designed a century ago around the open view between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington House as a symbol of national reunification. The report acknowledges the arch would obstruct that view, and that the historic granite pylons at Memorial Circle "would be removed or diminished." I ask the Park Service to fully evaluate alternatives that would avoid these harms — including smaller designs and other locations — to assess the effects of years of extended-hours construction beside Arlington National Cemetery, and to complete all required studies before concluding the Section 106 process.
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