Park Service backs Trump’s 250-foot D.C. arch despite finding it would disrupt landmark sightlines

At 250 feet, the arch would stand about 2.5 times as high as the 99-foot Lincoln Memorial and less than half as high as the 555-foot Washington Monument. The report says it would disturb sightlines connecting those landmarks, the Jefferson Memorial and dozens of other historic sites, yet supports the location because the same symbolic landscape that makes it sensitive also makes it suitable for the project.