Posted on 11/29/2017 2:27:38 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
After making its way through local approvals, the Obama Presidential Center (OPC), proposed for Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side, will now face its first round of federal review.
Set to take up over 20 acres of the Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux-designed park, the future of the OPC is now in doubt after becoming entwined with the merger of the nearby Jackson and South Shore golf courses. Because the two projects would monumentally alter usage patterns in the historic park, an environmental review process has been triggered for each proposal under both the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA).
Beginning this Friday, December 1st, and continuing for an unspecified length of time, the review process will open a series of meetings for the federal government and the relevant agencies to evaluate the OPC’s environmental impacts.
It remains unclear how quickly the OPC will make its way through the federal review process, or what changes the government may require. Previously, approvals were handled by the city of Chicago under Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who many felt was fast-tracking the project along. But the inclusion of federal and state-level regulators in the process is a new wrinkle.
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The Kenyanesian Usurper’s shrine should be indefinitely delayed by an environmental review process.
Good grief! Barf city. Uggo.
Betcha Trump’s library will be spectacular.
LOL! Construction of the Obama Library is being hamstrung by environmental lawyers.
Irony: The Mark of Quality Literature.
Hoisted on their own petard! Hoo yeah!
There happens to be an endangered mouse with ginormous ears that flourishes on the specific land that is in question. It’s doubtful that Obama will get the green light he is looking for.
That’s the endangered Kenyan Choom Mouse.
Sprinkle it with laxative-laden bread crumbs
Let the pigeons loose!
Previous Pres libraries were built mostly with private Donations.
Obama’s will be built with TAX DOLLARS.
Stunningly appropriate...
What a waste of 20 acres.
All that Concrete will cause Global Warming
graffiti artists dream ,LOL
- Lots of paper for visitors.
- An opportunity to leave our artistic impressions of Obama.
- Filled with the aura of Obama's vision for America.
- Plenty of shelf space for every coherent Obama writing.
I'd visit that library every morning if I lived in the South side of Chicago - the baddest part of town. It would be nice to pay my respects to Obama regularly while he's still alive. I was disgusted when they buried Teddy Kennedy in Arlington and deprived so many of the chance to share a beer with him . . . second hand.
Will the nobama “library” contain his birth certificate ? ??
Will the nobama “library” contain his birth certificate ? ??
Down Low Club meetings on Tuesdays in the basement.
That depiction of the OPC is missing the planned minaret that will be used to call people to prayer several times a day.
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