Obama Beats Organized Community in Court

For now, park advocates are not giving up the fight. “Today’s ruling, while disappointing, is by no means the final word,” says Charles Birnbaum, president & CEO of The Cultural Landscape Foundation. “Though the carefully orchestrated local approvals process has been enabled by pliant municipal officials, there are still federal-level reviews underway for this nationally significant work of landscape architecture that is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.”