a couple days ago i told tom mitchell that obama's fantasy tower was 18 stories high. he said no, it's not that tall, and he didn't even want a towering monument to himself. like he didn't want to appear too grand? like his minions are the ones urging the tower. today i learn from the washington examiner, tom was right, i was wrong, it isn't that tall, it's now 23 stories. up to the sky! mr. o can look down on everyone! all the little people!

"This will play out over 2018 and involve several meetings of the 'official consulting parties' along with extensive written input from those parties," Birnbaum explained in an email. "A determination could be made that this are no adverse effects and the OPC would proceed (highly unlikely); a determination could be made that there are adverse effects and a process of mitigation could be developed and approved by all of the consulting parties in a formal Memorandum of Agreement (MOA); a determination could be made that there are adverse effects, but the consulting parties don’t agree on mitigation, then this would likely end in litigation."

This article, despite the unfortunate "battle" in the headline, does a good job of explaining the process. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-battle-to-shut-down-obamas-presidential-center/article/2645882 

the unfortunate thing is calling it a battle to shut down the obama center, which is a false representation of the battle, the battle is against the taking of public land for private use to build a massive towering monument to an ex-president.
'battle' is the right word, though people often want to soften it. can we call it a 'struggle'? but in citizen jane: battle for the city, it was most definitely a battle, and it is a battle now, really the same one continued in a different city. it's not like the war on terror, sure, but this is a battle against the same empirical forces. the same hubris. now it's our home we're fighting for, and our green space.