The National Park Service today is updating the National Capital Planning Commission on its proposal to replace the existing temporary visitor screening facility at the Washington Monument with a permanent one.
The Park Service will present five options, four of which would dig a security facility into the mound sloping up to the monument — accessed by ramps and pathways — and require the monument’s elevator to be extended downward to meet visitors. A fifth option places the screening facility on the monument’s plaza.
A public comment session is scheduled for Nov. 8.
The temporary structure now in place was attached to the monument shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
