Trump's Golf Course Overhaul Includes $300M Seawall

The Trump administration without fanfare has submitted a 55-page blueprint for review by federal planners for the makeover it wants to carry out on Washington's East Potomac Golf Links, a draft that fills in some answers and leaves others blank. The plan calls for creating an18-hole championship course mapped out by Fazio Design and wrapping Hains Point in a $304.5 million seawall that would take up to 3½ years to build. It leans heavily on Trump's posts describing the century-old site as "dilapidated" and a "National Disgrace" but omits basic details like the golf project's cost, funding source, and green fees, the Washington Post reports.

The redesign, which the Post has seen, would displace long-standing public uses of the spot like walking, biking, fishing, picnicking, and a historic mini-golf course. It's already tied up in federal court, where a judge has limited tree removal and could soon be asked to block the course's closure. The National Capital Planning Commission is to take up the blueprint on Dec. 3; the Trump administration has said it will close East Potomac to start the work on Nov. 15.