White House is expected to submit plans for new ballroom to planning commission this month

By GARY FIELDS and DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is expected to submit plans for President Donald Trump’s new ballroom to a federal planning commission this month, about three months after construction began.

Will Scharf, who was appointed by Trump as chairman of the National Capital Planning Commission, said at the panel’s monthly meeting Thursday that he has been told by colleagues at the White House that the plans will be filed sometime in December.

“Once plans are submitted, that’s really when the role of this commission, and its professional staff, will begin,” said Scharf, who also is one of the Republican president’s top White House aides.

He said the review process would happen at a “normal and deliberative pace.”

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