Credit: The Smithsonian Institution has a proposal before the National Capital Planning Commission Thursday for supplemental perimeter fencing, to close gaps in existing fencing and reduce the number of pedestrian entrances from 13 to three — at Connecticut Avenue, the bus lot drop-off, and the Lower Zoo.

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