Re:A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Bu...
by selimthegrim on Monday June 08, 2026 @01:20PM
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Apparently not in South Dakota.
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Re:A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Bu...
by sandworm101 on Monday June 08, 2026 @02:23PM
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It can be done. A basic strategy would be to donate the land,but retain "air rights", retain an easment controlling all biuldings over a few feet tall. This is regularly done to protect views when selling land downhill of a house. Farms and parks would be OK, but not construction of a datacenter.
But governments have eminant domain powers. They can always force a purchase if they really want to.