{"id":11533,"date":"2025-06-06T12:30:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T16:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11533"},"modified":"2025-06-06T12:31:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T16:31:31","slug":"unimproved-land-may-be-a-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11533","title":{"rendered":"Unimproved Land May Be a &#8220;Park&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Orphans&#8217; Court erred in concluding that it was no longer &#8220;practicable&#8221; to use property that was donated to the township as a park and for recreational purposes because a park can be land kept in its natural state, and so the proposed sale of a portion of unimproved land in a flood zone was not allowed by the Pennsylvania Donated or Dedicated Property Act, 53 P.S. \u00a7 3384.  <em>In re: Blythedale Park<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Commonwealth\/out\/332CD20_6-5-25.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">332 C.D. 2020<\/a> (Pa. Cmwlth. 6\/5\/2025) (opinion not reported). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orphans&#8217; Court erred in concluding that it was no longer &#8220;practicable&#8221; to use property that was donated to the township as a park and for recreational purposes because a park can be land kept in its natural state, and &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11533\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[330],"class_list":["post-11533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-charitable-gifts","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11534,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11533\/revisions\/11534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}