{"id":4770,"date":"2017-06-21T17:02:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T21:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4770"},"modified":"2017-06-21T17:07:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T21:07:16","slug":"orphans-court-approval-needed-for-sale-of-park-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4770","title":{"rendered":"Orphans&#8217; Court Approval Needed for Sale of Park Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Property purchased by township through the Project 70 Land Acquisition and Borrowing Act, 72 P.S. \u00a7\u00a7 3946.1 et seq., and dedicated to public use as a park, cannot be sold by the township to private developers, and the township cannot grant easements to private developers, without approval of the Orphans&#8217; Court in accordance with the Donated or Dedicated Property Act, 53 P.S. \u00a7\u00a7 3381-3386, even after the deed restrictions imposed on the property in accordance with the Project 70 act had been removed by the legislature. \u00a0<em>In Re: Petition of Borough of Downingtown<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Supreme\/out\/J-125A-2016mo%20-%2010314262419628395.pdf\">12 MAP 2016<\/a> (Pa. 6\/20\/2017).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Property purchased by township through the Project 70 Land Acquisition and Borrowing Act, 72 P.S. \u00a7\u00a7 3946.1 et seq., and dedicated to public use as a park, cannot be sold by the township to private developers, and the township cannot &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4770\">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":[602,601],"class_list":["post-4770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-dedicated-property","tag-public-use","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770","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=4770"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4773,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770\/revisions\/4773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}