Then you get stories like this. In fairness, the city would have sold it to whoever for the money, in this case it was a data center.
Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for data center development — $10 gift became $10M for city government, with $30M tax expected over next decade https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-i...ith-usd30m-tax-expected-over-next-decade
