Originally Posted by Skinny
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
Local governments don't care a thing about deed stipulations when they are the beneficiary of the land. I know this personally due to some land that was donated to Walker county, with a stipulation, by one of my ancestors.

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