[mr_00ff00]

This is well thought out and a good point, it does feel like though there should be some “special case” for donating land to keep for public use as a park.

You are right though, how long can someone who doesn’t own that land, have authority on how it is used.

[lazyasciiart]

In Seattle the city is not allowed to take away park land without replacing it with the same area of new park land. No need to special case “if it was given by a citizen to be a park” - just make it park land at the time, and it’s permanent enough.

[db48x]

If you want a park, then build a park. Don’t give away the land and hope someone else builds a park.

[unholiness]

The Trustees of Reservations, in the Boston area, are a great example of this working well.

[db48x]

Yea, I suppose if you gave the land to an organization dedicated to building parks then you could reasonably expect to get a park out of it. Of course, they might decide to build a garage to house and maintain their fleet of mowing and gardening equipment instead.