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by cge 4100 days ago
Moving the bodies themselves seems to be an issue, and I expect there would be awkwardness about allowing farming where there had been a cemetery for perceived health reasons, but there have certainly been cases of repurposing cemeteries. Pioneer Park in San Diego, while having a scan few recent articles about how it was probably a bad idea, didn't seem to cause a huge controversy: the city took an old cemetery in disrepair, took out most of the markers, put up a little memorial in the corner, and turned the rest into parkland. The primary school right next to it, at least when I went there, even used it occasionally for classes, though I expect that has stopped for perceived security reasons.