Imagine buying a piece of land…and along with that land comes a public park that you are now the proud owner of!

Sounds pretty cool, right?

Well, I guess for some people it would, but this person isn’t feeling it and they want to get rid of the place.

Are they being a jerk?

Read their story below and see what you think.

WIBTA for demolishing a public park?

“I bought some land including a house on a corner lot across from a school.

There’s a “public” park on the property which I also inherited.

As far as I’m aware, this park has been open to the public for a couple of decades. I’m not super familiar as I’m relatively new to this town.

It’s one of three parks and obviously it’s heavily used due to the closeness of an elementary school.

My lawyer says it’s an “easement” meaning the public is free to use it out of habit/tradition yet it remains my responsibility.

I guess the prior owner maintained it with some help from the town through the mayor’s office and volunteers.

The prior owner was a developer/philanthropist who did a lot of the small town.

They’re not on board with this idea.

I don’t like this because it opens me up to liability.

I’ve asked the mayor’s office if they’d like to hire surveyors to redraw property lines and consider it public property rather than my property, for free no less, and they’ve refused.

They don’t want the liability or the cost of hiring workers and lawyers to make it happen.

And now they’re done dealing with it.

Putting up signage or fences haven’t really worked so I want to uproot it all and just make it lawn.

Before this, when I had signage up, some of the parents of students at the school started a petition to “save their park”, not knowing it’s privately owned and not part of the town’s public spaces.

Trying to reason with some of them fell on deaf ears.

Would I be the *******?”

Check out what folks had to say about this on Reddit.

 

Another individual agreed.

This reader spoke up.

Another individual weighed in.

And this Reddit user shared their thoughts.

They think this land is just too much of a liability…

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