Article Archives >> Lead Stories >> January 1-15, 2010

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Court Refuses to Permit
Lease of Parkland to Hospital
City may not change use of land
willed for use as public park “forever”

An appellate court in Pennsylvania has refused to grant the City of Philadelphia the right to lease 19 acres of a public park that had been willed to the City as parkland “forever” to the adjacent Fox Chance Cancer Center.  The Court said that the City had not shown that the park use was no longer “practicable or possible and has ceased to serve the public interest.”  (Estate of Ryerss, Pa. Commonwealth Ct., No. 2446 C.D. 2008, 12/16/09.)

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