Metro Parks has approved a policy spelling out how and when it will grant easements affecting parks after controversy over an apartment project.
The Metro Parks board of commissioners has adopted a policy on how and when it will approve easements or sell property as more developers approach the district asking for utility, road, or other types of access through park land.
"Metro Parks is not in the business of divesting itself of land holdings and this shall only occur in the most extreme of situations," the policy states. Tim Moloney, Metro Parks' executive director, said that now when developers ask about easements,"we can just send them the policy."The board adopted the policy last month in the wake of some controversy that occurredallowing North Carolina-based Zimmer Development to build a 750-unit apartment complex adjacent to Scioto Audubon Metro Park.
At the meeting, Moloney said that those easements were for the public good, and that a transfer can't be for something that's not consistent with the public purpose for acquiring the land, which in that case would have been for a private driveway. Alex said the Metro Parks' new policy provides clear-cut guidelines requiring that any requests to the Metro Parks for easements or sale of land must provide"clear and convincing proof" of meeting certain criteria. That includes:
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