My wife’s parents have a 200 acre farm in another township from us and they’ve decided to offer us a 1.5 acre lot so they can be closer to their grandchildren. The lot hasn’t been severed yet, it’s in the works, but been a massive headache dealing with the township. My Father in law has already severed 2 separately deeded lots on the back of his farm, but they really don’t want to give us one of those as those lots are worth substantially more and it’s basically part of their retirement, so they’re working on severing a lot at the front of the farm which is basically beside their existing house.

So in dealing with the township lately, they want my in-laws to forfeit 10’ of road frontage all across the front of the farm which basically equals about 2 acres worth of land. He’s not happy about that but willing to do it. They already had to forfeit 10’ across the back of the farm, which they’ve been paying taxes on for years. No reimbursement, and they still have to maintain the ditch.

Now, the township wants them to donate a park in town for kids which is likely between $100k-$200k to build in order for the lot to go through.

My wife’s friends are in the next township over from my wife’s parents, and are in a similar situation where those parents want to sever a lot for their kid, (my wife’s friend) but that township wants them to donate 12 acres of their land to the township, and that there’s no guarantee it will go through.

Quite the corruption from townships if you ask me.

Has anyone here ever dealt with something similar and know if they’re are ways around this besides throwing money at lawyers?

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