Myersville is slated to combine two parcels of forest conservation land in Bullivant Park into one, according to Brandon Boldyga, the town’s planning and zoning administrator.
The town bought a parcel of about 60 acres in 2023 from the Tree-Land Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that owns and maintains forest conservation property in Myersville, according to Bob Martin, the organization’s executive director.
Myersville used Program Open Space funds — money from a state program that helps local jurisdictions plan, acquire and develop open space or undeveloped land — from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources to acquire the 60-acre park land, Boldyga said in a phone interview Monday.
The state grant funding reimbursed the town for the parcel’s entire $190,000 cost last year, Boldyga wrote in an email Monday.
The town previously bought a portion of the parcel in 2016 and had owned another adjacent park land parcel since the 1980s, he said.
Boldyga said consolidating the parcels will make one land record for all 97 acres that the town owns in Bullivant Park.
“You’ll have several land records and parcels for a single park, and it gets confusing, especially in projects,” he said. “You’re not sure which parcel to put on there, which tax map, which deed. It’s always best to tie all those together with a single land record.”
The Myersville Planning Commission on Tuesday will evaluate if the requirements for the plat, such as topography, are present, according to Boldyga.
Since the land is in forest conservation, the town cannot develop the property or clear trees to build buildings or complexes, he said.
“There really isn’t anything we can develop on the site,” Boldyga said in a phone interview on Monday. “However, it’d be great if we can make it publicly available for folks to traverse to that area and see nature in its natural state.”
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