Fredericksburg renews $1 lease on playground The City of Fredericksburg City Hall building.
Fredericksburg just renewed a dollar lease for a local park.
The Fredericksburg City Council has just renewed a lease agreement with the locally-based Mayfield Civic Association to keep the parcels of land that form a public park known as the W.L. Harris Playground on Dixon Street, just south of Route 3.
Fredericksburg has leased the park since 1981 and pays the association $1 per year to lease the property. In return, the association is exempted from city real property taxes. The previous 10-year lease agreement between the city and the association ended in June 2009 but continued to operate as though the lease agreement was still in effect as it was in holdover status.