Advice on convincing park committee to sell land. Need your advice!
I need all the advice I can get to try to convince my local park committee to sell a part of their land to me. Here is the situation. There is a 10 acre piece of land that the park committee owns. It is not being used at all. There are just trees there. There are 3 different pieces of land that surround the property. A big chunk of it is my property.  The second part is lower end houses. The third part is a business park (that wouldn’t have any feasibility to expand to that area). 
The land is also on a rougher terrain so you would have to remove quite a bit of a large hill to make all of it usable. 

The best use for the land is probably housing and that would be my long term plan. 
I don’t think the park needs the land since they have 2 large parks for a smaller town. 
How should I approach trying to convince the park to sell the land? My plan was to show up to the next meeting and try to get to know 2 of the main people on the board and just mention what I am trying to do. Then I would get on the agenda for the next meeting and make my case. 
My case would include:
-the land isn’t very useful to the park. 
-has a rough terrain so a big investment would need to be made to make it all usable. 
-if we were to convert it to housing, that would mean more taxes. 

What other ideas do you have? Any and all advice is much appreciated! What is your experience with talking with board members? Any specific approach I should take? Anything else I should take into consideration?
Thanks!
[{"id": "i3kvush", "text": "While it certainly would mean more tax revenue, the park isn\u2019t in the business of raising tax revenue. They\u2019re in the business of, among other things, providing \u201copen space\u201d to the public. Most larger park districts actually have a budget and a plan commission for acquiring idle land to preserve. Maybe see if you can find them some \u201clike kind\u201d land they can purchase with the proceeds from the sale.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "i3l3o70", "text": "I'd bet a dollar that the park makes you more money on the land you already own than if they just gave it to you to develop. You should be leveraging that park for premium development of your adjacent property.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "i3m6xz8", "text": "Dealing with public entities can be a nightmare.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "i3p49kp", "text": "You try that around here and community members will be protesting in front of your home the next morning.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]