Fairburn buys county park

The City of Fairburn is paying $2.1 million to buy Clarence E. Duncan Memorial Park from Fulton County.

The growing city encircled the county park in the mid-1990s and has been leasing the park since 2003. Last May, the city said it wanted to buy the park, but it is paying fair-market value unlike the new cities of Sandy Springs, Johns Creek, Milton and Chattahoochee Hills, which paid $100 an acre for county parks within their borders.

Fairburn being an old city didn't qualify for that price.

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