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PROPOSED ORDINANCE
AN ORDINANCE TO CREATE A FOREST PRESERVE NEAR POPLAR CREEK LAND AND WATER RESERVE
AN ORDINANCE CREATING A FOREST PRESERVE in part of Section 15, Township 41 North, Range 9, East of the Third Principal Meridian, all in Cook County, Illinois near Poplar Creek Land and Water Reserve in District 15.
WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, Illinois (the “District”), pursuant to the statutes in such case made and provided, has from time to time acquired by purchase, condemnation, gift, grant, devise, or otherwise, lands necessary and desirable for District purposes containing one or more natural forests or parts thereof, or lands connecting such forests or parts thereof, or lands capable of being reforested for the purpose of protecting and preserving the flora, fauna, and scenic beauties within the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, Illinois, and to restore, restock, protect, and preserve the natural forests and said lands together with their flora and fauna, as nearly as may be, in their natural state and condition, for the purpose of the education, pleasure, and recreation of the public; and
WHEREAS, the said Board of Commissioners of the District also has acquired in like manner lands for the consolidation of such preserves into unit areas of a size and form convenient and desirable for public use and economical maintenance and improvement, and lands for the purpose of connecting such preserves with forested ways or links in order to increase their accessibility, use, and enjoyment, and lands for improvement by forestation, roads, and pathways, and lands for the purpose of constructing, maintaining, and operating recreational facilities; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners of the District has in a like manner acquired lands along water courses or elsewhere which, in their judgment, were required to control drainage and water conditions and necessary for the preservation of forested areas acquired or to be acquired as preserves and lands for the purpose of extension of roads and forested ways around and by such preserves and for parking space for automobiles and other facilities not requiring forested areas but incidental to the use and protection thereof; and
BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Commissioners of the District as follows:
Section 1. That a unified Forest Preserve be and the same is hereby created within the District which shall contain and connect lands now owned and lands to be acquired in substantial accordance with the plat now on file in the office of the General Superintendent of the District, which by reference is hereby made a part hereof, and for the purposes of said Forest Preserve and for the carrying out of the statutory purposes more particularly set out in the preamble of this ordinance, it is necessary and desirable for the District to own and it shall acquire property hereinafter described in Section 2 of this ordinance, for the purpose of creating a Forest Preserve and for District uses.
Section 2. That the lands referred to in Section 1 of this ordinance are more particularly described as follows:
Common Address: 253 Sutton Road, Unincorporated Hanover Township, Cook County, Illinois
PINS: 06-15-300-019-0000
THAT PART LYING NORTH OF LOT 5 IN SUBDIVISION OF THE SOUTH EAST 1/4 OF SECTION 15, TOWNSHIP 41 NORTH, RANGE 9, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT OF SECTION 15, TOWNSHIP 41 NORTH, RANGE 9, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, RECORDED AUGUST 12, 1971 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 21600790 AND LYING WITHIN THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED TRACT DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE SOUTH WEST CORNER OF SAID QUARTER SECTION; RUNNING THENCE EAST 1314 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE NORTH 743 FEET 6 INCHES TO A POINT; THENCE NORTH 2 DEGREES 37 MINUTES EAST 243 FEET TO A POINT, WHICH POINT OF THE BEGINNING OF TRACT OF LAND HEREIN DESCRIBED; RUNNING THENCE NORTH 2 DEGREES 37 MINUTES EAST 609 FEET 9 INCHES; THENCE WEST 780 FEET 6 INCHES; THENCE SOUTHWESTERLY TO A POINT, WHICH POINT IS 988 FEET WEST OF THE POINT OF BEGINNING OF THIS TRACT OF LAND; THENCE EAST 988 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING (EXCEPT THAT PART THEREOF WHICH LIES NORTH AND EAST OF A LINE DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT ON THE WEST LINE OF THE NORTH EAST 1/4 OF THE SOUTH WEST 1/4 OF SECTION 15 AFORESAID AT A POINT 1048.1 FEET SOUTH OF THE NORTH WEST CORNER WHICH SAID WEST LINE OF THE NORTH EAST 1/4 OF THE SOUTH WEST 1/4 OF SECTION 15, AFORESAID, INTERSECTS THE EASTERLY LINE OF STATE ROUTE ROAD NUMBER 59; THENCE SOUTH 673.5 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE NORTH 89 DEGREES 37.0 MINUTES EAST 659.7 FEET AND EXCEPT THAT PART THEREOF LYING WESTERLY OF THE EASTERLY LINE OF STATE ROUTE 59 AND EXCEPT THAT PART THEREOF TAKEN FOR WIDENING OF STATE ROUTE 59 BY CONDEMNATION CASE 95L50117), IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS.
SAID PARCEL CONTAINING 110,104 SQUARE FEET, OR 2.53 ACRES, MORE OR LESS.
Section 3. This ordinance is hereby made and ordained to be severable as to each parcel of land or portion thereof or right of interest in any of the same hereby authorized to be acquired, and failure to acquire any of the said parcels of land described in Section 2 hereof or right of interest in any of the same shall not impair or invalidate the authority by this ordinance granted to hold, own, or acquire any other of said parcels or any right or interest therein, it being the intention of said Board of Commissioners of the District to carry out the general plan provided in this ordinance so far as legally and financially practicable, and to negotiate for purchase, condemn, or otherwise acquire from time to time the parcel(s) of land described in Section 2 hereof and all right or interest therein.
Section 4. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval.
District 15
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