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PROPOSED ORDINANCE
AN ORDINANCE TO CREATE A FOREST PRESERVE NEAR SWEET WOODS
AN ORDINANCE CREATING A FOREST PRESERVE in part of Section 15, Township 35 North, Range 14, East of the Third Principal Meridian, all in Cook County, Illinois near Sweet Woods in District 5.
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:
20278 Cottage Grove Ave., Glenwood, Cook County, Illinois
THE NORTHWEST 1/4 OF THE NORTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION 15, TOWNSHIP 35 NORTH, RANGE 14 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN (EXCEPT THE SOUTH 66 FEET THEREOF CONVEYED TO CHICAGO DISTRICT PIPELINE COMPANY, A CORPORATION, BY DEED RECORDED AS DOCUMENT 14832873 AND EXCEPT THE NORTH 49.5 FEET OF THE SOUTH 115.5 FEET OF THE EAST 660.0 FEET THEREOF, CONVEYED TO CHICAGO DISTRICT PIPELINE COMPANY, A CORPORATION, BY DEED RECORDED ON SEPTEMBER 3, 1958 AS DOCUMENT 17306418), IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS.
PIN: 32-15-200-012-0000
SAID PARCEL CONTAINING 1,613,462 SQUARE FEET, OR 37.04 ACRES, MORE OR LESS.
TOGETHER WITH A 60.00-FOOT WIDE NON-EXCLUSIVE CONDITIONAL INGRESS AND EGRESS EASEMENT FROM JOE ORR ROAD ALONG THE EASTERN PROPERTY BOUNDARY OF PIN 32-15-200-011-0000.
SAID EASEMENT CONTAINING 67,500 SQUARE FEET, OR 1.55 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.
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