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PROPOSED ORDINANCE
AUTHORIZING THE ACQUISITION OF LAND VIA DONATION FROM THE COOK COUNTY LAND BANK AUTHORITY AND CREATING A FOREST PRESERVE ON THE ACQUIRED LAND NEAR CERMAK WOODS
AN ORDINANCE CREATING A FOREST PRESERVE in parts of Section 36, Township 39, Range 12 East of the Third Principal Meridian, all in Cook County, Illinois.
WHEREAS, the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, Illinois believes passage of this ordinance is necessary to ensure compliance with the Local Government Property Transfer Act, 50 ILCS 605/0.01 et seq., which provides statutory authority for one municipality to convey title to real estate to another municipality when the territory of transferor municipality is at least partly within the corporate limits of the transferee municipality and it is necessary or convenient to use, occupy or improve real estate held by the transferor municipality in the making of any public improvement or for any public purpose; and
WHEREAS, the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, Illinois recently reached an agreement with the Cook County Land Bank Authority to acquire certain parcels of land, via donation, located in unincorporated Cook County known as Riverside Lawn and adjacent to Forest Preserve District holdings, consisting of approximately 5.84 acres ("Property") as described in Exhibit A attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference, which Property was previously acquired by the Cook County Land Bank Authority to convert the Property to open space due to repetitive flood damage pursuant to an Intergovernmental Agreement with the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Forest Preserve Commissioners of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, Illinois, pursuant to the statutes in such case made and provided, has from time to time acquired by purchase, condemnation, gift, grant, or devise, lands necessary and desirable for Forest Preserve purposes containing one or more natural forests or parts ther...
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