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PROPOSED LICENSE REQUEST
Request: Requesting authorization for the Forest Preserves of Cook County (the "Forest Preserves"), as Licensor to grant a License to the Village of Crestwood ("Crestwood"), Grantee, to locate, operate and maintain a trunk storm sewer and drainage basin in Rubio Woods near the southwest corner of 135th Street and Central Avenue as part of a larger flood control project with the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District. The proposed stormwater infrastructure will replace an existing earthen berm of unknown origins that was placed on Forest Preserves land decades ago south of 135th Street behind the residential homes along South End Lane.
The trunk storm sewer and adjacent basin would occupy a license area of approximately 11,202 square feet (0.26 acres).
Term: Ten (10) Years
License Fee: $23,144.63
License Application Fee: $500.00
License Review Fee: $3,000.00
YELAR Fee: $6,750.00
Total one-time upfront fee of $33,394.63 for the term of the License
(Sec. 5-2A-4 and 5-2B-4)
Tree Mitigation Fee: N/A
Additional Benefits: As conditions of this license, Crestwood has also agreed to:
(1) improve approximately 100,721 square feet (2.31 acres) of adjacent Forest Preserves land by removing an existing berm and restoring this land within 12 months after the trunk sewer is completed;
(2) pay associated construction access permit fees in 2022 for berm removal and associated tree removal, estimated at $31,887.08 for a 60-day construction period, and estimated at $96,029.74 for removal of 21 trees;
(3) pay construction access permit fees in 2021, estimated at $7,224.31 for a 60-day period for staging of construction equipment and some berm removal on an estimated 21,273 square feet (0.49 acres) adjacent to the trunk sewer;
(4) mow previously-mowed portions of Forest Preserves land on a specified parcel south of the proposed trunk sewer on an annual basis until it is under active restoration management by the Forest Preserves...
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