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Record #: O2022-2999   
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
Intro date: 9/21/2022 Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Housing and Real Estate
Final action: 10/26/2022
Title: Sale of City-owned property to R&D Builders LLC for construction of affordable homes under City Lots for Working Families Program
Sponsors: Lightfoot, Lori E.
Topic: AGREEMENTS - Redevelopment, - PROPERTY - Sale
Attachments: 1. O2022-2999.pdf


OFFICE OF THE MAYOR
CITY OF CHICAGO
LORI E. LIGHTFOOT
MAYOR










TO THE HONORABLE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO


Ladies and Gentlemen:

At the request of the Commissioner ofHousing. 1 transmit herewith ordinances authorizing the sale of City-owned lots for building homes under the City Lots for Working Families Program.

Your favorable consideration of these ordinances will be appreciated.


Very truly yours.

ORDINANCE

WHEREAS, the City of Chicago (the "City") is a home rule unit of government pursuant to Article VII, Section 6(a) of the Constitution of the State of Illinois of 1970, and as such may exercise any power and perform any function pertaining to its government and affairs; and

WHEREAS, the City is the owner of the vacant parcels of land identified on Exhibit A attached hereto (the "Property"); and

WHEREAS, the City, in recognition of the shortage of decent housing affordable to working families within the City, encourages the use of vacant land for the development of new owner-occupied homes; and

WHEREAS, the City, through the foreclosure of demolition liens, tax sales and other methods of acquisition, has acquired title to numerous parcels of vacant land that are suitable for the construction of new owner-occupied housing affordable to working families; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to an ordinance (the "Program Ordinance") adopted by the City Council of the City (the "City Council") on November 8, 2017, and published at pages 59287 through 59295 in the Journal ofthe Proceedings of the City Council (the "Journal") for such date, the City established a program for the sale of City-owned vacant land to developers for the construction of affordable single-family homes and two-flats (the "City Lots for Working Families Program"); and

WHEREAS, pursuant to the City Lots for Working Families Program, the Department of Housing (the "Department"), as successor to the Department of Planning and Development for administration and implementation of...

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