Office of the City Clerk - Record #: O2015-7315

• Record #: O2015-7315
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• Intro date: 9/24/2015
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Housing and Real Estate
• Final action: 11/18/2015
• Title: Access easement agreement with RKS LLC for alley ingress and egress at 3005 W Franklin Blvd
• Sponsors: Emanuel, Rahm
• Topic: AGREEMENTS - Easement

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
11/18/2015	13818	City Council	Passed	Pass
11/9/2015		Committee on Housing and Real Estate	Recommended to Pass	Pass
9/24/2015	4700	City Council	Referred

OFFICE OF THE MAYOR
CITY OF CHICAGO
RAHM EMANUEL
MAYOR
September 24, 2015









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


Ladies and Gentlemen:

At the request of the Commissioner of Planning and Development, I transmit herewith an ordinance authorizing the execution of an access easement agreement for RKS, LLC.

Your favorable consideration of this ordinance will be appreciated.

Mayor


Very truly yours,

ORDINANCE


WHEREAS, the City of Chicago (the "City") is a home rule unit of government by virtue of the provisions ofthe Constitution ofthe State of Illinois of 1970, and as such, may exercise any power and perform any function pertaining to its government and affairs; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to an ordinance passed by the City Council of the City (the "City Council") on June 26, 2013, and published in the Journal of the Proceedings of the City Council for such date at pages 56409 through 56420 (the "June 2013 Ordinance"), the City Council authorized the City's conveyance ofthe property identified in Exhibit A attached hereto ("Phase I Site") to NeighborSpace, an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, for use as an urban farm; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to the City's quitclaim deed dated September 29, 2014, and recorded with the Office ofthe Recorder of Deeds of Cook County, Illinois, on October 2, 2014, as document number 1427529090, the City conveyed the Phase I Site to NeighborSpace; and

WHEREAS, the June 2013 Ordinance also authorized the City's conveyance to NeighborSpace of the property identified in Exhibit B attached hereto ("Phase II Site") for the expansion ofthe urban farm, such conveyance to occur following the City's completion of certain environmental and site preparation work for the Phase II Site and subject to an ingress/egress easement, to be approved by separate ordinance, in. on, over and across a portion of the Phase II Site (such portion, legally described in Exhibit C attached hereto, the "Sub-Phase II Site") in favor of t...