Committee on Housing & Real Estate Chicago City Council Meeting July 24,2019
ORDER
WHEREAS, The City of Chicago is a home rule unit of government under Section 6(a), Article VII of the 1970 Constitution of the State of Illinois and as such may legislate as to matters which pertain to its local government and affairs; and,
WHEREAS, It is the duty and responsibility of the City Council of Chicago, the municipal government's legislative body, to create laws and maintain oversight on all matters pertaining to the administering of city business; and,
WHEREAS, It is incumbent upon the Members of the City Council of Chicago, collectively and locally, to protect and preserve the all assets within their collective jurisdiction; now, therefore,
WHEREAS, The greater Englewood community is comprised of both the Englewood and West Englewood neighborhoods bound by Garfield Boulevard to the north, Dan Ryan Expressway to the east, Western Avenue to the west, and 75th Street to the south; and,
WHEREAS, The Englewood community has 2,462 city-owned properties across six wards with the 3rd Ward having forty-two city-owned parcels of land, the 17th Ward having 222 city-owned parcels, the 15th Ward having 332 city-owned parcels of land, the 6th Ward having 384 city-owned parcels of land, the 20th Ward having 406 city-owned parcels of land, and the 16th Ward having 1076 city-owned parcels of land; and,
WHEREAS, The Department of Planning and Development has offered local opportunities for purchasing these lots such as Adjacent Neighbors Land Acquisition Program (ANLAP), Negotiated Sales and Sealed Bids as well as the Large Lot (formerly $1 Lot Program); and,
WHEREAS, Mayor Lori Lightfoot signed Executive Order No. 2019-2 with the stated purpose "to direct departments to cease each and every such practice" of having authority over select issues in their ward while allowing "the critical ability and responsibility of aldermen in their official representative capacity to provide me...
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