DEDICATION / OPENING / VACATION ORDINANCE
WHEREAS, the City of Chicago ("City") is a home rule unit of local government pursuant to Article VII, Section 6 (a) of the 1970 constitution of the State of Illinois and, as such, may exercise any power and perform any function pertaining to its government and affairs; and
WHEREAS, the City can enhance public access, support industrial development, strengthen established industrial areas and expand the city's jobs base by encouraging the growth and modernization of existing industrial facilities through opening new rights of way, accepting the dedication of new rights of way, and vacating existing rights of way forreduced compensation; and
WHEREAS, many industrial firms adjoin streets and alleys that are no longer required for public use and might more productively be used for plant expansion and modernization, employee parking, improved security, truck loading areas or other industrial uses; and
WHEREAS, the properties at 11601-11659 S. Burley Avenue, 11705-11759 S. Burley Avenue, and 11801-12159 S. Burley Avenue, are owned by NP Avenue 0, LLC, a Missouri limited liability company (the "Developer"); and
WHEREAS, the Developer proposes to use the small portion of the alley to be vacated herein for inclusion in the overall Avenue O Industrial Park development; and
WHEREAS, improved conductivity of the remaining public street grid, and an extended and widened S. Burley Avenue, through the dedication and opening of new right of way, can also serve said industrial park development; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Chicago, after due investigation and consideration, has determined that the nature and extent of public use and the public interest to be subserved is such as to warrant the acceptance of a private dedication of new public way, the opening of a portion of City owned lots as new public way and the vacation of a portion of a public alley, all as described in this ordinance; now, therefor...
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