Record #: O2023-1551   
Type: Ordinance Status: Recommended for Passage
Intro date: 4/19/2023 Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Transportation and Public Way
Final action:
Title: Approval of plat of Collection of McCormick Square Resubdivision
Sponsors: Dowell, Pat, King, Sophia D.
Topic: PROPERTY - Plats - Resubdivision
Attachments: 1. O2023-1551.pdf
SUBDIVISION ORDINANCE
Be it Ordained by the City Council of the City of Chicago:
SECTION 1. The Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Transportation, or any of her designees, is each hereby authorized and directed to approve a proposed Collection at McCormick Square Resubdivision, being a resubdivision of certain lots owned by Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, a municipal corporation and body politic of the State of Illinois, in the block approximately bounded by S. Lake Shore Drive, E. 16th Street, S. Indiana Avenue and E. 31st Street, and legally described in the attached plat (EXHIBIT A, CDOT File: 22/27-3/4-21-3962) which, for greater certainty, is hereby made a part of this ordinance.
SECTION 2. Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority acknowledges the presence of certain previously undocumented easements for existing Department of Water Management ("DWM") water and sewer facilities as now reserved for graphically on EXHIBIT A; and agrees to terms and locations for said easements as detailed in DWM correspondence dated March 17, 2023, hereto attached as EXHIBIT B. The Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority hereby reserves easements in the land herein resubdivided, for the use and benefit of the DWM for existing public mains, sewers and appurtenances and for the maintenance, renewal, and reconstruction of such facilities, with the right of ingress and egress at all times upon reasonable notice on private land, and 24 hour access on previously vacated public right of way. Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority agrees that no buildings or other structures shall be erected upon the reservation, or other use made of said area, which in the judgment of the municipal officials having control of the aforesaid public facilities would interfere with the use, maintenance, renewal, or reconstruction of said facilities. Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority agrees to maintain a minimum clearance of forty (40) feet or as identified in EXHIBIT B, ...

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