OFFICE OF THE MAYOR
CITY OF CHICAGO
RAHM EMANUEL
MAYOR
June 8,2011
TO THE HONORABLE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO
Ladies and Gentlemen:
At the request ofthe Commissioner of Water Management, 1 transmit herewith an ordinance authorizing a release of a 1965 sewer easement.
Your favorable consideration of this ordinance will be appreciated.
Very truly yours,
Mayor
ORDINANCE FOR RELEASE OF RESERVED EASEMENT AND NO BUILD COVENANT
WHEREAS, on May 5, 1965 the City Council of the City of Chicago ("City") passed a certain ordinance (referred to herein as the "Original Ordinance"), which such Original Ordinance was recorded on June 3, 1965 with the Office ofthe Cook County Recorder of Deeds as Document Number 19 483 862, attached hereto as Exhibit A, vacating, in part, all of the north-south 10-foot public alley running south from East Congress Parkway as widened, all in the block bounded by East Congress Parkway to the north, East Harrison Street to the south, South Wabash Avenue to the west and South Michigan Avenue to the east ("Subject Property") that was dedicated and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Cook County, Illinois June 17, 1905, Document No. 3712554: and-
WHEREAS, in Section 2 of the Original Ordinance ("Reserved Easement and No Build Covenant"), a true and correct copy of which is set forth below, the City of Chicago made a reservation of rights and no build covenant as follows:
"The City of Chicago hereby reserves all of the North-and-South Ten (10) foot public alley as herein vacated, as a right of way for an existing sewer and for the installation of any additional sewers or other municipally-owned service facilities now located or which, in the future may be located in said public alley as herein vacated, and for the maintenance, renewal and reconstruction of such facilities. It ~> is further provided that no buildings or other structures shall be erected on said right of way herein reserved or other use made of said area, which...
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