HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTIONS-1997-017-R-97• 17-R-97
A RESOLUTION
Authorizing Acceptance of an Easement from
Metropolitan Water Reclamation District for a
Foot Bridge Across the North Shore Channel
WHEREAS, the City of Evanston has a longstanding lease with the
Metropolitan Water Reclamation District ("District') concerning certain property
of the District along the North Shore Channel ("Channel"); and
WHEREAS, said lease has afforded the City the opportunity to sublease a
portion of the property to the Evanston Wilmette Golf Course Association for the
purpose of the Association developing and administering the Peter N. Jans Golf
• Course; and
WHEREAS, Resolution 37-R-94 extended the lease between the City and
the District to May 31, 2032; and
WHEREAS, the City extended its lease with the Evanston Wilmette Golf
Course Association to May 31, 2032, authorizing continued operation of the Peter N.
Jans Golf Course; and
WHEREAS, the foot bridge golfers use to cross the Channel between holes
16 and 17 on the Evanston side of the Golf Course is in need of replacement; and
WHEREAS, the new bridge will be designed to allow for use by motorized
golf carts, thereby facilitating the crossing of disabled persons; and
• WHEREAS, the District has approved the grant of a thirty-five year
easement to expire on May 31, 2032, to the City to provide for the bridge; and
WHEREAS, the consideration for the easement grant is $1,500.00 (fifteen •
hundred dollars); and
WHEREAS, the Evanston Wilmette Golf Course Association has agreed to
pay said consideration to the District; and
WHEREAS, acceptance of the easement is in the best interests of the City,
NOW, Therefore, Be it Resolved by the City Council of the City of Evanston,
Cook County, Illinois:
SECTION 1: That the foregoing recitals are incorporated herein.
SECTION 2: That the City hereby accepts the afore described grant of
easement for the installation, operation, maintenance, repair and removal of a 12-
foot wide foot bridge extending appropriately 160 feet across the North Shore
Channel, between two abatement and staging areas, each approximately 25 feet •
wide and 50 feet long, upon, under, across and through District land, extending
from the top of the bank down the slope thereof, all centered on a line
approximately 270 feet northeasterly of and parallel to the east right-of-way line
of Green Bay Road in Evanston, Illinois, described in Exhibit A attached hereto
and made a part hereof. The City Manager is authorized to execute, and the City
Clerk to attest, any and all documents necessary to effect such acceptance. The
City Manager is further authorized to negotiate any additional terms and
conditions he deems necessary.
SECTION 3: That said acceptance is on terms consistent with the
City's sublease with the Evanston Wilmette Golf Course Association. 40
• SECTION 4: The City and the Evanston Wilmette Golf Course
Association will amend their sublease approximately to reflect this grant of
easement.
SECTION 5: This Resolution will be in full force and effect from and
after the date of its passage and approval in the manner provided by law.
• ATTEST:
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EASEMENT SOUTH SIDE OF NORTH SHORE CHANNEL: Exhibit
That part of Sanitary District of Chicago property in the
Southeast Quarter of Section 12, Township 41 North, Range 13,
East of the Third Principal Meridian, in Cook County, Illinois, •
described as follows: Commencing at a corner of Sanitary
District property on the North line of Noyes Street and the
West line of a 16 foot alley lying West of and adjacent to Lot
20, in Block 4 in McCormick Subdivision of 611 1/2 feet North
of and adjoining the South 708 1/2 feet East of the Chicago
and Northwestern Railway, in the Southeast Quarter of Section
12, Township 41 North, Range 13, East of the Third Principal
Meridian, in Cook County, Illinois, approximately 113.84 feet
East of the East line of right of way of the Chicago and
Northwestern Railway; thence North on the West line of said
16 foot alley, 156.0 feet to a Sanitary District Property corner
at the North line of a 16 foot alley, lying North of said Lot
2Q; thence Northwesterly on a line with an angle of 151 degrees,
19 minutes, 30 seconds measured clockwise from the West line
of said alley, a distance of 165.0 feet to the top of Bank of
the North Shore Channel and the place of beginning, of the herein
described easement; thence continuing Northwesterly on the last
described line a distance of 31.0 feet; thence Southwesterly
at right angles to last described line a distance of 50.0 feet;
thence Southeasterly at right angles to the last described line,
a distance of 26.0 feet to the top of the North shore Channel
Bank; thence Northeasterly 50.24 feet to the place of beginning.
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Exhibit A
• EASEMENT NORTH SIDE OF NORTH SHORE CHANNEL:
That part of Sanitary District of Chicago Property in the
Southeast Quarter of Section 12, Township 41 North, Range 13,
East of the Third Principal Meridian, in Cook County, Illinois,
described as follows: Commencing at a corner of Sanitary
District property on the South line of Colfax Street and the
center line of vacated Ashland Avenue; thence South on the center
line of said vacated Ashland Avenue, 132.05 feet to a Sanitary
District property corner; thence Southeasterly on a line with
an angle of 153 degrees, 05 minutes measured clockwise from
North to Southeast from the center line of vacated Ashland
Avenue, a distance of 224.0 ft. to the top of the North Shore
Channel Bank and the place of beginning of the herein described
easement; thence continuing Southeasterly on the last described
line a distance of 28.0 ft.; thence Southwesterly with an angle
of 99 degrees, measured from North to West counter clockwise
from the last described line, a distance of 50.0 feet; thence
Northwesterly with an angle of 81 degrees measured from East
to North counter clockwise from last described line a distance
of 28.0 feet, to the top of the North Shore Channel Bank; thence
Northeasterly 50.0 feet to the place of beginning.
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