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Concerning Scattered Sites for
Housing Authority of Cook County
• Low Rent Family Housing Construction
WHEREAS, the City of Evanston did enter into a cooperation agree-
ment with the Housing Authority of Cook County (hereinafter referred to as
HACC) to provide low -rent scattered site housing for families in the City
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of. Evanston; and _
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WHEREAS, the HACC did submit an application for preliminary loans
to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (hereinafter HUD) to
provide federal funds for surveys and planning in respect to low -rent housing
and HUD did provide preliminary site approval to develop 15 units of low- i
rent housing for families in Evanston; and
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WHEREAS, the City of Evanston has conducted numerous hearings to
determine suitable sites with specific consideration given to the impact on
the immediate neighborhood, distance to schools, public facilities, park
facilities, public transportation and the general surrounding area; and
WHEREAS, the following described group Site "A" is considered to
represent a suitable and desirable configuration of locations meeting the
necessary criteria for scattered sites for the construction by HACC of 15
units of low-rise housing for families including townhouse and duplex housing
units; and
WHEREAS, the HACC is required to prepare a development program to
include preliminary site design, planning and cost estimating in order to
establish the total funds needed for the program; and
WHEREAS, the HACC proposes to prepare and'submit, with the con-
currence of the City Council of the City of Evanston, the development program
for the approval of the Housing Assistance office of HUD; and
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WHEREAS, the City desires hereby to express more formally its in-
tention in order that HACC may take appropriate steps by way of preparation
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• of a development program for the required review, approval and appropriation
by HUD of the estimated development costs;
i NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
EVANSTON, COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS: j
That Site "A" being a combination of separate scattered sites
located within the City of Evanston, County of Cook and State of Illinois,
and including the following locations, as legally described in "Exhibit A"
attached hereto, is hereby tentatively approved as a site of construction by
HACC of 15 units of low-rise housing for families including townhouses and
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duplex housing units:
SITE A
ADDRESS NO. OF UNITS
1825-27 Simpson 3
1512-14 Fowler 2
1119 Dewey 2
1200-08 Hartrey 4
2520-26 Gross Point Rd. 4
TOTAL 15
That said Site "A" is tentatively approved subject to the prepara-
tion by HACC of a Development Program to include preliminary site design
planning and cost estimating in order to establish the total funds required
for the program, which program may be rejected by the City Council solely
because of objections to housing quality;
That the City of Evanston or its duly authorized agencies, boards,
commissions or departments, shall take the reasonably necessary and appropriate`
action in the implementation of this resolution, upon the development of an
appropriate plan for these sites, including the granting of zoning variations
or special uses for the locations tentatively approved, where proper and
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appropriate, within the limitations of the Evanston Housing and Zoning .Codes,
��. if and as required, and the waiver of the usual building permit fees.
That certified copies of this resolution shall be submitted for
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approval of HACC
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`! ATTEST:
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j City Clerk
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Adopted
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, 1981
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EXHIBIT "A"
LEGAL DESCRIPTION
1825-27 Simpson
Lot 3 and Lot 4 (excluding the West 27 feet) in Shipley's Resubdivision
of Lots 9, 10, and 11 and the East 2 of the vacated street.West and
adjoining said lots in Block 9 of Payne's Addition Evanston a subdivision
of the South West 4 of the South East 4 of Section 12, Township 41, Range
13 East of the Third Principle Meridian, in Cook County, Illinois.
1512-14 Fowler
Lot 9 of Block 4 in Fowler and Carney's addition to Evanston a subdivision
of the North West 4 of the South West 4 of Section 13, Township 41 North,
Range 13 East of the Third Principle Meridian in Cook County, Illinois.
Rec., December 13, 1872, Doc. #72208..
1119 Dewey
Lot 9 (except North 66 feet thereof) and the South 33 feet of the North 66
feet of Lot 9 in Block 7 in Chase and Pitner's addition to Evanston a
subdivision of the North West 4 of the North East 4 of Section 24, Township
41, Range 13 East of the Third Principle Meridian and the South 2 of the
South West 4 of the South East 4 of Section 13, Township 41, Range 13 East
of the Third Principle Meridian (except North 712 feet thereof) in Cook
County, Illinois. Recorded November 21, 1871, Book 1, Page 6, Doc. #3555.
1200-08 Hartrey
Lots 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24 in Rutt's Resubdivision of Block 1 in Pitners
and Sons' Third Addition to Evanston, a subdivision of the North I -lest 4
of the NW 4 in Section 24, Township 41, Range 13 East of the Third Principle
Meridian in Cook County, Illinois. Recorded December 21, 1891, Book 57,
Page 41, Doc. #1586688.
2520-26 Gross Point Rd.
Lots 4, 5, 6 of Landeck's Division of Lot 2 in Evert and Schaefer's Sub-
division of part of the North East Fractional 1/4 of the Fractional Section
10, Township 41, Range 13 East of the Third Principal Meridian. Recorded
January 2, 1916, Book 148, Page 34, Doc. #6021993.
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