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Ordinance amending the establishing ordinance for Special Service Area Number 17 (SSA #17) of the County of Lake, Illinois.
Staff Summary
* In September 2016, the Lake County Board approved the establishment of SSA #17 for the Ivanhoe Club Phase III subdivision (also known as Ivanhoe Estates).
* The residents of Ivanhoe Estates petitioned the County to establish an SSA to provide a financing mechanism for private road repair, reconstruction, and/or maintenance within its boundaries.
* In July 2017, owners of 26 townhome properties in Ivanhoe Estates received property tax assessments for tax year 2017 and discovered that they had two new parcel identification numbers (PINs) associated with their respective lots.
* In reviewing the legal description within the Establishing Ordinance, staff learned the shared villa driveway easements that service the townhomes had been "excepted" from the boundaries of the SSA.
* By "excepting" these driveway easements, this effectively removed the easements from the SSA boundaries, thereby creating separate tax codes for: (1) the property that the townhome sits on; and (2) the property that extends into the driveway easement.
* Staff recommends deleting Exceptions four through seven of the legal description within the Establishing Ordinance to place the driveway easements back within the SSA #17 boundaries. This will allow owners to consolidate their PINs so that they will receive one property tax assessment and property tax bill beginning in tax year 2018. Staff have been coordinating with the affected property owners to ensure their PIN consolidation forms contain the correct information and are properly submitted to the Chief County Assessment Office.
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ORDINANCE NUMBER 17-0886
WHEREAS, on September 13, 2016, and in accordance with 35 ILCS 200/27-5, the Lake County Board approved Ordinance Number 16-0813 establishing Special Service Area Number 17 (SSA #17); and
WHEREAS, SSA #17 was established at the requ...
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