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Resolution to vacate all of Crescent Place, an unimproved right-of-way located between Rena Avenue and Circle Avenue, Antioch, Illinois, in the Golf View Manor, Unit 3 Lakes Center Subdivision, Antioch Township.
Staff Summary
• Cheryl and Kevin Arion, Mary Johnson and Marcelina Kempf, record owners, are requesting the vacation of all of Crescent Place, an unimproved right-of-way 40 feet wide and extending approximately 398 feet between Rena Avenue and Circle Avenue, and lying northerly and adjacent 40035 North Rena Avenue, 25461, 25451, & 25441 W. Crescent Place, and 40042 North Circle Avenue. The area to be vacated consists of approximately 0.37 acres.
• The right-of-way has not been improved nor accepted by the Antioch Township Highway Commissioner. The Highway Commissioner has no objection to the proposed vacation of the right-of-way, nor has any objection been received from public utilities or neighboring property owners regarding the vacation request.
• The Board of Vacations held a public hearing on March 21, 2019 and recommended by unanimous vote to grant the vacation.
• Following a recommendation by the Public Works, Planning and Transportation Committee, the vacation request will proceed to the County Board for final action.
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RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, on March 21, 2019, a public hearing was held before the Board of Vacations pursuant to Section 151.204 of the Lake County Unified Development Ordinance, as amended, on the petition of Cheryl and Kevin Arion, Mary Johnson, and Marcelina Kempf, record owners, to vacate all of Crescent Place, an unimproved right-of-way 40 feet wide extending approximately 398 feet between Rena Avenue and Circle Avenue, and lying northerly and adjacent 40035 North Rena Avenue, 25461, 25451, & 25441 W. Crescent Place, and 40042 North Circle Avenue. Requested action more fully described as follows:
Vacation of all that part of Crescent Place beginning at the northwest corner of Lot 102 in Golf View Manor, Unit 3, Lakes Center Subdivision, a subdivision of the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of Section 25, and part of the northeast quarter of Section 24, Township 46 North, Range 9 East of the Third Principal Meridian, according to the Plat thereof recorded April 25, 1928, as document 316674 in Book “S” of Plats, pages 74, 75, and 76 in Lake County, Illinois. Thence north to the southwest corner of Lot 101 in said subdivision, for a distance of 40.00 feet; thence east along the southerly lines of Lots 100 through 95 in said subdivision, for a distance of 398.7 feet to the southeast corner of Lot 95 in said subdivision; thence southerly to the northeast corner of Lot 108 in said subdivision, for a distance of 40.00 feet; Thence west along the north lines of Lots 108 through 102 in said subdivision, for a distance of 397.2 feet to the point of beginning, all in Lake County, Illinois.
WHEREAS, the petitioners are the owners of the following parcels of real estate, to-wit: Lots 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108 in Golf View Manor, Unit 3, in Lakes Center Subdivision, a subdivision of the northwest ¼ of the northeast ¼ of Section 25 and part of the southwest ¼ of the southeast ¼ of Section 24, Township 46 North, Range 9, east of the Third Principal Meridian, according to the plat thereof recorded April 25, 1928 as Document 316674 in Book “S” of Plats, pages 74 to 76 in Lake County, Illinois, aka PIN(s): 0124416018; 0124416004; 0124416005; 0124416006; 0124416013; 0124415016; 0124415015; 0124415012; 0124415011; 0124415010; 0124415009; 0124415008; 0124415007, and which are located adjacent to unimproved Crescent Avenue, an unimproved right-of-way; and
WHEREAS, after reviewing the testimony presented at the aforementioned public hearing of the Board of Vacations, said Board has submitted its recommendation and report to the Public Works, Planning and Transportation; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Vacations recommends approval of the vacation request based on the following findings:
1) Antioch Township has no objection to the request. 2) First Fire Protection District of Antioch has no objection to the request. 3) No objections were received from other agencies who were noticed. 4)The vacation would not hinder pedestrian or vehicular traffic in the neighborhood. 5) The vacation would place the property in private ownership and on the tax rolls.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Lake County Board that the public right-of-way, as described above, is hereby vacated and that portion of said plats of subdivision are hereby revoked, annulled, and set aside; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this resolution shall take effect and be in force for and after its passage provided that said petitioner shall after the passage of this resolution, file for recording in the office of the County Recorder of Deeds, a certified copy of this resolution, the application, and the Deed of Vacation.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on this 14th day of May 2019.