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PROPOSED RESOLUTION
WILKINS TRUCK SALES CLASS 8 PROPERTY TAX INCENTIVE REQUEST
WHEREAS, the Cook County Bureau of Economic Development received and reviewed a Real Property Assessment Classification 8 application containing the following information:
Applicant: Wilkins Truck Sales
Address: 3280 East End Avenue, South Chicago Heights, Illinois 60411
Municipality or Unincorporated Township: Village of South Chicago Heights
Cook County District: 6
Permanent Index Number: 32-33-101-038-0000
Municipal Resolution Number: Village of South Chicago Heights Resolution No, 2020-R-8
Number of month property vacant/abandoned: 14 months vacant
Special circumstances justification requested: Yes
TEERM (TEMPORARY EMERGENCY ECONOMIC RECOVERY MODIFICATION (Vacant for more than 12 months but less than 24 months - No Purchase for Value) Justification: Yes
Proposed use of property: Industrial use - Light mechanic work, heavy truck and industrial equipment
Living Wage Ordinance Compliance Affidavit Provided: Yes
WHEREAS, the Cook County Board of Commissioners has adopted a Real Property Assessment Classification 8 that provides an applicant a reduction in the assessment level for an abandoned industrial/commercial facility; and
WHEREAS, the Cook County Classification System for Assessment defines abandoned property as buildings and other structures that, after having been vacant and unused for more than 24 continuous months, there has been no purchased for value by a purchaser and the property is in need of substantial rehabilitation; and
WHEREAS, in the instance where the property does not meet the definition of abandoned property, the municipality or the Board of Commissioners, may determine that special circumstances may exist that justify finding that the property as abandoned for purpose of the Class 8 TEERM (TEMPORARY EMERGENCY ECONOMIC RECOVERY MODIFICATION; and
WHEREAS, in the case of abandonment according to the TEERM definition, aban...
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