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Cook County board expands Rosebush Hill service district to include 11 properties
Summary
After a public hearing, the Cook County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to expand the Rosebush Hill Subordinate Governmental Service District to add 11 properties, a change residents said resolves long-standing access and easement conflicts and clarifies mapping for emergency response.
The Cook County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to expand the Rosebush Hill Subordinate Governmental Service District to include 11 additional properties following a public hearing and a resolution introduced by Commissioner Sullivan.
Brady, a county staff member who opened the hearing, summarized the request as an enlargement of the district to add 11 parcels while leaving the existing road section serviced unchanged. "By summary, the current property owners in Rosebush Hill subordinate governmental service district would like to expand the district to include an additional 11 properties," Brady said during the hearing.
Rick Han, the liaison for the Rosebush Hill Service District, told commissioners the change is intended to clarify long-running easement and access disputes. Han described a history of conflicting easement agreements and said property owners have worked together and contributed to legal costs to create an amended easement that aligns access rights with how the area would have been platted. He said staff mapping changes will separate Coyote Road from Rosebush Hill Road and will rename the upper section (for mapping) so emergency responders have clearer addresses.
"We took more of the approach of if this was now a plan development, how would these roads have been allocated essentially to the property owners," Han said, describing the effort to resolve title and access issues that had delayed at least one property sale.
Commissioner Sullivan moved to expand the district by resolution; another commissioner supported the motion. A roll-call vote recorded Commissioners Sullivan, Gamble and Storley as voting in favor and the motion passed unanimously.
The expansion amends the territory that benefits from county maintenance and services on the named road sections. County staff said the mapping updates will require sequencing new fire-stop numbers for the upper properties to aid emergency response. The board closed the public hearing after the vote.
What happens next: staff will finalize mapping and convey the amended easement documentation to property owners and the county's mapping and emergency services offices. The resolution directs county staff to proceed with the administrative steps needed to effect the territorial expansion.
