HomeMy Public PortalAbout00028 O R D I N A N C E NO. 28
AN ORDINANCE declaring the necessity for the
acquisition of an easement within certain existing property within
The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, for the purpose of
permitting construction of storm and sanitary sewers therein to
serve the needs of residents on adjacent lands and authorizing the
institution of condemnation proceedings in connection therewith,
with an emergency clause:
WHEREAS, there exists within The Metropolitan St. Louis
Sewer District an area known as BERRY MEADOWS SUBDIVISION upon
which buildings are being constructed for private dwellings; and
WHEREAS, sewage and storm water gathered from such area
will have no alternative means of disposition to crossing said
property and will constitute a menace to public health and welfare
of the general public and the residents of The Metropolitan St.
Louis Sewer District; and
WHEREAS, it is the purpose and design of The
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District to protect the public health
by relieving and alleviating these conditions;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OF THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT:
Section One. In order to protect the public health and
relieve the aforesaid insanitary and dangerous conditions, it is
necessary to appropriate and acquire by the exercise of eminent
domain or otherwise, an easement for the use of storm water and
sanitary sewers as hereinafter set forth:
Beginning at the southwest corner of Lot 15, Block 4 of Shirley
Terrace, a Subdivision of St. Louis County, Missouri,
according to the plat recorded in the Office of the Recorder
of Deeds, St. Louis County, Missouri; thence proceeding in a
straight line in an easterly direction to a point on the east
line of said lot 9.29 feet north of the southeast corner of
said lot; thence north along the east line of said lot to its
intersection with the line dividing Lots 15 and 16 of
proposed BERRY MEADOWS SUBDIVISION, a proposed subdivision of
St. Louis County, which is a distance of 15.03 feet, more or
less; thence westwardly in a straight line to its
intersection with the west line of said Lot 15 of Block 4 of
Shirley Terrace at a point thereon 34.97 feet south of the
northwest corner of said Lot 15; thence southwardly along the
west boundary of said Lot 15 to the point of beginning, all
of which lies within aforesaid Lot 15, Block 4 of Shirley
Terrace Subdivision.
Section Two. Counsel for The Metropolitan St. Louis
Sewer District be and is hereby authorized to institute and
prosecute an action in condemnation pursuant to the provisions of
the Plan of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District and the laws
of the State of Missouri for the appropriation of private property
as hereinbefore set out.
Section Three. The immediate construction of sanitary
and storm water sewers being necessary in order to protect the
public health of the District constitutes an emergency within the
meaning of the Plan of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District
and this Ordinance shall take effect immediately upon its
adoption.
The foregoing Ordinance was adopted June 30, 1955.