HomeMy Public PortalAbout00033 O R D I N A N C E NO. 33
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 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 to be known as HOLLIDAY INNS upon which
commercial buildings are being constructed; and
WHEREAS, sewage 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 sewers as
hereinafter set forth:
An easement fifteen feet wide, extending from the western to
the eastern boundary of the property now or formerly of Olive
M. Gutweiler, situated in United States Survey 2524,
according to the records in the Office of the Recorder of
Deeds, St. Louis County, Missouri, the centerline of which
begins at a point in the north boundary of the property of
said Olive M. Gutweiler, a distance of 29.47 feet west of the
southeast corner of United States Survey 2625; thence
eastwardly in a straight line at an angle of 14o 44-2/3' to
the right of said north boundary to a point in the east
property line of aforesaid property.
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 sewers
being necessary in order to protect the public health within 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 October 31, 1955.