HomeMy Public PortalAbout00052 O R D I N A N C E NO. 52
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 the SANDS MOTEL 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:
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Being a strip of land 15 feet wide situated in U. S. Survey
2625, Township 46 North, Range 6 East and described as
follows:
Beginning at the point of intersection of the Southeast line
of Long Road, 40 feet wide, being also the Northwest line of
U. S. Survey 2625, and the Southwest line of property now or
formerly of John J. Schuette and Marie Schuette his wife by
deed recorded in Book 3323, Page 640 of the St. Louis County
Records; thence along the Southeast line of Long Road (being
the Northwest line of U. S. Survey 2625) in a Southwestwardly
direction, 622.00 ft. to a point, being the place of
beginning of the centerline of aforesaid 15' wide strip of
land; thence in a Southeast direction 1,375 feet more or
less, through property now or formerly of Bernard H. Schuette
and Mary Schuette his wife as recorded in Book 446, Page 158
of the St. Louis County Records to a point in the South line
thereof, being also a point in the South line of U. S. Survey
2625, said point being 1,373.70' east of the East of
Lindbergh Boulevard, 100' wide as measured along the South
line of U. S. Survey 2625.
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
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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.
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The foregoing Ordinance was adopted February 20, 1956.