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HomeMy Public PortalAbout00115REPEALED BY ORDINANCE NO. 7644 - 12/28/88 O R D I N A N C E NO. 115 AN ORDINANCE to establish building or floodway reser- vation lines along a stream or watercourse as hereinafter des- cribed, and to provide for control of the use of the area within those lines under the meaning of the Plan of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District. WHEREAS, the Maline Creek is a natural stream within The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, and WHEREAS, the Board of Trustees has, in its judgment, decided that the public health and convenience and the adequate sewerage and drainage of the District require the establishment of building or floodway reservation lines along said Maline Creek; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT: Section One. The public health and convenience and the adequate sewerage and drainage of the District require the establishment of building and floodway reservation lines along the Maline Creek, a natural stream within The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District. Section Two. Such building and floodway reservation lines as hereinafter described are and shall be the limits of floodway reservations and no building or part of a building or appurtenance thereof or any structure shall be set up or erected within the reservation so established and, except by permission of 2 the Board, no fill shall be made which may diminish the area of flow or otherwise obstruct in any way the free flow of flood waters in such reservation, nor without such permission shall any dams, walls, or other watertight or practically watertight structures be constructed or placed within such reservation, and the Board shall fix by ordinance the method and manner of granting such permission. Section Three. The District shall have the power to do the following enumerated things without, however, being limited to such things, within the building and floodway reservation lines as hereinafter described: (a) to control, as hereinafter provided, the use of private lands within such lines; (b) to establish along and adjacent to any watercourse or stream, natural or artificial, or any part thereof, running in or through or bordering on the District, bank lines or normal flow lines, grades, slopes, and cross sections and to take, occupy, and appropriate the bed of any such stream or part of a stream and any or all of the banks adjacent to such stream, and to straighten, deepen, move, lower, or otherwise alter such stream or part of a stream or the banks thereof; (c) to remove any or all walls, dams, or flumes or other obstructions to the free and healthy flow of water at any time of year, either under normal conditions or during times of flood; 3 (d) to raise, lower, or otherwise alter any such existing structures; (e) to build and maintain other walls, dams, flumes, canals, artificial channels, revetments, slope or channel paving, or protection works, or other stream control works; (f) to cover any such stream or cause it to flow through a sewer or other aqueduct built in and upon the bed of such stream or adjacent thereto, or at some other location; (g) to divert any stream or part of a stream from its natural or present channel into a new or different channel and to fill in, if it deems advisable, the old channel or any part thereof; (h) to do and perform any and all other acts necessary, beneficial, or expedient to carry into effect the above and foregoing purposes and powers. Section Four. The authorized agents of the Board shall have the right to enter upon the land inclosed by such building and floodway reservation lines and to clean, police, and otherwise maintain the channel and banks of the stream or watercourse, so that the natural and healthful flow of the stream may be maintained at all times. Section Five. The boundary of the following described area is and shall be the building and floodway reservation lines along a portion of the Maline Creek located within the limits of the City of St. Louis and designated as Section "A" thereof; 4 Beginning at the intersection of the east line of Lot "A" of Belle Crest, a subdivision of St. Louis County, Missouri, as recorded in Plat Book 41, Page 18 of the St. Louis County records, with the St Louis City Limits Line of 1876 and being 4.47 feet north of the southeast corner of said Lot "A", measured along said east line of Lot "A"; thence southwestwardly along said City Limits Line to its intersection with the South line of said Lot "A"; thence eastwardly along the south line of parcel acquired by the City of St. Louis by Ordinance No. 39701, recorded in Book 5196 Page 556 of the City of St. Louis records, to the most westerly corner of parcel acquired by the City of St. Louis by Ordinance No. 39010, recorded in Book 5164 Page 4; thence southeastwardly along the southwesterly line of parcel acquired by Ordinance No. 39010 to its intersection with north line of Jennings Station Road 80 feet wide, which is also known as Chain of Rocks Drive; thence continuing southeastwardly along the southwesterly line of parcel acquired by the City of St. Louis by Vacation of Jennings Station Road by Ordinance No. 30700 to its most southerly corner; thence continuing southeastwardly along the southwesterly line of parcel acquired by the City of St. Louis by Ordinance No. 39010, recorded in Book 5164 Page 4, to its most southerly corner being a point in the northwesterly right-of-way line of Riverview Drive 100 feet wide; thence southeastwardly along a line crossing Riverview Drive 100 feet wide and Waterworks Conduit right-of-way 120 feet wide to the intersection of the 5 southeasterly boundary of said Waterworks Conduit with the most westerly corner of parcel acquired by the City of St. Louis by Ordinance No. 38915, recorded in Book 5158 Page 462; thence southeastwardly along a line further identified as line "A" a distance of 685.45 feet, more or less, to a stone in the south line of Lot 2, St. Cyr Partition, said stone being 942.81 feet easterly measured along said south line of Lot 2 from the easterly line of said Waterworks Conduit right-of-way; thence eastwardly along the said southerly line of Lot 2, St. Cyr Partition 1500 feet, more or less, to the mean low water mark of the Mississippi River; thence northwardly and upstream along the meanders of the mean low water line of the Mississippi River to a point which is 225 feet northerly measured at right angles from the aforesaid south line or its eastward extension of Lot 2, St. Cyr Partition; thence westwardly along a line parallel with and 225 feet north from said south line of Lot 2, measured at right angles, a distance of 1500 feet, more or less, to a point of intersection with a line 200 feet northeastwardly from and parallel with previously identified line "A" measured at right angles thereto; thence northwestwardly along a line parallel with and 200 feet northeasterly from said line "A", measured at right angles thereto, to a point of intersection on the north line of a dedicated road 500 feet wide as dedicated by the City of St. Louis by Dedication No. 1027 recorded in Book 27, Page 16, of the City of St. Louis Records; thence westwardly along the northerly line 6 of said dedicated road to its intersection with the aforesaid southeasterly boundary of Waterworks Conduit Right-of-Way 120 feet wide; thence northwestwardly along a line across said dedicated road 50 feet wide to the point of intersection of its western boundary with the southeasterly boundary of Riverview Drive 100 feet wide; thence northwestwardly along a line across Riverview Drive 100 feet wide to a point on the northwesterly line of Riverview Drive 100 feet wide and being the most easterly corner of parcel acquired by the City of St. Louis by vacation of Jennings Station Road by Ordinance No. 30700; thence north- westwardly along the northeasterly boundary lines of City of St. Louis property as established by said Ordinances No. 30700, No. 39010 and No. 39701 to a point on aforesaid City Limits Line as established in 1876, said point being northeast along said line 60 feet from City Limits Stone No. 137; thence southwestwardly along said City Limits Line to the point of beginning. 7 The foregoing Ordinance was adopted February 11, 1957.