HomeMy Public PortalAbout00241 O R D I N A N C E NO. 241
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 in the vicinity of Union Road and
Will Avenue, in which there work and live numerous people; and
WHEREAS, sanitary 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 Metropoli-
tan 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,
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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, together with such working space adjacent
to the right-of-way as obtained as may be required for working
room during the construction period, and the right of ingress and
egress over the premises sought to be condemned for the access to
such easements:
An easement fifteen (15) feet wide across part of Lot
No. 14, Carondelet Commons South of River des Peres, Township 44
North, Range 6 East, St. Louis County, Missouri, the center line
of which is described as follows:
Beginning at a point on the east line of Will Avenue 40
feet wide, a distance of 419.0 feet south of the south line of
Union Road; thence eastwardly at an angle of 90 degrees 53 minutes
to the right, a distance of 605 feet, more or less, to the center
line of Gravois Creek.
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 22, 1958.