HomeMy Public PortalAbout00287 O R D I N A N C E NO. 287
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 which is a portion of the Dellwood Creek
Watershed, 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
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, together with such working space adjacent
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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 ten (10) feet wide across land in St.
Louis County, Missouri now or formerly of Joe Campise and
Catherine Campise, his wife, which is a parcel of land in the
North 1/2 of Section 6, Township 46 North, Range 7 East, and
described as: Beginning at a point in the North line of Crown
Point Drive, 40 feet wide, said point being distant South 89
degrees 26 minutes 30 seconds East, 1320 feet from point of
intersection of the North line of Crown Point Drive, with the
center line of Imperial Drive, thence along the North line of
Crown Point Drive, South 89 degrees 26 minutes 30 seconds East
434.08 feet to the West line of Capitol Hill, a Subdivision;
thence along the West line of said Subdivision, North 16 degrees
48 minutes 10 seconds West 355.36 feet to a point; thence South 75
degrees 34 minutes 40 seconds West 370 feet to a point; thence
South in a straight line to point of beginning, the center line of
which easement is described as follows:
Beginning at a point in the southern boundary of such
property, which point is 5.10 feet west of the southeast corner of
such property, measured along said southern boundary, thence
northwesterly in a straight line to a point in the northern
boundary of such property, which point is 74.98 feet west of the
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northeast corner of such property, measured along the said
northern boundary.
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 June 11, 1959.