HomeMy Public PortalAbout00385 O R D I N A N C E NO. 385
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 Pardee Road and the
Gravois Creek, 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 Metro-
politan St. Louis Sewer District; and
WHEREAS, it is the purpose and design of The Metro-
politan 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 property now or
formerly of Jack J. Sophir and Dorothy Sophir, his wife, in Lot
3, Partition of Harrison Long Estate in U. S. Survey 9, Township
44 North, Range 6 East, St. Louis County, Missouri, according to
the deed recorded in Book 3545, page 204 of the St. Louis County
Records, the center line of which is described as follows:
Beginning at a point on the west line of said property
of Sophir, which point is 338.96 feet south of the intersection
of the south line of Meyer Lane (40 feet wide) a private road,
with said west line of Sophir, measured along said west line;
thence along a line north 31 Degrees 17 Minutes, east a distance
of 279.25 feet to a point; thence along a line north 44 Degrees
45 Minutes east a distance of 128.96 feet to its intersection
with the south line of aforesaid Meyer Lane, said point of
intersection being also 189.50 eastwardly from the aforesaid west
line of Sophir property, measured along said south line of Meyer
Lane; thence along the northward production of said centerline
north 44 Degrees 45 Minutes east across said Meyer Lane to the
north line thereof, which is also the north line of said property
of Sophir and the aforesaid north line of Lot 3, Partition of
Harrison Long Estate.
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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 on March 31, 1960.