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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 2 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. 3 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.