HomeMy Public PortalAbout00391 O R D I N A N C E NO. 391
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 Jeffersonian and Sedan
Roads, 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 easement:
An easement of varying width across a portion of Lot
118 of Carondelet Commons South of the River des Peres, Township
44 North, Range 6 East, St. Louis County, Mo., which property is
now or formerly of Melvin Albers and wife, according to the deed
recorded in Book 3423, page 264 of the St. Louis County Records,
the centerline of the fifteen (15) foot wide portion of which
easement is described as follows:
Beginning at a point on the west line of said Albers
property, which is also the east line of U. S. Survey 2993, which
point is North 9 Degrees 22 Minutes East 385.75 feet from the
common point of the southwest corner of said Albers property and
the northwest corner of a fifteen acre tract conveyed to Herman C.
Kettler and wife by deed recorded in Book 304, page 301 of the St.
Louis County Records; thence South 73 Degrees 12 Minutes East a
distance of 140.42 feet to a point; thence South 16 Degrees 48
Minutes West a distance of 127.0 feet to a point; thence South 69
Degrees 52 Minutes East a distance of 125.21 feet to a point on
the east line of said A1bers property, which point is also 232.72
feet northwardly, measured along said east line, from the
southeast corner of said Albers property.
The west line of the ten (10) foot wide portion of said
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easement over the aforesaid Albers property is described as
follows:
Beginning at a point in the west line of said Albers
property, which is also the east line of U. S. Survey 2993, which
point is North 9 Degrees 22 Minutes East 385.75 feet from the
common point of the southwest corner of said Albers property and
the northwest corner of aforesaid 15 acre tract of Herman 0.
Kettler and wife; thence northwardly, along said common line of
Albers property and U. S. Survey 2993, 290.0 feet to a point.
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 April 27, 1960.