HomeMy Public PortalAbout00475 O R D I N A N C E NO. 475
AN ORDINANCE declaring the necessity for the acquisi-
tion of easements within certain existing properties 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 Eddie and Park Road and
Robyn Road, 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 properties and will constitute a menace to the 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 Metro-
politan St. Louis Sewer District to protect the public health by
relieving and alleviating there 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, easements for the use of sewers as
hereinafter set forth, together with such working space adjacent
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to the rights-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 of triangular shape across Lot 24 of
Kimberleigh Estates Plat No. 1, a subdivision of St. Louis County,
Missouri, according to the plat thereof recorded in Plat Book 83,
Page 21 of the St. Louis County Records, the boundary of which is
described as follows:
Beginning at the southeastern corner of aforesaid Lot
24; thence westwardly a distance of 58.80 feet along the south lot
line of said Lot 24 to the southwestern corner thereof; thence
northwestwardly a distance of ten (10) feet along the southwestern
line of said Lot 24 to a point; thence northeastwardly along a
straight line a distance of 74.73 feet to its point of
intersection with the eastern lot line of said Lot 24, which point
of intersection is 44.43 feet northwardly of the aforesaid
southeast corner of said lot, measured along the aforesaid eastern
lot line thereof; excepting from above described easement the
existing easement as granted by the aforesaid plat of Kimberleigh
Estates Plat No. 1 Subdivision.
An easement five (5) feet wide over the western five
(5) feet of property now or formerly of Emil Kauzmann and being a
part of Lot No. 4 of the Eddie Estate Partition, according to the
plat thereof recorded in Plat Book 5 page 22 of the St. Louis
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County Records.
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 November 23, 1960.