HomeMy Public PortalAbout00500 O R D I N A N C E NO. 500
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 the open flow of storm water on and over such property
and construction of storm water and sanitary sewers therein to
serve the needs of residents on adjacent lands and to drain a
watershed, 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 Lawn Avenue and Urban
Drive in the City of Brentwood, in which there work and live
numerous people and which collects large amounts of storm water,
and
WHEREAS, storm water and 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 Metro-
politan St. Louis Sewer District to protect the public health and
welfare 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
welfare and to 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 open
flow of storm water and for storm water and sanitary sewers as
hereinafter set forth, together with such working space adjacent
to the right-of-way as obtained as may be required for working
room during any construction period, and the right of ingress and
egress over the premises sought to be condemned for the access to
such easements:
An easement forty-five (45) feet wide over the northern
forty-five (45) feet of property granted to Anthony Cavagnaro and
Frank J. Frick by instrument recorded in Book 751, page 174 of the
St. Louis County Records, which property is also a portion of
Block 6 of Forest Hills Park, a subdivision of St. Louis County,
Missouri, according to the plat thereof recorded in Plat Book 19,
page 36 of the St. Louis 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 January 5, 1961.