HomeMy Public PortalAbout00691 O R D I N A N C E NO.691
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 City of Frontenac, 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 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 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 here-
inafter set forth, together with such working space adjacent 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 ten (10) feet wide over Tract M of Huntleigh
Downs Amended Subdivision, a subdivision of St. Louis County,
Missouri, according to the plat thereof recorded in Plat Book 34
page 4 of the St. Louis County Records, the centerline of which is
described as follows:
Beginning at a point in the east line of said Tract M
distant South 1 degree 13 minutes West a distance of 21.9 feet
from its intersection with the south line of Clayton Road 60 feet
wide; thence South 83 degrees 41 minutes West a distance of 261.66
feet to a point; thence South 61 degrees 53 minutes West 27.36
feet to its terminus in the center line of Huntleigh Downs Road 30
feet wide, such point being South 3 degrees 13 minutes East a
distance of 68.78 feet along the center line of said Huntleigh
Downs Road from its intersection with the south line of said
Clayton Road.
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 8, 1962.