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HomeMy Public PortalAbout00781 O R D I N A N C E NO. 781 AN ORDINANCE declaring the necessity for the acquisition of easements 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 Lindbergh-Union Trunk Subdistrict of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District 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, easements for the use of sewers as 2 hereinafter 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 easements: An easement ten (10) feet wide across property now or formerly of Norman Guth, Edwin Guth, Vera Wohlschlaeger, Edward P. Guth and Hilda C Guth, his wife, which property is described as follows: A tract of land being a part of fractional sections 26 and 27, Township 44 North, Range 6 East, a part of U. S. Survey 2995, all of Lot 67 of James S. Thomas' Addition in U. S. Survey 2994, a plat of which Addition is recorded in Plat Book 1 Volume 1 Page 46 of the records of the City (former County) of St. Louis, Missouri, and also a strip 12 feet wide adjoining said Lot 67 on the Northeast as shown on the plat of said James S. Thomas' Addition, all in St Louis County, Missouri, and more particularly described as follows, to wit: Beginning at a stone in the center line of Green Parke Road, which is also the Northeast line of said Survey 2994, where it is intersected by the Northwest line of said Lot 67 projected; and running thence South 32 degrees 15 minutes West 5.91 chains to a stone thence South 58 degrees 20 minutes East 11.63 chains to a stone, thence North 49 degrees 40 minutes East 6.39 chains to a stump, thence North 52 degrees 15 minutes East 3.73 chains to a stone; thence East 9.08 chains to a stone, 3 thence North 3 degrees West 1.50 chains to a stone; thence North 77 degrees East 730 feet, more or less, to the Southwest corner of tract conveyed to Theofiel Coonwels by deed recorded in Book 1265 page 458 of the St. Louis County records; thence North 19 degrees 33 minutes West along the West line of tract so conveyed to Theofiel Coonwels aforesaid, 722 feet, more or less, to the center line of Green Parke Road, thence along said center line South 69 degrees 12 minutes West 502.72 feet; South 68 degrees 53 minutes West 320.24 feet; South 52-1/4 degrees West 14.75 chains to a stone in the Northeast line of U S, Survey 2994 and thence North 58 degrees 20 minutes West 8.15 chains to the place of beginning. EXCEPTING from said Lot 67 a strip of land 100 feet wide for railroad Right of Way conveyed to St. Louis Memphis & Southeastern Railroad Company by deed recorded in Book 134 page 342 of the St. Louis County records, ALSO EXCEPTING THEREFROM that part conveyed to the State of Missouri by deed recorded in Book 4357 page 205 of the St. Louis County records. The centerline of aforesaid ten (10) foot wide easement is described as follows: Beginning at the point of intersection of a northwest- southeast boundary line between aforesaid Guth property and property of the State of Missouri known as the Right-of-Way of Highway I-55, and of a line parallel with and five (5) feet southeastwardly from a northeast-southwest boundary of said Guth property and Highway Right-of-Way, which point of intersection is 4 394.81 feet southwestwardly measured along said parallel line, from the west boundary of property of Troy D. Stotler and wife according to instrument recorded in Book 3298 page 113 of the St. Louis County Records; thence southwestwardly, along a continuation of said parallel line, a distance of 20.58 feet to a point; thence southwestwardly at an angle to the right of 14 degrees 03 minutes 45 seconds a distance of 525.92 feet to its intersection with another northwest-southeast common boundary line between property of Guth and Highway Right -of -Way. 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. 5 The foregoing Ordinance was adopted June 25, 1962.