HomeMy Public PortalAbout00967 O R D I N A N C E NO. 967
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 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 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
hereinafter set forth, together with such working space adjacent
to the right-of-way as obtained as may be required for working
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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 in width being the south ten (10)
feet of Lots 16, 17 and 18, Block 12 of West End Park, a
subdivision of St. Louis County Missouri, according to the plat
thereof recorded in Plat Book 3 page 40 of the St. Louis County
Records.
An easement ten (10) feet in width being the south ten (10)
feet of Lot 14, Block 6 of said West End Park Subdivision.
An easement ten (10) feet in width being the south ten (10)
feet of Lots 9 and 10, Block 1 of said West End Park Subdivision.
An easement ten (10) feet in width being the south ten (10)
feet of Lots 15 and 16, Block 2 of said West End Park Subdivision.
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.
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The foregoing Ordinance was adopted May 1, 1963.
The foregoing Ordinance was adopted May 1, 1963