HomeMy Public PortalAbout00970 O R D I N A N C E NO. 970
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 St. Louis County near Lindbergh Boulevard and
Old St. Charles Rock Road (Subdistrict No. 144, Berkeley Garden
Homesites) 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 herein-
after set forth, together with such working space adjacent to the
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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 five (5) feet in width over the southern five (5)
feet of Lot 29, Block 11 of Rock Road Terrace amended Subdivision
No. 2, a subdivision of St. Louis County, Missouri, according to
the plat thereof recorded in Plat Book 15, page 55 of the St.
Louis County Records.
An easement five (5) feet in width over the northern five (5)
feet of Lot 11, Block 16 of Rock Road Terrace Amended Subdivision,
a subdivision of St. Louis County, Missouri, according to the plat
thereof recorded in Plat Book 18, page 4 of the St. Louis County
Records.
An easement five (5) feet in width over the northern five (5)
feet of Lot 30, Block 16 of said Rock Road Terrace Amended
Subdivision.
An easement five (5) feet in width over the southern five (5)
feet of Lot 31, Block 16 of said Rock Road Terrace Amended
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
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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 May 13, 1963.
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