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HomeMy Public PortalAbout01101 O R D I N A N C E NO. 1101 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, Mo. (Subdistrict No. 167, Ballas Road Lateral) 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 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 2 domain or otherwise, easements for the use of sewers as hereinafter set forth, together with such working space adjacent to the rights-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 over the north ten (10) feet of Lot 15 of Ballas Courts, a subdivision of St. Louis County, Missouri, according to the plat thereof recorded in Plat Book 57, page 29 of the St. Louis County Records. An easement five (5) feet wide over the west five (5) feet of Lot 22 of Ballas Courts, a subdivision of St. Louis County, Missouri according to the plat thereof recorded in Plat Book 57, page 29 of the St. Louis County Records. An easement ten (10) feet wide over the western ten (10) feet of property now or formerly of Richard C. Gaal and Janet R. Gaal, his wife, which property is more particularly described as follows: A tract of land in the Southwest one-quarter of Section 22, Township 45 North, Range 5 East, St. Louis County, Missouri, and bounded as follows: Beginning at a point on the east line of Mueller Lane 20 feet wide, 525 feet south of the east-west center line of said Section 22, measured along such east line of Mueller Lane; thence eastwardly along a line parallel with the center line of Cedar Valley Lane, a private road, a distance of 270 feet to a 3 point; thence southwardly, in a line parallel with aforesaid east line of Mueller Lane, a distance of 147 feet more or less, to its intersection with the center line of said Cedar Valley Lane; thence westwardly, along the center line of aforesaid Cedar Valley Lane, a distance of 270 feet to its intersection with the east line of aforesaid Mueller Lane; thence northwardly, along the aforesaid east line of Mueller Lane, a distance of 147 feet more or less, to the point of beginning. An easement ten (10) feet wide over the western ten (10) feet of property now or formerly of James P. Mannion and Adelaide V. Mannion, his wife, and lying in the southwest one- quarter of Section 22, Township 45 North, Range 5 East, St. Louis County, Missouri, and more particularly describe as: Beginning at a point in the east line of Mueller Lane, 20 feet wide, 400 feet south of the aforesaid east-west center line of aforesaid Section 22, measured along such east line of Mueller Lane; thence eastwardly, along a line parallel with the center line of aforesaid Cedar Valley Lane, a distance of 300 feet to a point; thence northwardly along a line parallel with the aforesaid east line of Mueller Lane, to the southeast corner of property now or formerly of Louis Schollmeyer and wife; thence westwardly, along the common property line of said Mannion and Schollmeyer, to its intersection with the east line of aforesaid Mueller Lane; thence southwardly, along said east line of Mueller Lane to the point of beginning. Section Two. Counsel for The Metropolitan St. Louis 4 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 December 19, 1963.