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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
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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
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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
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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 December 19, 1963.