HomeMy Public PortalAbout01141 O R D I N A N C E NO. 1141
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.
50, Reavis and Vira) 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
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:
Easements on strips of land 10' wide over, across,
through and under a tract of land in Lots 3 and 4 of the John
Sappington Estate in fractional Section 8, Township 44 North,
Range 6 East, St. Louis County, Mo., and described as follows:
1.A strip of land 10' wide and approximately 470' long,
the centerline of which strip is described as
beginning in the north line of said factional
Section 8, distant westwardly along said north
line 542.33' from its intersection with the
southwestern line of Rock Hill Road, 40' wide;
thence southwestwardly in a straight line 470' +
to a point in the north line of "Webster Downs
Addition", a subdivision in St. Louis County, Mo.,
according to the plat thereof recorded in Plat
Book 54, page 39 of the St. Louis County
Recorder's Office, distant 58.63' eastwardly along
said north line of "Webster Downs Addition" from
the northwest corner of Lot 39 of said
subdivision, the point of ending.
2.A strip of land 10' wide and approximately 185' long,
and described as bounded on the north by the north
line of said fractional Section 8; on the west by
the eastern line of the 10' wide easement -2-
firstly described herein, in "1.", above; on the south
by a line parallel with and 10' southwardly from,
measured at right angles to, said north line of
fractional Section 8; and on the east by a line
perpendicular to said north line of fractional
Section 8 through a point therein distant along
said north line 352.33' westwardly from its
intersection with the southwestern line of Rock
Hill Road, 40' wide.
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. The foregoing Ordinance was adopted April 2, 1964.
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