HomeMy Public PortalAbout01385 O R D I N A N C E NO. 1385
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. 227, Gravois-Sappington Trunk) in which there live and work
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 Metro-
politan 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
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 following described property: Property now or formerly of Fred Lehmkuhl and Marie Lehmkuhl, his wife, in part of the NW 1/4 of Section 20, Township 44 North, Range 6 East, St. Louis County, Missouri, and more particularly described as beginning at a point on the southeast boundary of Gravois Road (80 feet wide), which point is 293.09 feet, more or less, southwest of the point of intersection of the centerline of Emil Avenue (40 feet wide) and the said southeast line of Gravois Road, measured along said southeast line of Gravois Road, which point of beginning is also the intersection of the northeast corner of said Lehmkuhl property and the northwestern corner of Lot 2 of the Resubdivision of Lot 1 of Sappington Heights, a subdivision of St. Louis County, Missouri, according to the plat thereof recorded in Plat Book 14 page 64 of the St. Louis County Records; thence southwestwardly along the said southeast line of Gravois Road a distance of 334 feet more or less to the northwest corner of said Lehmkuhl property; thence South 0 degrees 50 minutes West 669.80, more or less, feet to the southwest corner of said Lehmkuhl property; thence South 89 degrees 17 minutes East 292 feet, more or less, to the southeast corner of said Lehmkuhl property; thence North 0 degrees 50 minutes East to the south line of Gravois Road, which is the point of beginning. The centerline of the aforesaid ten (10) foot wide easement is described as follows: Beginning at the point of intersection with the eastern boundary of aforesaid Lehmkuhl property and a line which begins at a point which is 5 feet east of the said east boundary of Lehmkuhl, measured perpendicular thereto and 260 feet north of the eastwardly prolongation of the aforesaid south line of Lehmkuhl, measured perpendicularly thereto, and which centerline of easement proceeds thence westwardly in a straight line across such Lehmkuhl property through its point of intersection with the west boundary of such Lehmkuhl property and continuing westwardly, in a straight line, to a point 80 feet west of and perpendicular to such western boundary of Lehmkuhl and 290 feet north of and perpendicular to the westward prolongation of the south boundary of Lehmkuhl.
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 August 26, 1965.