HomeMy Public PortalAbout01497 O R D I N A N C E NO. 1497
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.
WHEREAS, there exists within The Metropolitan St. Louis
Sewer District an area in St. Louis County, Missouri, near the St.
Charles Rock Road and Lindbergh Boulevard, known as Subdistrict
No. 194 (Kenneth and Elrath) of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer
District, 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
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 five (5) feet wide over the southwestern five (5)
feet of Lot 6, and an easement five (5) feet wide over the
northeastern five (5) feet of Lots 1 and 2, all of Block B of
Wellston Heights, a subdivision of St. Louis County, Mo.,
according to the plat thereof recorded in Plat Book 16 page 6
of the St. Louis County Records.
An easement of varying width across property now or formerly
of Henry E. Hengen and Grace L. Hengen, his wife, which
property is more particularly described as follows:
The east 100 feet of a 4.00 acre tract in U.S. Survey 406,
Township 46 North, Range 5 East St. Louis County, Missouri,
conveyed to George S. Kist and John L. Kist, in Book 491 page
593 and described as follows: Beginning at the Southeast
corner of said 4.00 acre tract; thence North 52 degrees 39
minutes West along the North line of St. Charles Rock Road
100 feet to a point; thence North 36 degrees 59 minutes East
to the South line of Right of Way of the St. Louis, St.
Charles and Western Electric Railroad (now abandoned); thence
South 36 degrees 18 minutes East along said South line to the
East line of said 4.00 acre tract; thence South 36 degrees 59
minutes West along said East line 353.83 feet to the
beginning.
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The said easement is more particularly described as
follows:
Beginning at the southern corner of said property, which
corner is also the intersection of the northeastern line of
St. Charles Rock Road and the northwestern line of Illinois
Avenue (40 feet wide); thence northwestwardly, along the
southwest line of said property, a distance of 100 feet to
the west corner of such property; thence northeastwardly,
along the northwest line of such property, a distance of ten
(10) feet to a point; thence southeastwardly, along a line
parallel with and ten (10) feet northeastwardly from, the
aforesaid southwest line of said property, a distance of 75
feet to a point; thence southeastwardly, in a straight line,
to its intersection with the southeastern line of such
property, at a point thereon 15 feet northeast of the
southern corner of said property, measured along said
southeastern line; thence southwestwardly, along said
southeastern line, to the point of beginning.
An easement of varying width over the northwestern portion of
Lots 10 and 11 in Block D of Wellston Heights, a subdivision
of St. Louis County, Missouri, according to the plat thereof
recorded in Plat Book 16 page 6 of the St. Louis County
Records, the said easement being more particularly described
as follows:
Beginning at the northern corner of aforesaid Lot 11; thence
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aforesaid Lots 11 and 10 to the western corner of said Lot 10;
thence southeastwardly, along the southwest line of said Lot
10, a distance of 20.77 feet to a point; thence northwardly,
in a straight line, across said Lots 10 and 11, to a point in
the northeastern line of Lot 11, which point is five (5) feet
southeast of the northern corner of said Lot 11, measured
along the said northeast lot line thereof; thence
northwestwardly, along said northeast lot line, to the point
of beginning.
An easement ten (10) feet wide over the western ten (10) feet
of Lot 6, Block D of Wellston Heights, a subdivision of St.
Louis County, Missouri, according to the plat thereof
recorded in Plat Book 16 page 6 of the St. Louis County
Records, excepting therefrom that part conveyed to the State
of Missouri by deed recorded in Book 1205 page 54 of the St.
Louis County records.
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. The foregoing Ordinance was adopted May 24, 1966.
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