HomeMy Public PortalAbout01532 O R D I N A N C E NO. 1532
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 exist within The Metropolitan St. Louis
Sewer District an area in St. Louis County, Missouri, near Rock
Hill Road and General Grant Lane, known as Subdistrict No. 273
(Watson and Rock Hill) 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 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, an easement 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 easement:
An easement five (5) feet wide over the southern 187.80 feet
of the western five (5) feet of property now or formerly of
Donald Mahacek, which property is more particularly described
as:
Part of Lot 8 of GRANTWOOD, a subdivision in Township 44
North, Range 6 East, St. Louis County, Missouri, being North
part of East 1.397 acres of a tract of 11.397 acres conveyed
to Conrad Tappeiner by deed in Book 522 page 607 of the St.
Louis County records. Beginning at the Northeast corner of
said 1.397 acre tract; thence South along East line of said
tract 310 feet, more or less, to Northeast corner of said
property conveyed to Wm. F. Bobring and wife by deed recorded
in Book 1242 page 506; thence West along the North line of
said Bobring's property 94.73 feet, more or less, to West
line of said 1.397 acre tract; thence North along West line
of said tract 310 feet, more or less, to Northwest corner of
said 1.397 acre tract; thence East along the North line of
said tract, 94.73 feet to the beginning.
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
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property as hereinbefore set out. The foregoing Ordinance was adopted September 14, 1966.
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