HomeMy Public PortalAbout01542 O R D I N A N C E NO. 1542
AN ORDINANCE, establishing certain described lands as
part of the Water Pollution Control Project of the Mississippi
River Subdistrict of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District,
contemplated by Ordinance No. 775, approved June 25, 1962;
containing a legal description of the aforesaid lands forming an
integral, constituent and necessary part of said Water Pollution
Control Project, authorizing the institution of condemnation
proceedings in connection therewith, and containing an emergency
clause.
WHEREAS, the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan St.
Louis Sewer District, pursuant to proceedings duly and lawfully
had in accordance with the provisions of its Plan, by Ordinance
No. 775, adopted on the 25th day of June, 1962, did create the
Mississippi River Subdistrict of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer
District; and
WHEREAS, thereafter by Ordinance No. 845, adopted on
the 27th day of September, 1962, the Board of Trustees of The
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District did call and provide for the
holding of a special election in the said Mississippi River
Subdistrict of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District for the
purpose of submitting to the qualified electors of said
Subdistrict, the following proposition, to wit:
Proposition.
"Shall the general obligation bonds of the Mississippi
River Subdistrict of The Metropolitan St.Louis Sewer District be
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issued in the amount of Ninety Five Million Dollars
($95,000,000.00) to provide funds for the purpose of constructing
a system of sanitary interceptor sewers and sewage disposal and
treatment plant and works for said subdistrict, including all
expenses necessarily incidental thereto?" and
WHEREAS, more than two-thirds of the qualified electors
voting on the aforesaid proposition, voted in favor thereof; and
WHEREAS, by reason of the aforesaid result of said
special election, the Mississippi River Subdistrict of The
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District is now authorized and
empowered to borrow money and issue its bonds in evidence thereof,
in the sum of Ninety Five Million Dollars ($95,000,000.00) for the
purpose of constructing a system of sanitary interceptor sewers,
force mains and sewage disposal and treatment plants and works for
said subdistrict, including all expenses necessarily incidental
thereto; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary that The Metropolitan St.
Louis Sewer District acquire certain lands forming an integral,
constituent and necessary part of the Water Pollution Control
Project of the Mississippi River Subdistrict of The Metropolitan
St. Louis Sewer District;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OF THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT:
Section One. There shall be and is hereby established
as part of the Water Pollution Control Project of the Mississippi
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River Subdistrict of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District,
contemplated by Ordinance No. 775, adopted on the 25th day of
June, 1962, the following described lands located in the City of
St. Louis, State of Missouri:
A small triangular parcel of land comprised of parts of Lots
10 and 11 of Blow and Ewing's Subdivision and in Block 3254
of the City of St. Louis, Mo., and described as: Beginning
in the northwestern line of said Lot 10 distant 8.34 feet
southwestwardly along said northwestern line from the
northernmost corner of said Lot 10; thence southeastwardly
and parallel with the northeastern line of said Lot 10, a
distance of 9.06 feet; thence northwardly in a straight line
14.8 feet, more or less, to a point in the northwestern line
of said Lot 11 distant 3.43 feet northeastwardly along said
northwestern line of Lot 11 from the westernmost corner of
said Lot 11, thence southwestwardly along the northwestern
lines of Lots 11 and 10, a distance of 11.77 feet to the
beginning.
A strip of land 30 feet wide by 224.32 feet, more or less,
long fully across Lots 2 thru 9, inclusive, and the southwest
16 feet 8 inches of Lot 10 of Blow and Ewing's Subdivision,
and in Block 3254 of the City of St. Louis, Mo., the
centerline of which 30 foot wide strip of land is described
as follows: Beginning in the northwestern line of Minnesota
Avenue, 60 feet wide, 57.14 feet northeastwardly along said
street line from the southernmost corner of said Block 3254;
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thence northwardly in a straight line 224.32 feet to its
terminus in the southeastern line of the 20 foot wide alley
in said Block, distant northeastwardly along said alley line
51.09 feet from its intersection with the eastern line of the
River des Peres Drainage Works Right-of-Way, 280 feet 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 a system
of sanitary interceptor sewers, force mains and sewage disposal
and treatment plants and works for said subdistrict is necessary
in order to protect the public health and constitute 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 October 17, 1966.