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Home My Public Portal About01639 O R D I N A N C E NO. 1639 AN ORDINANCE, authorizing the Executive Director and the Secretary-Treasurer of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District to purchase from the owner thereof certain real property in Township 47 North, Range 7 East, St. Louis County, Missouri, to be used for permanent open-space and floodway reservation area adjacent to its Coldwater Creek Treatment Plant, and prescribing terms. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT: Section One. The Executive Director and the Secretary- Treasurer of the District are authorized to purchase from the owner thereof, the following real property in Township 47 North, Range 7 East, in St. Louis County, Missouri, to be used for permanent open-space and floodway reservation area adjacent to its Coldwater Creek Treatment Plant, at a price not to exceed Ninety- Nine Thousand Nine Hundred Forty Dollars and no cents ($99,940.00), said property to be free of all encumbrances, other than those contained in the opinion agreement to purchase said property, a copy of which is attached hereto and made a part hereof, said property described as follows: A tract of land situated partly in the southeast one- fourth of Fractional Section 18, and partly in U. S. Survey 210, both in Township 47 North, Range 7 East, St. Louis County, Missouri; approximately 3,000 feet east of Old Halls Ferry Road, and adjacent to the south side of the Coldwater Creek; consisting 2 of approximately 32 acres of undeveloped land in its natural state, that is, uneven topography containing several trees of Walnut, White Ash, Hard Maple, Sycamore and Black Oak, of heights up to 50 feet and of diameters up to 4 feet, all of which enhance the overall natural beauty of said land, which land is to be held and used for permanent open-space land for passive type recreation and preservation of the natural state of the tract, (legal description attached hereto). TRACT OF LAND TO BE ACQUIRED FROM JOHN F. HOENE AND AGNES HOENE, HIS WIFE IN TOWNSHIP 47N, RANGE 7E, ST. LOUIS COUNTY, MISSOURI A tract of land situated partly in the southeast 1/4 of Fractional Section 18, and partly in U. S. Survey 210, both in Township 47 North, Range 7 East, St. Louis County, Missouri, and together described as: Beginning at the southwest corner of the 40.10 acre tract of land conveyed to John F. Hoene and wife by deed recorded in Book 2080, page 51, St. Louis County Recorder's office, being at the southwest corner of the southeast fractional 1/4 of said Section 18; thence along the south line of said Hoene Tract, being along the south line of said Section 18, south 89Ε 17' East, 928.80'; thence North 27Ε 39' East, 226.25'; thence North 06Ε 13-1/2' West, 332. 22'; thence North 75Ε 44-1/2' East, 274.99'; thence North 81Ε 44-3/4' East, 560.03'; thence North 76Ε 45' East, 314.98'; thence North 67Ε 22' East, 610.47' to an intersection with the east line of said Fractional Section 18; 3 thence along said east line of Fractional Section 18, North 00Ε 43' East, 220', more or less, to its intersection with the centerline of the Coldwater Creek (formerly Drainage District No. 2A) Right-of-Way, 100' wide; thence southwestwardly and westwardly along said right-of-way centerline, being on a curve with a curve with a radius of 1,909.86' to the right, 1,355', more or less, to the southeast corner of a tract of land conveyed to The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District by deed recorded in Book 5184, page 607, said Recorder's office; thence westwardly along the southern line of said Sewer District property the following courses and distances (which are unrelated to the foregoing courses shown herein): North 89Ε 27' West, 86.86'; North 35Ε 35' West, 43.34'; North 35Ε 45' West, 97.68'; North 73Ε 12' West, 108.82'; South 73Ε 03' West, 68.90'; South 17Ε 26' West, 89.04'; South 15Ε 31' West, 36.08'; and North 88Ε 31' West, 823.36' to the southwest corner of said Sewer District property; thence westwardly along the centerline of said Coldwater Creek Right-of- Way, 234', more or less, to its intersection with the west line of the southeast 1/4 of said Fractional Section 18; thence southwardly along said west line of the southeast 1/4 of Fractional Section 18, 817', more or less, to the beginning. Section Two. Upon the execution and delivery to them by the said owner of a general warranty deed in proper form conveying free from liens and encumbrances, other than those contained in the option agreement to purchase said property, a copy of which is attached hereto and made a part hereof, fee 4 simple title to said land to The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, the Executive Director and the Secretary-Treasurer shall be and are hereby authorized and directed to pay to the said owner, for said land, the sum of Ninety-Nine Thousand Nine Hundred Forty Dollars and no cents ($99,940.00). Section Three. The Executive Director and the Secretary-Treasurer are further authorized to execute on behalf of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District all instruments necessary to carry out the terns contained in the option agreement for the purchase of this property, a copy of which is attached hereto and made a part hereof. Said option agreement having been approved by the Department of Housing and Urban Development of the United States Government. Section Four. It is recognized that the contract for a federal grant will impose certain obligations and responsibilities upon The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District. Therefore, the Executive Director and the Secretary-Treasurer are further authorized to execute on behalf of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District all instruments necessary to qualify for a grant under Title VII of the Housing Act of 1961, as amended. 5 The foregoing Ordinance was adopted July 12, 1967.