HomeMy Public PortalAbout02174 O R D I N A N C E NO. 2174
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 of the area and authorizing the acquisition of such
easements by purchase or by the institution of condemnation
proceedings, with an emergency clause.
WHEREAS, there exists within The Metropolitan St. Louis
Sewer District an area of St. Louis County, Missouri, known as
Subdistrict No. 362 (Lindbergh-East Concord) of The Metropolitan
St. Louis Sewer District wherein 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 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 constructing sanitary sewers over and across said area in order
to relieve and alleviate 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 insanitary and dangerous conditions, it is necessary
to appropriate and acquire by the exercise of eminent domain or
otherwise, easements for the use of a sewer line as hereinafter
set forth, together with temporary easements adjacent to the
right-of-way as obtained for working room during the construction
period, and the right of ingress and egress over the premises
sought to be condemned for access to such easements, said
permanent and temporary easements being more particularly
described as follows:
A permanent easement ten (10) feet wide across property now or
formerly of Kenneth Edward Echterhoff and Joan Echterhoff,
his wife, which easement is more particularly described as
follows:
A strip of land ten (10) feet wide, being the northern ten (10)
feet of Lot 19 of Concord Square, a subdivision of St. Louis
County, Missouri, according to the plat thereof recorded in
Plat Book 77, Page 50 of the St. Louis County records.
Temporary easement during original construction of sewer
facilities, after which all rights of the condemnor shall
cease, which temporary easement is described as a strip of
land ten (10) feet in width South of, immediately adjacent
to, the hereinabove described ten (10) feet wide permanent
easement; the northern line of which ten (10) feet wide
temporary easement is coincident with the southern line of
said ten (10) feet wide permanent easement; the western line
of which ten (10) feet wide temporary easement is coincident
with the eastern line of Revere Lane; the eastern line of
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which ten (10) feet wide temporary easement is twenty (20)
feet East of and parallel to the eastern line of Revere Lane.
A permanent easement ten (10) feet wide across property now or
formerly of Marion M. Thurman and Edna Sue Thurman, his wife,
which easement is more particularly described as follows:
A strip of land ten (10) feet wide being the southern ten (10)
feet of Lot 23 of Concord Square, a subdivision of St. Louis
County, Missouri, according to the plat thereof recorded in
Plat Book 77, Page 50 of the St. Louis County records.
Temporary easement during original construction of sewer
facilities, after which all rights of the condemnor shall
cease, which temporary easement is described as a strip of
land ten (10) feet in width North of, and immediately
adjacent to the hereinabove described ten (10) feet wide
permanent easement, the southern line of which ten (10) feet
wide temporary easement is coincident with the northern line
of said ten (10) feet wide permanent easement; said ten (10)
feet wide easement being bounded easterly and westerly by the
eastern and western lines, respectively, of said Thurman
property.
A temporary easement during original construction of sewer
facilities, after which all rights of the condemnor shall
cease, across property now or formerly of Richard J. Paul and
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Betty J. Paul, his wife, which temporary easement is
described as a strip of land ten (10) feet in width; the
southern line of which ten (10) feet wide temporary easement
is coincident with the southern line of Lot 18 of Concord
Square, a Subdivision of St. Louis County, Missouri,
according to the plat thereof recorded in Plat Book 77, Page
50, of the St. Louis County records; the western line of
which ten (10) feet wide temporary easement is coincident
with the eastern line of Revere Lane; the eastern line of
which ten (10) feet wide temporary easement is twenty (20)
feet East of and parallel to the eastern line of Revere Lane.
Section Two. Counsel for The Metropolitan St. Louis
Sewer District be and is hereby authorized to acquire by purchase,
if possible, subject to approval of the Board of Trustees, or to
institute and prosecute an action in condemnation, as authorized
by law, if necessary to appropriate and acquire the aforesaid
interests in private property.
Section Three. Acquisition of said property as an
essential part of a sewage system to serve the local area named is
urgently required for protection of the public health.
Accordingly, an emergency exists within the meaning of the Plan
and this Ordinance shall therefore take effect immediately upon
its enactment.
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The foregoing Ordinance was adopted June 3, 1971.