HomeMy Public PortalAbout02943 O R D I N A N C E NO. 2943
AN ORDINANCE declaring the necessity for the
acquisition of a parcel of land within The Metropolitan St. Louis
Sewer District, for the purpose of stormwater improvements
thereupon to serve the need of residents of the area and
authorizing the acquisition of such land 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 University City, Missouri, containing
Subdistrict No. 366 (University City Branch of River des Peres
Stormwater Subdistrict) of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer
District wherein there live and work numerous people; and
WHEREAS, storm 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 stormwater improvements 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 believe insanitary and dangerous conditions, it is necessary
to appropriate and acquire by the exercise of eminent domain or
otherwise a parcel of land for the use of stormwater improvements
as hereinafter set forth, said parcel of land being more
particularly described as follows:
A parcel of land in Block 3 of EASTOVER, a subdivision
in University City, St. Louis County, Mo., as per plat
thereof recorded in P.B. 17, Pg. 42, St. Louis County,
Mo. Recorder's office, which parcel of land is more
particularly described as being the west half of Lot 10
and all of Lots 11 and 12 in said Block 3, EXCEPTING
THEREFROM the southern 15' thereof conveyed to the
State of Missouri by Cause No. 241272 of the Circuit
Court of St. Louis County, Missouri for the widening of
Olive Blvd. and which parcel is further described as
fronting 115.35' on the north line of Olive Blvd., as
so widened, by a depth northwardly of 110' on its east
line and 111.20' on its western line, to the south line
of a 15' wide alley on which it has a width of 131.65'.
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 stormwater
improvements being necessary in order to protect the public health
within the District constitutes an emergency within the meaning of
the Plan of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District and this
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Ordinance shall take effect immediately upon its adoption. The foregoing Ordinance was adopted October 29, 1975.