HomeMy Public PortalAbout03735 O R D I N A N C E NO. 3735
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 per-
mitting 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.
WHEREAS, there exists within The Metropolitan St.
Louis Sewer District an area of St. Louis County, Missouri, known
as the Tidewater Place Sanitary Outfall Sewer of The Metropolitan
St. Louis Sewer District wherein there live and work numerous
people; and
WHEREAS, sanitary sewage and stormwater drainage
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
and welfare by constructing sanitary and stormwater 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
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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 sewer lines 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, fifteen (15) feet wide, being
part of a tract of land in the western twenty (20) acres of the
southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 18, Township
45 North, Range 5 east and part of Lot 2 of the Subdivision in
Partition of Samuel Hibler's Estate in the northeast fractional
quarter of Section 19, Township 45 North, Range 5 East, St. Louis
County, Missouri, and being more particularly described as
follows:
The point of beginning of the centerline of said fifteen (15) foot
wide strip being in the western line of property conveyed to
Edna D. Altvater by deed recorded in Book 3293, Page 319 of
the St. Louis County Recorder's Office, said point of
beginning being distant north 0 degrees 04' west a distance
of 7.50 feet from the southwestern corner of said Altvater
property; thence eastwardly along a line being 7.50 feet
northwardly of and parallel to the southern line of said
Altvater property, a distance of 368.00 feet to a point;
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thence southeastwardly a distance of 84 feet, more or less,
to a point in the eastern line of property conveyed to Edna
D. Altvater and Nancy B. Altvater by deed recorded in Book
5541, Page 120 of the St. Louis County Recorder's office,
said point being the point of ending of the herein described
centerline of the fifteen (15) foot wide strip of land, said
point being distant south 0 degrees 25' west a distance of
37.00 feet of the northeastern corner of said Edna D. and
Nancy Altvater property.
Temporary easements during original construction of
sewer facilities, after which all rights of condemnor shall cease,
which temporary easements are described as strips of land twenty
(20) feet in width on each side of, and immediately adjacent to,
the herein above described fifteen (15) foot wide permanent ease-
ment.
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Section Two. Counsel for The Metropolitan St. Louis
Sewer District be and is hereby authorized to acquire by purchase
if possible, or 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 hereinabove
set out.
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The foregoing Ordinance was adopted March 14, 1979. -3-