HomeMy Public PortalAbout03995 O R D I N A N C E NO. 3995
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.
WHEREAS, there exists within The Metropolitan St. Louis
Sewer District an area of St. Louis County, Missouri, known as the
Grimsley Station Bluffs 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 ten (10) feet wide, being part of
a tract of land in Lot 17 of Clifton Heights, a subdivision in St.
Louis County, Missouri, as recorded in Plat Book 1, Pages 16 and
17 of the St. Louis County Records, the centerline being described
as:
Beginning at a point in the centerline of Cliff Cave Road (30 foot
wide), being in the West line of Lot 17 distant North 36
degrees 00 minutes West, 2.98 feet from the Southeast corner
of Lot 18 and the Northeast corner of Lot 19 of said Clifton
Heights; thence leaving said centerline continue North 47
degrees 15 minutes East, 93.68 feet to a point; and North 67
degrees 27 minutes 04 seconds East, 411.96 feet to a point in
the right of way of Grimsley Station Road (60 foot wide),
said point being distant South 67 degrees 27 minutes 04
seconds West, 43.54 feet from an angle point in the
centerline of Grimsley Station Road being also an angle point
in the North line of Lot 17 of the aforementioned Clifton
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Heights.
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 hereinabove described ten (10) foot wide permanent easement.
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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.
The foregoing Ordinance was adopted April 9, 1980.
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