HomeMy Public PortalAboutR0181 R E S O L U T I O N NO. 181
WHEREAS, the Board has received a petition from
property owners in the area of Meadowlark Avenue in the City of
Jennings in St. Louis County, Missouri, not included in any
subdistrict for the construction of sanitary sewers to serve such
area; and
WHEREAS, investigation has shown the necessity for such
improvement by reason of the fact that said area is not now served
by sewers; and
WHEREAS, it has been estimated that the probable cost
of the installation of such sanitary sewers will be approximately
Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00), and that the most practicable
method of payment therefor is by special tax bills, or other
evidence of special benefit assessments upon the land which shall
be found to be benefitted by such improvement;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a special benefit
subdistrict to be known as Special Benefit Subdistrict No. 55 of
The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District be and the same is
hereby created for the purpose of constructing sanitary sewers in
the area of Meadowlark Avenue in the City of Jennings in St. Louis
County, Missouri, said subdistrict to be described as follows:
Beginning at the point of intersection where the north line
of the Western Wabash Railway right-of-way and the southwest
line of Huiskamp Avenue, 50' wide intersect the northwest
line of Hord Avenue, 60' wide; thence in a northwestwardly
direction along the south line of Blocks 1 and 2 of Ben Avis
Park Subdivision as recorded in Plat Book 3 on Page 34 of the
St. Louis County Records to the most southwest corner of Lot
1 Block 2 of said Ben Avis Park Subdivision; thence
northwardly along the west line of said Ben Avis Park
Subdivision to the northwest corner of Lot 1, Block 6 of said
Ben Avis Park Subdivision; thence eastwardly along the north
line of Lots 1, 2, 3 and 4 of said Block 6 to the northeast
corner of said Lot 4; thence northeastwardly in a straight
line across Gillette Avenue to the northwest corner of Lot 1
of Block 7 of said Ben Avis Park Subdivision; thence
eastwardly along the north line of said Lot 1 to the
northeast corner of said Lot 1; thence southwardly along the
east line of said Lot 1 to the southeast corner of said Lot
1; thence southwardly in a straight line across Solway
Avenue, 50' wide to the most northeastern corner of Lot 8,
Block 4 of said Ben Avis Park Subdivision; thence southwardly
along the east line of said Lot 8 to the most southeastern
corner of aforementioned Lot 8; thence eastwardly along the
north line of Lots 2, 3 and 4 of said Block 4 to the
northeast corner of said Lot 4; thence southeastwardly across
Huiskamp Avenue to a point in the east line of Huiskamp
Avenue, said point being 50' north of the southwest corner of
Lot 4 of North Woodland Subdivision as recorded in Plat Book
8 on Page 38 of the St. Louis County Records; thence in an
eastwardly direction along a line 50' north of and parallel
to the south line of said Lot 4 to a point in the east line
of said Lot 4; thence southwardly along the east line of Lots
4, 3, 2 and 1 of said North Woodland Subdivision to a point
in the north line of Glendale Avenue, 50' wide; thence
southwestwardly in a straight line across Glendale Avenue to
the northeast corner of Lot 7 of Hords Subdivision as
recorded in Plat Book 1 on Page 78 of the St. Louis County
Records; thence southwardly along the east line of Lots 7, 4
and 3 of said Hords Subdivision to its intersection with the
north line of Lot 7 of Janes Subdivision as recorded in Plat
Book 15 on Page 95 of the St. Louis County Records; thence
eastwardly along said north line of said Lot 7 to the
northeast corner of said Lot 7; thence southwardly along the
east line of Lots 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 to the southernmost
corner of said Lot 12; thence southwardly across Huiskamp
Avenue to the point of beginning.
Such sewers to be connected with a certain existing
public sewer of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that special benefit
assessments be levied against all land which shall be found to be
benefitted by the said construction in the proportion that the
area each such parcel of land bears to the entire benefitted area
exclusive of public streets, roads and alleys within the said
benefitted area; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a public hearing be held
within said Special Benefit Subdistrict No. 55 at such time and
place as the Executive Director shall determine, and that notice
of such hearing be given by the posting of notices in not less
than three public places within the boundaries of the proposed
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special benefit subdistrict for the purpose of determining whether
or not it is in the public interest that such improvement, or any
part thereof, be made.
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The foregoing Resolution was adopted May 26, 1958.