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HomeMy Public PortalAboutR0332 R E S O L U T I O N NO. 332 WHEREAS, the Board has received a petition from property owners in the area of Signal Hill Drive and Florissant Road in St. Louis County for the construction of lateral sanitary sewers to serve such area, and WHEREAS, investigation has shown that such area is not adequately served by lateral sanitary sewers and that the public health is affected, and WHEREAS, by Resolution No. 216, adopted November 13, 1958 and readopted by Resolution No. 225, a benefit subdistrict was created to be known as Special Benefit Subdistrict No. 67 (Signal Hill) for the construction of such sewers at a probable cost then estimated to be approximately Forty-two Thousand Dollars ($42,000.00); and WHEREAS, it is now estimated that the probable cost of installation of such sewers will be approximately Fifty-eight Thousand Dollars ($58,000.00), and that the most practicable method of payment therefor is by special tax bills, or other evidence of special benefit assessments upon the land benefitted by such installation, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that said Resolution No. 216 as readopted by Resolution No. 225 be and the same hereby is repealed. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a benefit subdistrict to be known as Special Benefit Subdistrict No. 67 (Signal Hill) of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District be and the same is hereby recreated for the purpose of constructing lateral sanitary sewers in the area of Signal Hill Drive and Florissant Road in St. Louis County, said area being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point, said point being the northeast corner of Ferguson Gardens Subdivision as recorded in Plat Book 46 on Page 35 of the St. Louis County Records; thence southwardly along the east line of said Ferguson Gardens Subdivision and along the southern prolongation of said east line to the north right-of- way line of the Mark Twain Highway; thence westwardly along said north right-of-way line to the southwest corner of said Ferguson Gardens Subdivision; thence northwardly and eastwardly along the western and northern lines of said subdivision to the point of beginning. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the construction of adequate lateral sanitary sewers in the area known as Subdistrict No. 67 (Signal Hill) is necessary in the interest of the public health; that such sewers shall consist of approximately 3,800 lineal feet of 8-inch pipe, which shall be capable of efficiently serving or draining the entire local drainage area; that the estimated probable cost of such improvement is Fifty-eight Thousand Dollars ($58,000.00); that the entire cost of such improvement shall be paid for by special tax bills or other evidence of special benefit assessments upon the land benefitted by such improvement; and that such improvement be constructed in said subdistrict, such facilities to flow into or be connected with existing public lateral sanitary sewers located at two points 3 situated approximately 150 feet and 350 feet, respectively, outside the aforementioned area. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that special benefit assessments for the entire cost of such improvement be levied against all land in the above described Special Benefit Subdistrict No. 67, whether public or private, in the proportion that each such lot or parcel of land bears to the entire benefitted area of such subdistrict, exclusive of public streets, roads and alleys. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a public hearing be held within said subdistrict to afford all persons interested in said improvement an opportunity to be heard; that such hearing shall be held at such time and place as the Executive Director shall determine, but not less than ten nor more than thirty days after the adoption of this Resolution; and that notice of such hearing shall be given by the publication of notice in at least one issue of a newspaper of general circulation within The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District not less than ten days in advance of the date of such hearing. 4 The foregoing Resolution was adopted on August 5, 1960.