[CC 2012 § 20.010; Ord. No. 198]
The Board of Aldermen shall have power to create, open and improve
any public square, public park, street, avenue, alley or other highway,
old or new, and also to vacate or discontinue the same whenever deemed
necessary or expedient; provided, that all damages sustained by the
citizens of the City or the owners of the property therein shall be
ascertained as prescribed in other cases of condemnation of private
property for public use; and provided that whenever any private square,
street, avenue, or alley, or other highway shall be vacated, the same
shall revert to the owners of the adjacent lots in proportion as it
was taken from them; and when the grade of any street or alley shall
have been once established by ordinance, it shall not be lawful to
change such grade without making compensation to all persons owning
real estate on such square, street, avenue, alley or other highway,
who may be damaged by such change of grade, to be determined and governed
in all respects, with reference to benefit and damages, as is provided
by the laws of Missouri with reference to condemnation of private
property for public use.
[CC 2012 § 20.020; Ord. No. 179]
Before the Board of Aldermen shall make any contract for building
bridges, culverts or sewers, or for paving, macadamizing, curbing,
guttering or grading any street, avenue, alley or other highway, an
estimate of the cost thereof shall be made by the City Engineer or
other person designated by the Board of Aldermen, and submitted to
said Board, and no contract shall be entered into for any such work
or improvement for a price exceeding such estimate; provided, that
no such estimate shall be required for the making of any local or
special repairs.
