The appeals court rejected the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District’s argument that its unpaid sewer bills, attached as liens to properties, superseded the state Municipal Land Reutilization Law that created the city tax sales process and land bank intended to clear titles to abandoned real estate. A lawyer for the STL Vacancy Collaborative, which works to mitigate the impacts of vacant property in the city and filed an amicus brief with the court against MSD’s position, cheered the ruling. St. Louis has the oldest municipal land bank in the country, created in 1971 to take ownership of thousands of abandoned properties left behind by the post-war exodus of a half million people to the suburbs.
Author: By Jacob Barker St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Published at: 2025-07-22 21:00:00
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