Private property may be taken and appropriated, either within or without the City, for any public use in connection with any acquisition, enlargement, or extension of municipal public utilities, including, but not by the way of limitation, utilities for supplying water, light, heat, power, gas, sewage treatment, and garbage disposal, or any of them; for the purpose of opening, widening, altering, and extending streets, alleys and avenues; for the construction of bridges, for public buildings and for other public structures; for public grounds, parking spaces, parks, market places; for public housing projects; or the improvement of waters and water courses within the City; for sewers, drains and ditches; for public hospitals, pest houses, quarantine grounds and public cemeteries; and for all other lawful and necessary public use. The ownership of such property shall be acquired by the City by negotiation and purchase, or in any other manner permitted by the general laws of the State for the taking of private property for public use.