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PROTECTIVE
COVENANTS
FOR TWIN CREEK
MEADOWS ROAD ASSOCIATION
WHEREAS, the undersigned are the
owners of real property located in the County of Larimer, State of Colorado,
more particularly described in Exhibit "A" attached hereto and incorporated
herein by reference and hereinafter referred to as "the Property" and
WHEREAS, the undersigned desire
to provide for the maintenance of roads and desire to establish certain
standards covering the Property by means of protective covenants to insure the
lasting beauty, value, and enjoyment of the Property, and to this end, together
with such additions as may hereinafter be made thereto, the covenants,
restrictions, easements, charges, and liens as hereinafter set forth, and
WHEREAS, the undersigned deem it
desirable for the efficient preservation of the values and amenities of said
Property to create an agency to which should be delegated and assigned the
powers and duties of maintaining and administering the roads and administering
and enforcing the covenants and restrictions and collecting and disbursing the
assessments and charges hereinafter created, and
WHEREAS, the undersigned will
incorporate under the laws of the State of Colorado as a non-profit
corporation, the Twin Creek Meadows Road Association (hereinafter referred to
as "the Association") for the purpose of exercising the functions aforesaid;
NOW, THEREFORE, the undersigned
do hereby publish and declare that in addition to the ordinances of the County
of Larimer, State of Colorado, the following terms, covenants, conditions,
easements, restrictions, reservations, limitations, uses, locations, and
obligations shall be deemed to run with the land and shall be a burden and
benefit to the undersigned, their successors, and assigns, and any persons or
entity acquiring or owning an interest in the real property and improvements,
their grantees, and their heirs, executors, administrators, devisees,
successors, or assigns.
1. Board of Directors and
Architectural Control.
A. Board of Directors. The
governing body of the Association shall be the Board of Directors, as provided
in the Articles of Incorporation and the By-Laws of the Association. Unless
otherwise stipulated in the Articles of incorporation or the By-Laws or the
By-Laws of the Association, the Board of Directors shall serve as the
Architectural Control Committee.
B. Architectural Control. No
building or other structure, including but not limited to dwellings, sheds,
garages, and outbuildings shall be erected, placed, or altered on any lot,
tract or parcel of the Property until the plans and specifications along with a
plot plan (submitted in duplicate) showing the location of the structure have
been approved by the Architectural Control Committee, which plan shall, among
other things, show the type of exterior material and finish, exterior design,
existing structures, if any, and location of the structure with respect to
topography and finished grade. Should the Architectural Control Committee or
its successors or assigns fail to approve or disapprove the plans and
specifica- tions submitted to it by the owner of a lot or tract within thirty
(30) days after written request therefor, then such approval shall not be
required and shall be deemed to have been given. However, no building or other
structure shall be erected or allowed to remain on any lot or tract which
violates any of the covenants or restrictions contained herein. At the time
said plans and specifications are approved, the builder or owner shall proceed
diligently with the construction, and the exterior of any such structure shall
be completed within eighteen (18) months of the date of approval by the
Architectural Control Committee. The Architectural Control Committee may grant
an extension beyond the eighteen (18) month construction period for good cause
and when such extension is requested by the owner. Any member of the
Architectural Control Committee may designate any other member to act for him.
In the event of the death or resignation of any member of the Board of
Directors/Architectural Control Committee, the remaining members shall have
full authority to designate a successor. An election shall he held at the next
regularly scheduled meeting of the members of the Association following such
death or resignation to designate or re-designate the Board of
Directors/Architectural Control Committee. No member of the Board of
Directors/Architectural Control Committee shall be entitled to any compensation
for services performed pursuant to these covenants.
2. Land Use and Building Type.
No parcel of land shall be used for any purpose other than single-family
residential. No buildings other than a single-family dwelling with a private
attached or unattached garage (if desired) or unattached pump house (if
desired), non-residential outbuildings and structures such as a barn, stable,
or corral for use specifically in connection with the care of livestock
permitted under these covenants, or the maintenance of equipment, or two guest
houses, shall be erected, placed, or permitted to remain on any lot or tract;
3. Building Location and
Easements. No building or other structure shall be located so as to interfere
with any easement. There shall be a right-of-way easement thirty (30) feet in
each direction from the center line of all existing and proposed roads. There
shall be a twenty (20) foot utility easement adjacent to and parallel with all
such road right-of-ways, lot lines, and section lines. There shall be utility
guying easements on all lots or tracts as required by the utility involved.
4. Nuisance. Nothing which may
be or may become annoying or a nuisance to other lot or tract owners shall be
permitted on any lot or tract. No obnoxious or offensive activity or commercial
business or trade shall be carried on upon any lot or tract, except that
professional offices such as those of a doctor, lawyer, dentist, or engineer
may be maintained within the main dwelling. For purposes of this covenant,
ungaraged or unstored inoperative automobiles, machines, or other equipment
which remain on any lot or tract for longer than ninety (90) days is a
nuisance.
5. Temporary Residence. No
structure of a temporary character, trailer, mobile home, basement, tent, or
accessory building shall be used on any lot or tract as a residence. However, a
pickup camper, camper trailer, or motor home, may occupy a lot if the lot has a
permanent residential structure thereon. A pickup camper or camper trailer may
occupy a lot for a period not to exceed eighteen (18) months for construction
purposes during the construction of the initial residential structure. In
addition, a camper trailer, tent or pickup camper may occupy a lot or tract for
a period not to exceed one hundred twenty (120) days per calendar year. The
Architectural Control Committee may grant relief from this provision when good
cause is shown.
6. Refuse and Rubbish. Rubbish,
refuse, garbage, and other wastes shall be kept within sealed containers, shall
not be allowed to accumulate on the Property, and shall be disposed of in a
sanitary manner. No tract or easement shall be used or maintained as a dumping
ground for such materials. All containers shall be kept in a neat, clean,
sanitary condition.
7. Livestock. Any lot or tract
may be used for the grazing of livestock such as cattle, horses, and sheep.
overgrazing is prohibited; the livestock shall not be permitted to run loose
and shall be properly cared for with adequate maintenance, food, and shelter.
It shall e the responsibility of the owner to fence the lot or tract w en
livestock are to be maintained on such lot or tract.
8. Fences. Fences shall be
permitted on individual lots or tracts provided, however, that any fence shall
be so constructed as to not interfere with the easements required for access to
adjoining lands, unless cattle guards are installed in place of gates.
9. Roads. All roads within or
providing access to the Property shall be considered as private roads for the
private use of the members of the Association and their guests. The ownership
of said roads shall be in the Association, and the maintenance of said roads
shall be the responsibility of said Association.
10. Road Maintenance. The
following Road Maintenance Agreement shall be and becomes a covenant upon the
land and running therewith.
A. All owners of any lot or
tract shall be members of the Association and shall be obligated to maintain
the roads and to bear the costs thereof from and after January 1, 1978. The
amount of the cost which shall be paid by each lot or tract owner shall be
determined by dividing the total cost of maintenance by the total number of lot
or tracts within the Property, and the owner or owners of each lot or tract
shall pay his proportionate percentage share of said cost. For purposes of this
determination and for determining the membership of said Association, persons
owning a lot or tract in joint tenancy or tenancy in common shall be considered
to be the owner of one (1) lot or tract of land and entitled to one (1) vote,
and each unit of land shall be considered as one (1) unit in prorate share of
expense. If a person or persons own more than one (1) lot or tract, he or they
shall nonetheless be responsible for payment of the costs allocated to one lot
or tract only. In the event any lot or tract is resubdivided, each person or
persons purchasing a portion of any such subdivided lot or tract shall be an
owner for purposes of this Road Maintenance Agreement and shall be obligated to
maintain the roads and to bear the cost thereof as herein provided.
B. At no time shall any owner of
any lot or tract be obligated to pay more than forty dollars ($40.00) in any
one (1) year for road maintenance. This provision may be waived by the express
consent of any tract owner who wishes to pay in excess of this amount in any
one (1) year. This limit may be revised as future needs dictate by the
Association as provided in the By-Laws or Articles of Incorporation of the
Association.
C. In the event that an expense
is incurred for road maintenance, repair, or development, any lot or tract
owner may enforce the terms and conditions of this Agreement in any Court of
law or equity and may obtain a judgment therefor.
D. It is covenanted and agreed
that the terms an conditions of this Agreement shall be for the mutual use and
benefit of all the present and future lot or tract owners and that this
Agreement shall constitute covenants that run with and are attached to the
land.
E. All payments are to be made
to the Association. In the event that said Association shall fail or refuse to
act, then the owners of the lots or tracts themselves may, by a two-thirds
(2/3) majority vote of their number, determine to whom payments shall be made
and the manner and time of payment.
11. Enforcement. Enforcement of
these covenants shall be by appropriate proceedings at law or in equity against
those persons violating or attempting to violate any covenant or covenants.
Such judicial proceedings shall be for the purpose of removing a violation,
restraining a future violation, for recovery of damages for any violation, for
recovery of assessments due, or for such other and further relief as may be
available. The failure to enforce or to cause the abatement of any violation of
these covenants shall not preclude or prevent the enforcement thereof of a
further or continued violation of these covenants whether said violation shall
be of the same or a different provision within these covenants. The statute of
limitations applicable now or in the future is hereby waived for said
enforcement purposes.
12. Severability. Should any
part or parts of these covenants be declared invalid or unenforceable by any
Court of competent jurisdiction, such decisions shall not affect the validity
of the remaining covenants.
13. Duration and Alteration-of
Protective Covenants. The herein included agreements, covenants, restrictions,
and conditions shall run with the land, shall be binding upon all per- sons
owning lots, tracts, or parcels of the Property and persons hereinafter
acquiring said lots, tracts, or parcels of the Property and shall be in effect
for a period of thirty (30) years from and after the date of these covenants,
after which period said covenants shall cease to be and be of no further force
and effect unless the owners of a majority of the lots or tracts, shall elect,
in writing duly filed to extend said covenants for an additional specified
period, at which time these covenants shall cease to be and be of no further
force and effect unless similarly extended for an additional period or periods.
Provisions for maintenance of the roads shall not be permitted to lapse with
the other covenants unless other provisions are made for continuation of said
road maintenance. These protective covenants may be altered in whole or in part
at any time the then record owners of two-thirds (2/3) of the lots or tracts
elect, through a duly written and recorded instrument.
14. General Reservations. The
undersigned, their successors and assigns, shall have the right to bring within
the scheme of these Protective Covenants and the structure of the association
additional properties in accordance with a general plan of development. Such
additions shall be made by filing of record a supplement to these Protective
Covenants. Such supplement may contain such additions and modifications of
these Protective Covenants as may be necessary to reflect the different
character, if any, of the added properties and as are not inconsistent with the
scheme of these Covenants. In no event, however, shall such supplement revoke,
modify, or add to the covenants and restrictions established by these
Protective Covenants with respect to the Property.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have
hereunto set our hands and seals this 9th day of November, 1977. WESTERN LAND
AND INVESTMENT CORPORATION, a Wyoming Corporation By Karl Schakel, President
Mike O'Dell, Secretary NEBRASKA PLAINS FARMING COMPANY, a Nebraska Corporation
By Karl Schakel, President Timothy W. Hasler, Secretary
EXHIBIT A
Township 12 North, Range 70 West
of the 6th P.M. Section 29: All lying West of a line described as follows:
Starting at a point which bears S 89 35' W 1047.4 feet from the Northeast
corner of said Section 29; thence S 04 00' E to the South line of said Section;
Section 31: All; Section 32: All that part of Section 32 described as follows:
Beginning at the Northeast corner of said Section; thence along the North line
N 89 55' W 703.3 feet to the county road; thence Southeasterly along the
Easterly line of said county road to the intersection with the East line of
said Section; thence North along said East section line 2,016 feet to the point
of beginning; Section 33: All, except that portion of said Section 33 described
as follows: Beginning at the Southwest corner of said Section; thence North
along the West line 3,267 feet to the center-line of the county road; thence
Southeasterly along the said county road to the intersection of the South line
of said Section; thence along said line S 89 52' W 972 feet to the point of
beginning, containing 36.43 acres. |