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HomeMy WebLinkAboutS-0556-C ApplicationBILL OF ASSURANCE KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: THAT, WHEREAS, Darbe Development Company, an Arkansas cor- poration (hereinafter called "Allotter" or "Darbe"), is the owner of the real property located in Pulaski County, Arkansas, described in the attached Exhibit "A' and incorporated herein. WHEREAS, it is deemed advisable that all of the described real property set forth in Exhibit "A", be now subdivided into building lots as shown on the attached Plat, and that said pro- perty be held, owned and conveyed subject to the protective cove- nants herein contained, in order to enhance the value of the said property. WHEREAS, it is deemed advisable that all of the above described property shown on the Plat, be now subdivided into building lots and streets as shown on the Plat, and that said proeprty be held, owned and conveyed subject to the protective covenants herein contained, in order to enhance the value of the said property. NOW THEREFORE, the Allotter, for and in consideration of the benefits to accrue to it, its successor and assigns, which.bene- fits it acknowledges to be of value, has caused to be made the Plat, filed herewith, showing a survey made by Timothy E. Daters, Registered Engineer, dated September, 1989, and bearing a Certificate of Approval executed by the Department of Comprehensive Planning of the City of Little Rock, and showing the bounds and dimensions of the property now being subdivided into lots and streets. Allotter hereby donates and dedicates to the public an ease- ment of way on, over and under the streets on Plat to be used as public streets. In addition to the said streets and center islands, there are shown on Plat certain easements for drainage and utilities which Allotter hereby donates and dedicates to and for the use by public utilities, the same being, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, electric power, gas, telephone, water and sewer, with the right hereby granted to the persons, firms or corporations engaged in the supplying of such utilities to use and occupy such easements, and to have free ingress and egress therefrom for the installation, maintenance, repair and replacement of such utility services. The filing of this Bill of Assurance and Plat for record in the office of the Circuit Clerk and Ex-Officio Recorder of Pulaski County shall be a valid and complete delivery and dedica- tion of the streets and easements subject to the limitations herein set out. The lands embraced in said plat shall be forever known as "lots 29-37, Pleasant Heights (Phase II), an Addition to the City of Little Rock, Arkansas" and any and every deed of conveyance of any lot in such addition describing the same by the number shown on said plat shall always be deemed a sufficient description thereof. The Allotter hereby reserves the right to use any surplus dirt in said streets for its own use and benefiti and for the use and benefit of any other person, firm or corporation as it may specifically designate from time to time. Said land herein platted and any interest therein shall be held, owned and conveyed subject to and in conformity with the following covenants: 1. Use of Land. The land herein platted shall be held, owned and used only as residential building sites. No structures shall be erected, altered, placed or permitted to remain on any building site other than a single detached single-family resi- dence. Each residence erected or maintained upon the land platted herein shall have a two -car carport or garage unless the requirement for such attachment is waived in writing by the Allotter. 2. Architectural Control. No building shall ble erected, placed or altered on any property in this addition until the building plans and specifications, exterior color scheme and plot plan showing the location and facing of such building with respect to existing topography, adjoining streets and finished ground elevations have been aprpoved, in writing, by the Allotter. In the event the Allotter fails to approve or disapprove any plans, specifications, exterior color scheme or plot plans within thirty days after being submitted to it, such plans, specifications, exterior color scheme or plot plans shall be deemed to fully meet the requirements of this covenant. Nothing contained in this covenant nor any consent by the Allotter shall in any way be deemed to prevent any owner of pro- perty in this addition from enforcing any legal rights which such owner may have as to any improvement in this addition. 3. Delegation of Authority. The Allotter has created the Pleasant Heights Property Owners Association, Inc., a non-profit corporation. The Allotter shall ahve the right, but not the obligation, by a written instrument recorded in the office of the Records for Pulaski County, Arkansas, to delegate, conveyand transfer to such corporation all authority, rights, privileges and duties reserved by the Allotter in this Bill of Assurance, including but not limited to architectural control, modification of setback requirements and consent to construction of out- buildings. 4. Creation of ❑bligation for Assessments. By acceptance of a deed or other conveyance of property covered by this Bill of Assurance each Owner shall be deemed to covenant and agree to pay any assessments, charges and/or special assessments which may hereinafter be levied by the Pleasant Heights Property Owners' Association, for the purpose of promoting the recreation, health, safety and welfare of the owners, in particular for the acquisi- tion, servicing, improvement and maintenance of Common Properties and facilities which may be hereafter dedicated for use by Allotters. 5. Height and Type of Residence. No residence shall be created, altered, placed or permitted to remain on any lot in this addition other than one detached single-family residence not to exceed two and one-half stories in height. 6. Setback Requirements. No residence shall be located on the lot nearer to the front lot line, rear lot line or nearer to the side street line than the minimum building setback lines shown on the recorded Plat; provided, such setback requirement may be modified if such modification is approved by the Allotter and the Little Rock Planning Commission or the Little Rock Board of Adjustment, or such other regulatory agency as may succeed to their functions. No building shall be located nearer to an interior lot side line than a distance of 10% of the average width of the lot, provided, however, that such distance need not exceed 10 feet. No principal dwelling shall be located on.any lot nearer than 25 feet to the rear lot line. For the purposes of this covenant, eaves, steps and porches not under roof shall not be considered as a part of the building. 7. Minimum Square Feet Area. No residence shall be constructed or permitted to remain on any building site in this addition unless the finished heated living areas, exclusive of porches, patios, carports, garages, breezeways, exdterior stair- ways, porte cocheres, storage areas and out -buildings, shall equal or exceed that shown in the following schedule: Lot Number All Lots in Phase II ONE STORY SPLIT LEVEL OR MULTI -STORY Minimum Sq. Ft. Minimum Square Feet 2,600 2,800 Finished heated living area shall be measured in a horizontal plane to the face of the outside wall on each level. 8. Height of Other Structures. No structure of any kind, including but not limited to any radio or television antenna or tower, shall be built or permitted to remain upon the lot if the height of such structure is more than six feet higher than the ridge line of the residence upon such lot. 9. Frontage of Residence on Streets. Any residence erected on any lot in this addition shall front or present a good fron- tage on the streets designated in the plat, and for this purpose as applied to all inside lots, it shall mean that the residence shall front on the street designated, and on any corner lot it shall mean that the residence shall front on one of the streets designated in the plat, or may be oriented to intersection. 10. Commercial Structures. No building or structure of any type may ever be placed, erected or used for business, pro- fessional, trade or ocmmercial purposes on any portion of any lot. This prohibition shall not apply to any business or struc- ture that may be placed on any lot or portion of a lot that is used exclusively by a public utility company in connection with the furnishing of public utility services to this addition. 11. Outbuildings Prohibited. No outbuildings or other detached structure appurtenant to the residence may be erected on any of the lots hereby restricted without the consent in writing of the Allotter and the approval in writing of the City of Little Rock. 12. Livestock and Poultry Prohibited. No animals, livestock or poultry of any kind shall be raised, bred or kept on any lot or part thereof, except that dogs, cats or other household pets may be kept, provided they are not kept, bred or maintained for commercial purposes. 13. Noxious Activity. No noxious or offense trade or acti- vity shall be carried on upon any lot, nor shall any trash, ashes orother refuse be thrown, placed or dumped upon any vacant lot, nor shall anything ever be done which may be or become an annoyance or nuisance to the neighborhood. 14. Billboards Prohibited. The construction or maintenance of billboards or advertising boards or structures on any lot is specifically prohibited, except that billboards advertising the sale or rental of such property are permitted, provided they do not exceed eight square feet in size. 15. Oil and Mineral Operations. No oil drilling, oil deve- lopment operating, oil refining, quarrying or mining operations of any kind shall be permitted upon or in any building site, nor shall oil wells, tanks, tunnels, mineral excavations or shafts be permitted upon or in any building site. No derrick or other structure designed for use in boring for oil or natural gas shall be erected, maintained or permitted upon any building site. 16. Cesspool. No leaching cesspool shall ever be constructed or used on any lot. 17. Existing Structure. No existing, errected building or structure of any sort may be moved onto or placed on any of the above described lots. 18. Temporary Structure. No trailer, tent, shack, garage, barn or other outbuilding other than a guest house and servants' quarters erected on a building site covered by these covenants shall at any time be used for human habitation, temporary or per- manently, nor shall any structure of a temporary character be used for human habitation. 19. Easements for Public Utilities and Drainage. Easements for the installation, maintenance, repair and replacement of uti- lity services, sewer and drainage have heretofore been donated and dedicated, said easements being of various widths, reference being hereby made to the plat filed herewith for a more specific description of width and location thereof. No trees, shrubbery, incinerators, structure, buildings, fences or similar improve- ments shall be grown, built or maintained within the area of such utility or drainage easement. In the event any trees, shrubbery, incinerators, structures, buildings, fences or similar improve- ments shall be grown, built or maintained within the area of such easement, no person, firm or corporation engaged in supplying public utility services shall be liable for the destruction of same in the installation, maintenance, repair or replacement of any utility service located within the area of such easement. 20. Common Driveway Easement. In addition to the aforesaid utility easements, the Grantor hereby creates and establishes two (2) common private driveway easements, one as shown on plat, for the common use of the owners of Lots 35, 36 and 37; one for the common use of the owners of Lots 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 and 34; the property abutting said easements, in connection with which such owners have the joint and several right to establish an obliga- tion to maintain a paved surface on said easements. 21. Fences. No fences, enclosure or part of any building or any type or nature whatsoever shall ever be constructed, erected, palced or maintained closer to the front lot line than the building setback line applicable and in effect as to each lot; provided, however, that chain link or similar fences are in all events strictly prohibited and shall not be used under any cir- cumstances; provided, further, that it is not the intentions of this paragraph to exclude the use of evergreens or other shrub- bery to landscape the front yards. Moreover, no automobile, truck, trailer, tent or temporary structure of any nature what- soever shall ever be parked, located or otherwise maintained on any lot, provided that it is not the intention of this paragraph to exclude the temporary parking of passenger automobiles on any portion of the garage driveway. 22. Sight Line Restriction. No fense, wall, hedge or shrub planting which obstructs sight lines at elevations between two and six feet above the roadways, shall be placed or permitted to remain on any corner lot within the triangular area formed by the street property lines and a line connecting them at points fifty (50) feet from the instersection of the street lines, or in the case of a rounded property corner, within the triangle formed by tangents to the curve at its beginning and end, and a line con- nection them at poitns fifty (50) feet from their intersection. No tree shall be permitted to remain within such distances of such intersections unless the foliage line is maintained at a height of eight feet to prevent obstruction of such sight lines. The same sight line limitations shall apply on any lot within ten feet of the intersection of the street property line with the edge of a driveway or alley pavement. 23. Property Lines and Boundaries. Iron pins have been set on all lot corners and points of curve and all lot dimensions shown on curves are chord distances, and all curve data as shown on the attached plat filed herewith its center line curve data. In the event of minor discrepancies between the dimensions or distances as shown on the attached plat and the actual dimensions and distances as disclosed by the established pins, the pins as set shall control. 24. Driveway Obstructions. No obstruction shall be placed in the street gutter. Curbs shall be broken at driveways,,and driveway grades lowered to emet the gutter line not more than two inches above the gutter grade. 25. Ground Frontaqe. No lot shall be subdivided. 26. Right to Enforce. The restrictions herein set forth shall run with the land and shall bind the present owner, its successors and assigns, and all parties claiming by, through or under it shall be taken to hold, agree and covenant with the owner of the lots hereby restricted, and with its successors and assigns, and with each of them to conform to and observe said restrictions as to the use of said lots and the construction of improvements thereon, but no restriction herein set forth shall be personally binding upon any corporation, person or persons, except in respect to breaches committed during its, his or their term of holding title to said land, and Allotter, its successors and assigns, and also the owner or owners of any of the lots hereby restricted shall have the right to sue for and obtain an injunction, prohibitive or mandatory, to prevent the breach of or to enforce the observance of the restrictions above set forth, in addition to ordinary legal action for damages and failure to Allotter, its successors or assigns, or any owner or owners of any lot or lots in this addition to enforce any of the restric- tions herein set forth at the time of its violation shall, in no event be deemed to be a waiver of the right to do so thereafter. 27. Modification of Restrictions. Any and all of the cove- nants, provisions or restrictions set forth in this Bill of Assurance may be amended, modified, extended, changed or can- celled, in whole or in part, by a written instrument signed and acknowledged by the owner or owners of more than 50% in area of the total land contained within this addition and all additional property which Allotter has reserved the right to plat in the future as part of Pleasant Heights, an Addition to the City of Little Rock, by obtaining preliminary plat approval from the City of Little Rock as to approximately 12 acres, provided only Darbe can amend, modify, extend, change or cancel any covenant provision or restriction as long as it owns a Lot in any par- ticular Phase of said Addition. The provisions of such instru- ment so executed shall be binding from and after the date it is duly filed for record in Pulaski County, Arkansas. Each covenant in this instrument, unless expressly provided otherwise, shall remain in full force and effect until January 1, 2029. 28. Extension. All covenants for which extension is not otherwise provided in this instrument shall automatically be extended for successive periods of ten years each unless modified, terminated or cancelled as provided herein. 29. Separability. Invalidation of any restriction set forth herein or any part thereof by an order, judgment or decress of any court, or otherwise, shall not invalidate or affect any of the other restrictions or any part thereof as set forth herein, but they shall remain i�full force and effect. EXECUTED this / a day of September, 1989. LITTLE � PL C--r- I`q C Slotd [A-PPROVED By: ATTEST: By. d a. Melvyn B , Secretary DARBE DEVELOPMENT COMPANY Vice President ACKNOWLEDGMENT STATE OF ARKANSAS COUNTY OF PULASKI On this day personally appeared before the undersigned, a Notary Public within and for the said County and State afore- said, duly qualified, commissioned, and acting, the within named L.K. Moore, Jr. and Melvyn Bell, to me personally well known, who stated that they were the Vice President and Secretary, respec- tively, of Darbe Development Company, and stated and acknowledged that they were duly authorized in their respective capacities to execute the foregoing instrument for and in the name and behalf of said corporation, and further stated and acknowledged that they had so signed, executed and delivered said foregoign instru- ment for the consideration and purposes therein mentioned and set forth. WITNESS MY HAND AND OFFICIAL SEAL on this day of September, 1989. h My CormAiission Expires: -I z-c35 EXHIBIT "A" Legal Desciption Part of the NE1/4, NE1/4, Section 31, T-2-N, R-13-W, Pulaski County, Arkansas, more particularly described as: Beginning at the southwest corner of Lot 22, Pleasant Heights, Phase I, an Addition to the City of Little Rock, Arkansas; thence S67°42'16"E along the rear lot lines of Lots 22, 23, 24, & 25, said Pleasant Heights, Phase I, an Addition to the City of Little Rock, Arkansas, 657.9 ft. to the northwest corner of Lot 27; thence S50°07'16"E, 205.05 ft. to the northwest corner of Lot 28, said Pleasant Heights, Phase I; thence S26°06'44"W, 110.0 ft. to the southwest corner of Lot 28; thence S63°29'16"E, 20.0 ft. to a point on the North Right -of -Way line of Pleasant Heights Drive; thence S27°13'29"W, 234.2 ft. to a point; thence N58°57'39"W, 368.19 ft. to a point; thence N49°23'35"W, 231.75 ft. to a point; thence southwesterly along the arc of a 73.79 ft. radius curve to the left, having a chord bearing and distance of S84°47'04"W, 1.5 ft. to a point; thence continue southwesterly along the arc of a 25 ft. radius curve to the left, having a chord bearing and distance of S46039'09"W, 31.51 ft. to a point; thence southerly and northerly along the arc of a 50 ft. radius curve to the right, having a chord bearing and distance of N36045'10"W, 71.45 ft. to a point; thence N12°18'54"W, 328.3 ft. to the point of beginning, containing 5.7769 acres more or less. M E M O R A N D U M TO: Van McClendon FROM: Carroll Ball SUBJECT: Final Subdivision Plats PLEASANT HEIGHTS Lots 29 -37 :Approved. Street construction was previously approved n•