2018-725-E Housing - Community Home Trust development agreement Lexes Trail

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13 Property during the term of this Declaration, that this Declaration and the covenants and restrictions set forth in this Declaration regulating and restricting the use, occupancy and transfer of the Property (1) shall be and are covenants running with the land, encumbering the Property for the term of this Declaration, binding upon all present and future owners of the Property; (2) are not personal covenants of Declarant; and (3) shall bind all present and future owners (and the benefits shall inure to the County and any prospective owner of the Property) and its respective successors and assigns during the term of this Declaration. For the term of this Declaration, each and every contract, lease, deed or other instrument hereafter executed conveying the Property or portion thereof shall expressly provide that such conveyance is subject to this Declaration, provided, however, the covenants contained herein shall survive and be effective regardless of whether such contract, lease, deed, or other instrument hereafter executed conveying the Property or portion thereof provides that such conveyance is subject to this Declaration. It is further the responsibility of CHT to rerecord this Declaration periodically and no less often than one day less than every 30 years from the date hereof for the purpose of renewing the rights of first refusal in the Property or portion thereof including any leasehold interest in the Property or portion thereof. The County retains the right to, periodically and every 30 years after the first recording of the Ground Lease created in ATTACHMENT C hereof, register, with the Register of Deeds of Orange County, a notice of preservation of the Restrictive Covenants on the Property as provided in North Carolina General Statute § 47B-4 or any comparable preservation law in effect at the time of the recording of the notice of preservation. It is the intent of this Section 3 of this Declaration that the 99 year duration of this Declaration of Restrictive Covenants be accomplished and that any future owner of the Property, CHT and Orange County will do what is necessary to ensure that the same is not extinguished by N.C. Gen. Stat. § 41-29 or any comparable law purporting to extinguish, by the passage of time, preemptive rights in the Property and by the Real Property Marketable Title Act or any comparable law purporting to extinguish, by the passage of time, non possessory interests in real property. Any future owner of the Property, CHT and Orange County will to do what each must do to accomplish the 99 year duration of this Declaration of Restrictive Covenants. SECTION 4 ENFORCEMENT OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING REQUIREMENTS a. At the time of resale of the project dwelling unit, CHT will convey a housing unit to qualified homebuyer. Each housing unit will consist of a 99 year Ground Lease (renewable for an additional 99 years) to the project dwelling unit. The Ground Lease, the form of which is ATTACHMENT C hereto, provides for the long term affordability (at least 99 years) of the housing unit and provides remedies to insure the long term affordability of the housing unit. CHT hereby declares and covenants, on behalf of itself and all future owners of the Property, that, during the term of this Declaration, the County is a third party beneficiary of and successor to each and every remedy intended to insure the long term affordability of the housing unit that is provided for in the Ground Lease and may, in the event of the failure or default of the Lessor in the Ground Lease to insure the long term affordability of the housing unit as provided for in the Ground Lease, exercise all rights and remedies available to the Lessor in the Ground Lease for that purpose. b. CHT covenants that it will not knowingly take or permit any action that would result in a violation of the affordability requirements of the GRANT AGREEMENT. Orange County, DocuSign Envelope ID: 1C608BEC-B713-4BE4-9E53-CD92D598627F