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Draft 8/26/04 <br />forth: <br />15 <br />The terms, conditions and restrictions of the Conservation Easement are as hereinafter set <br />Grant of Agricultural and Watershed Pr°otection Conservation L^'asement <br />Grantors hereby voluntarily grant and convey to the parties Grantee, and the parties <br />Grantee hereby voluntarily accept, a perpetual Agricultural and Watershed Protection <br />Conservation Easement (herein "Conservation Easement") in the Property, which Easement is an <br />immediately vested interest in real property the nature and chazacter described herein. Grantors <br />promise that they will not perform, nor knowingly allow others to perform, any act on or <br />affecting the Property that is inconsistent with the covenants herein. Grantors authorize the <br />parties Grantee to enforce these covenants in the manner described below. <br />Grantors hereby voluntarily grant and convey to the parties Grantee all development <br />rights for the Property, except as otherwise reserved and provided by the terms of this <br />Conservation Easement, that are now or hereafter inherent in the Property. The parties agree that <br />such development rights are terminated and extinguished, and may not be used on or transmitted <br />to any portion of the Property, as it now or hereafter may be bounded or described, or used or <br />transferred to any other property adjacent or otherwise, nor used for the purpose of calculating <br />permissible lot yield of the Property or any other property. <br />2. Staterrrerrt of Purpose <br />The primary purposes of this Agricultural and Watershed Protection Conservation <br />Easement are to enable the Property to remain in agricultural use by preserving and protecting its <br />agricultural soils and agricultural viability and productivity, and to protect the streams tributary <br />to the Cane Creek Reservoir from the risk of adverse impacts arising from use or development of <br />the Property contrary to the provisions of this Conservation Easement. Except as specifically <br />permitted herein, no activity that would impair the actual or potential agricultural use of the <br />Property, or that would risk causing adverse impact to any stream tributary to Cane Creek <br />Reservoir shall be permitted, To the extent that the preservation and protection of the natural, <br />historic, recreational, habitat or scenic values referenced in this Conservation Easement aze <br />consistent with the primary purposes stated above, it is within the purpose of this Conservation <br />Easement to also protect those values, and no activity that would significantly impair those <br />values shall be permitted.. <br />This Conservation Easement shall be perpetual. It is an easement in gross, runs with the <br />land and is enforceable by Grantee against the Grantors, their representatives, heirs, successors <br />and assigns, lessees, agents, and licensees, <br />3. Rights and Responsibilities Retained by Grantor°s <br />Subject to the terms and restrictions hereof; the Grantors reserve to and for themselves <br />and their successors the right to quiet enjoyment of the Property and the right to paztake in <br />passive recreation on the Property. The Grantors reserve to and for themselves and their <br />successors all customary rights and privileges of ownership, including the rights to sell, lease, <br />