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Draft 12/1/0.3 (clean) 7 <br />(5) The North Carolina Conservation Tax Credit Program, North Carolina General <br />Statute 105-130.34 and 105-151.12 et seq„ which provides for state income tax credits for <br />donations of land that are useful for fish and wildlife conservation and other similar land <br />conservation purposes; <br />(6) The establishment of the North Carolina Farmland Preservation Trust Fund <br />established in 1986 (N.C.G.S. 106-744(c)) to preserve important farmland in North Carolina; <br />(7) The special use assessment of farm and forestland as set forth in North Carolina <br />General Statute 105-277..2 et seq.; and <br />(8) The zoning of the Property by Orange County as Agricultural Residential. <br />Grantors and Grantee have the common purpose of protecting the above-described <br />conservation values and current condition of the Property and preventing conversion of the <br />Property to nonagricultural uses and Grantor agrees to create and implement a conservation <br />plan (hereinafter the "Conservation Plan") that is developed utilizing the standards and <br />specification of the NRCS field office technical guide and 7 CFR part 12, and is approved by <br />the local Soil and Water Conservation District; <br />The Grantee is a body politic existing under Chapter 153A of the North Carolina <br />General Statutes, and is qualified to hold Easements under the applicable laws of the State of <br />North Carolina; <br />NOW, THEREFORE, for the reasons given, and in consideration of their mutual <br />covenants, terms, conditions and restrictions contained herein, the parties agree as follows, <br />Grant of Agricrtural Easement <br />Grantors hereby voluntarily grant and convey to the Grantee, and the Grantee hereby <br />voluntarily accepts, a perpetual Agricultural Conservation Easement in the Property, which <br />easement is, an immediately vested interest in real property the nature and character described <br />herein, Grantors promise that they will not perform, nor knowingly allow others to perform, <br />any act on or affecting the Property that is inconsistent with the covenants herein. Grantors <br />authorize the Grantee to enforce these covenants in the manner described below, <br />Grantors hereby voluntarily grant and convey to the Grantee all development rights for <br />the Property, except as otherwise reserved and provided by the terms of this Easement, that are <br />now or hereafter inherent in the Property,. The parties agree that such development rights are <br />terminated and extinguished, and may not be used on or transmitted to any portion of'the <br />Property, as it now or hereafter may be bounded or described, or transmitted, transferred or <br />otherwise conveyed to any other property, <br />