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Trinity School Conservation Easement <br />Draft 8/28/03 10 <br />1. PURPOSE. The purposes of this Conservation Easement are to ensure that the <br />Easement Area will be retained forever predominantly in its natural, forested, and open space <br />condition; to protect native plants and animals, or plant communities on the Easement Area, <br />while allowing traditional uses on the Easement Area that are compatible with and not <br />destructive of the conservation values of the Easement Area, including use of pedestrian trails as <br />provided in Paragraphs 3(c) and 4(c); and to prevent any use of the Easement Area that will <br />impair or interfere with the conservation values or interests of the Easement Area. <br />Grantors will not perform, nor knowingly allow others to perform, any act on or affecting <br />the Easement Area that is inconsistent with the purposes of this Conservation Easement. <br />However, unless otherwise specified below, nothing in this Conservation Easement shall require <br />the Grantors to take any action to restore the condition of the Easement Area after any act of God <br />or other event over which Grantors had no control. Grantors understand that nothing in this <br />Conservation Easement relieves them of any obligation or restriction on the use of the Easement <br />Area imposed by law. <br />2. EASEMENT AREA USES. Any activity on, or use of, the Easement Area <br />inconsistent with the purposes of this Conservation Easement is prohibited. The Easement Area <br />shall be maintained in its natural, scenic and open condition and restricted from any development <br />that would impair or interfere with the conservation values of the Easement Area. Without <br />limiting the generality of the foregoing, the following is a listing of activities and uses which are <br />expressly prohibited or which are expressly allowed. Grantors and Grantee have determined that <br />the allowed activities do not impair the conservation values of the Easement Area. Additional <br />retained rights of Grantors are set forth in Paragraph 3 below. <br />2.1 Subdivision. The Property may not be divided, subdivided or partitioned, <br />nor conveyed except in its current configuration as an entity. <br />2.2 Construction. Grantor and Grantee have the right to construct and <br />maintain a pedestrian trail intended for public use_within the Easement Area. The trail shall be <br />constructed within a 100-foot trail corridor located parallel to New Hope Creek and identified in <br />Exhibit B. The trail shall be no more than 10 feet wide and shall be sited so as to cause minimal <br />disturbance to the conservation values of the Easement Area. <br />Grantor has the right to construct and maintain pedestrian trails intended for use <br />within the Easement Area by students and faculty of the Trinity School, as long as they are <br />unpaved and ungraveled, no more than 6 feet wide, and sited so as to cause minimal disturbance <br />to the conservation values of the Easement Area. <br />No other structures maybe placed or constructed on the Easement Area except as <br />provided in Paragraphs 2.3 and 2.12. Furthermore, there shall be no constructing or placing of <br />any airplane landing strip, billboard or other advertising display, utility pole, utility tower, <br />