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DECLARATION OF RESTRICTIONS AND COVENANTS
June 23, 2005

This declaration, made this ___________day of ______________,______by Skirig Development Inc., (SDI) a Connecticut limited liability company with an office and a place of business at 500 Bridge Street, Groton, CT 06340, County of New London and State of Connecticut.

Where as SDI is the owner of a certain track of land located in the town of Stonington, County of New London, and state of Connecticut and shown and consisting of all the lots on a plan entitled "Blueberry Pond", a 39 lot subdivision on property of Downes Patterson Corp., located on property off of Cronin Ave and Parkwood Drive, Stonington CT., scale 1inch equals one hundred feet dated October 25 1988, revised July 26, 2002 sheets 1 through 26 by Dicesare Bentley Engineers land surveyor Connecticut No., 14662, said plans are on file in the Stonington land records, to which reference is hereby made and may be had for a particular description and location of said lots as subdivided; and

Whereas, said SDI intends to use lots for residential dwelling houses and /or construct dwelling houses for sale and/or sell said lots to individuals for construction of houses, said sales to be subject to certain protective restrictions, conditions, limitations, reservations and covenants, in order to insure the most beneficial development of said lots as residential areas and to prevent unsightly activity or any such use thereof as might deem to diminish the valuable and pleasurable enjoyment thereof.

NOW THEREFORE, the said SDI declares that the above described lots are held, will be held and shall be conveyed by it, subject to the restrictions and covenants set forth in this Declaration, to wit:

  1. Lots in this subdivision shall be residential lots. All buildings erected thereon shall be one-family dwellings, and shall only be used for residential purposes, and no such lot shall have a garage constructed thereon for more than three cars.

  2. No trailer, basement, tent, shack, garage, barn or other outbuildings erected on any lot shall, at any time be used as a residence temporarily or permanently, nor shall any structure of a temporary character be used as a residence.

  3. The total floor area of the living portion of the main structure, exclusive of one story open porches, breezeways, and garages shall not be less than 2,400 square feet. The calculation of this total floor area square footage shall not include basement areas, whether finished in part or whole as living space.

  4. The storage of an unregistered motor vehicle is prohibited on any lot except within a related structure or within a natural evergreen screened area compatible with the surrounding landscape.

  5. Each lot owner shall keep all lots owned by him, and all improvements thereon, in good order and repair and free of debris including, but not limited to the seeding, watering, and mowing of all lawns, the pruning and cutting of all trees and shrubbery and the painting (or other appropriate external care) of all building and other improvements, all in a manner and with such frequency as is consistent with good property management.

  6. No noxious or offensive trade or activity shall be carried on or upon any lot nor shall anything be done thereon which may be or become a nuisance to the abutting land owners or the neighborhood.

  7. No lot shall be used or maintained as a dumping ground for rubbish, trash, garbage or other waste. All rubbish, trash, incinerators or other equipment for the disposal of such material, except for the usual household sink waste disposal system and trash compactor, shall be kept or maintained on any lot.

  8. These covenants and restrictions are to run with the land and shall be binding upon all parties and all persons owning parcels or claiming under them for a period of ten (10) years from the date these covenants are recorded, after which time said covenants and restrictions shall automatically extend for successive periods of ten (10) years unless an instrument, signed by the majority of the then owners of the parcels, agreeing to change said covenants and restrictions in whole or in part, has been recorded in the Stonington Land Records.

  9. If the owners of such parcels or any of them or their heirs or assigns; shall violate any of the covenants hereinafter set out, it shall be lawful for any other person owning real property situated in such subdivision to prosecute any proceedings at law or in equity against the person or persons violating any of such covenants, and either to prevent him from so doing or to recover damages for such violation, or both.

  10. Invalidation of any of these covenants by judgment or court order shall in no way affect any of the other provisions which shall remain in full force an effect.

  11. All lots sold to individuals for construction of houses, shall have their plans reviewed and approved during the construction period by SDI.

_______________________ The Skirig Development Inc.


_______________________ ________________________________


STATE OF CONNECTICUT

COUNTY OF NEW LONDON

On this the _____________day of ____________, before me, ___________ the undersigned officer, personally appeared ______________ who acknowledged himself to be a member of Skirig Development Inc., a corporation, and that he, as such member, being authorized so to do, executed the foregoing instrument for the purposes therein contained, by signing the name of the corporation by himself as a member.


In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand

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