Easements, Zoning & Other Restrictions
ARTICLE IX
EASEMENTS, ZONING AND OTHER RESTRICTIONS
9.01 Easements.
(a) Declarant hereby expressly reserves to the Declarant, its successors and assigns forever, the right to create perpetual easements in, on, over, and under any part of the Property owned by Declarant for any purpose which Declarant deems necessary, including, by way of example, and not limitation, the following:
(i) the erection, installation, construction, and maintenance of wires, lines, conduits, and poles and the necessary or proper attachments in connection with the transmission of electricity, telephone, cable television cables, and other utilities and similar facilities;
(ii) the erection, installation, construction, and maintenance of storm—water drains, land drains, public and private sewers, irrigation systems, pipelines for supplying gas, water, and heat, and for any other or quasi-public facility, service, or function;
(iii) slope control purposes, including the right to grade and plant slopes and prevent the doing of any activity might interfere with slopes or which might create erosion or sliding problems or which might change, obstruct, or retard drainage flow; and
(iv) the planting or re-planting of hedges, shrubbery, bushes, trees, flowers, and plants of any nature.
(b) An easement is hereby granted to all police, fire protection, ambulance, and other emergency vehicles and other service vehicles to enter upon the Common Property including, but not limited to, private streets, in the performance of their duties and further, an easement is hereby granted to the Association, its officers, agents, employees, and management personnel to enter the Common Property to render any service.
(c) Each Lot and its Owner is hereby declared to have an easement, and the same is hereby granted to Declarant, over all adjoining Lots and Common Property for the purpose of accommodating any encroachment due to engineering errors, errors in original construction, settlement, or shifting of any Structure, or any other cause. There shall be easements for the maintenance of said encroachment, settling, or shifting; provided, however, that in no event shall an easement for encroachment be created in favor of an Owner or Owners if said encroachment occurred due to the willful misconduct of said Owner or Owners. In the event a Structure on any Lot is partially or totally destroyed and then repaired or rebuilt, the Owners of each Lot agree that minor encroachments over adjoining Lots shall be permitted and there shall be easements for the maintenance of said encroachments so long as they shall exist. Each of the easements hereinabove referred to shall be deemed to be established upon the recordation of this Declaration and shall be appurtenant to the Lot being serviced and shall pass with each conveyance of said Lot.
(d) In the event that audio and video communication services and utilities are made available to any said Lots by means of an underground coaxial cable system, the company furnishing such services and facilities shall have a two foot (2') wide easement along and centered on the underground wire or cable when and as installed by said company from the utility easement nearest to the point of connection on the permanent improvement or Structure constructed, or to be constructed upon said Lot, and in a direct line from said nearest utility easement to said point of connection.
(e) No Owner shall have any right to use any easement retained by the Declarant or conveyed by Declarant to the Association in a manner that is inconsistent or which interferes with the intended use for such easement.
9.02 Easement Area. The words "Easement Area" as used herein shall mean those areas on any Lot or any other portion of the Property with respect to which easements are shown on a recorded deed, easement agreement, or on any filed or recorded map or plat relating thereto.
9.03 Entry. The Declarant and its employees, agents, successors, and assigns, shall have the right at all reasonable times to enter upon all parts of each Easement Area for any of the purposes for which such Easement Area is reserved, without being deemed to have committed a trespass or wrongful act solely by reason of such entry and the carrying out of such purposes, provided the same are done in accordance with the provisions of this Section. The Declarant and its employees, agents, successors, and assigns shall be responsible for leaving each Lot in good condition and repair following any work or activity undertaken in an Easement Area pursuant to the provisions of Section 9.01.
9.04 Zoning and Private Restrictions. None of the covenants, restrictions, or easements created or imposed by this Declaration shall be construed as permitting any action prohibited by the recorded subdivision plat of the Subdivision, applicable zoning laws, or by the laws, rules, or regulations of any governmental body. In the event of any conflict between such laws, rules, or regulations and the covenants, restrictions, and easements created or imposed by this Declaration, the most restrictive provision shall govern and control.