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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2016-674 Housing - Community Home Trust - Termination of Declaration of Restrictive Covenants ��t5 in Prepared by: Annette Moore,Esquire,Orange County Staff Attorney,P.O.Box 8181,Hillsborough,NC 27278 After recording return to: TERMINATION OF DECLARATION OF RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS WHEREAS, Community Home Trust, a successor in interest to Or Community Housing and Land Trust, a North Carolina non-profit housing organization and land trust ("Owner") in June 2000 purchased property located at 305 Pleasant Drive in Carrboro, North Carolina hereinafter referred to as "the Property"; and WHEREAS, Owner in in July 2002 requested that Orange County, a local political subdivision of the State of North Carolina, ("County") reallocated Thirty Thousand Dollars of Orange County Housing Trust Fund to Owner in the form of a grant for the purpose of rehabilitation of the Property so they could sell it to a first-time homebuyer earning less than 80% of the HUD area median income; and WHEREAS, the County granted Owner's request and the Parties entered into a Development Agreement, dated November 6, 2002, which as a condition precedent to receipt of the funds, the Owner was required to place on the Property a 99 year period of affordability secured by a Ground Lease with restrictions to ensure further compliance and further secured it with a Declaration of Restrictive Covenants making the County a third party beneficiary and successor to the long term affordability remedies in the Ground Lease in the event of a failure of or inability of Owner to enforce the long term affordability remedies in the Ground Lease; and WHEREAS, the Owner, as required by the Development Agreement, placed a Declaration of Restrictive Covenants ("Declaration") recorded at Book 2916, Page 531 in the Orange County Registry, and more particularly described in Exhibit A, which is attached and incorporated herein, on the Property; and WHEREAS, the Owner has repurchased the Property and has determined that they do not have the funds for the extensive renovation required to return the property to a standard suitable for conveying the Property to a low income buyer; and WHEREAS, Owner is now requesting that Orange County terminate the Declaration of Restrictive Covenants so that they can sell the Property out of the low income housing affordability portfolio and return the funds invested to the County to be reused for other affordable housing projects; and WHEREAS on November 15, 2016 the Orange County Board of Commissioners, at a duly noticed meeting, approved the termination of the Declaration of Restrictive Covenants so that the Property can be sold and County funds invested in the property returned to the County to be reused for other County affordable housing projects. NOW, THEREFORE for good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is acknowledged, the County hereby agrees that the Declaration of Restrictive Covenants recorded at Book 2916, Page 531 in the Orange County Registry is terminated and each term, condition and provision shall have no effect after the effective date of this termination. I request that this Termination of Declaration of Restrictive Covenants be recorded and the above-referenced Declaration of Restrictive Covenants be canceled. SIGNATURE PAGE TO FOLLOW Exhibit A EXHIBIT A-Property Description Beginning at an existing iron in the southwestern corner of the intersection of Pleasant Drive and Crest Street thence along the right-of-way of Pleasant Drive South 44 degrees 14'05"West 52 40 feet to iron stake,a control corner,thence along the line of the Fitch Lands North 45 degrees 39'00"West 15230 feet to a point thence a new line North 43 degrees 14'24"East 5166 feet to a point in the fight-of- way of Crest Street thence along the margin of the right-of-way of Crest Street South 46 degrees 55' 35"East 153 21 feet to the point and place of BEGINNING and being 7,947 square feet according to the survey entitled"Property of Mark A. Roffman and Maureen A.Driscoll"prepared by Dale D Faulkner,RLS,June 7, 1994, Also,BEING ALL of Lot 2 of the property of TIMOTHY N GALI.IHER and ANITA S. GALLIHER according to that certain plat and survey thereof as recorded in Plat Book 49,Page 168,Orange County registry. PLN#: 9778-99.1075 TM#: 7.94.A.9A IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound, have set their hands on this the Z 3 day of 201 . ORANGE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA Earl McKee, Chair Orange County Board of Commissioners ATTEST: -:--D-A Deputy/Clerk to the Board of Comm' �} NORTH CAROLINA 4 �2 ORANGE COUNTY V s � I, , a Notary Public of the County and Stat that D� j 4 personally came before me this day and acknow e ged that s/he is Deputy/Clerk to the Board of Commissioners for Orange County, North Carolina and that by authority duly given and as the act of said County, the foregoing instrument was signed in its name by Earl McKee, the Chair Orange County Board of Commissioners, and attested by the Deputy/Clerk to said Board of Commissioners. Witness my hand and official stamp or seal,this the day of , 20&. .� N��ic North�Ma Notary Public Commission ExgM My commission expires: This document has been legally reviewed by: COMMUNITY HOME TRUST, INC l`Ge— President NORTH CAROLINA ORANGE COUNTY I, Donn L S . �� , Notary Public in and for the abov naxn d County and State, do hereby certify that o this day personally appeared before me wit whom I am personally acquainted, who, being by me duly sworn, says that he is of Community Home Trust, Inc, a North Carolina corporation, and that by authority duly given and as the act of the corporation, the foregoing instrument was signed by him on behalf of the corporation. Witness my hand and notarial seal, this the day of b V 20 A d6h�UCL Notary Publ' anry_Ucyd My commission expires: � � ' '� � U�biin h Caroena