Your commitment to your community:
There are legally restrictive covenants applicable to all lots in
Lake Barcroft.
The purpose of these restrictions is to preserve the natural assets
and enhance the aesthetic and economic value of the community by
controlling the use of the lots.
The rules are binding on all lot owners and are enforced by Lake
Barcroft Association, Inc.
The following restrictive covenants appear in the deed for each Lake
Barcroft property:
1. The land hereby conveyed shall be used only for the purposes of a
private, single family residence and appropriate uses accessory
thereto. No building shall be erected thereon excepted a single
family, private dwelling house and garage appurtenant thereto, and no
such garage may be erected except simultaneously with or subsequent
to erection of the residence. No building, fence, or other structure
shall be erected or altered unless the plans, specifications,
including color scheme, and plot plan therefor, are submitted to and
formally approved in writing by the Grantor, its successors or
assigns, and copy such plans, specifications, and plot plan so
approved shall be permanently filed with the grantor, its successors
or assigns, before any work is begun. No outside toilet facilities
shall be constructed or maintained on any lot. No sign of any
description may be erected or placed on any portion of the land
without the express written approval of Grantor, its successors or
assigns. No tent, trailer, or out building shall ever be erected or
maintained on the trace, and no garage or basement shall at any time
be used as a temporary or permanent residence.
2. No business or occupation of any kind, (other than home practice
of physician who has applied for and obtained written approval from
Grantor, which permission shall be revocable at the pleasure of the
Grantor, Grantor's successors or assigns) may at any time be carried
on or permitted upon the said land, except in those areas which may
be designated for such purposes on the subdivision Plat referred to
herein, filed among the Land Records of Fairfax County.
3. No animals, except household pets, shall be kept or maintained on
any part of said property. The term "household pets," as herein used
shall include only dogs, cats, and caged birds kept within the
residence. No pigeons or other fowl and no kenneled or caged animals
of any kind shall be permitted.
4. The Grantor reserves to itself, its successors, licensees, and
assigns, an easement or right-of-way over a strip of ground 10 feet
in width along the side outlines and 20 feet in width along the rear
outlines of the lot or lots hereby conveyed, for the purposes of
installation or maintenance of public utilities, including but not
limited to gas, water, electricity, telephone, and sewerage and any
appurtenance to the supply lines therefore, including guy wires,
transformers, meters, etc., by overhead transmission lines or
underground installation, including the right to remove and/or trim
trees, shrubs, or plants, or if any utility is now installed or
exists it shall be subject to easement as existing. This reservation
is for purpose of providing for the practical installation of such
utilities as and when any public authority or utility company may
serve said lots. The Grantor reserves to itself, its successors and
assigns, the roads and ways shown on the Plat referred to herein and
reserves the right, without compensation to the Grantee or anyone
claiming through or under them, at any time, to dedicate all roads or
ways laid out or shown upon Plat referred to herein public use and/or
to convey the same to the State or County or any agency or
instrumentality thereof.
5. All of the residential lots shown upon the sub-division Plat
hereinbefore referred to, shall be subject to an annual charge of
Sixty Dollars ($60.00) per lot, payable on the first day of January
of each year hereafter which shall be paid to Grantor, which shall be
collection agent for a maintenance corporation to be designated by
Grantor, which maintenance corporation shall be the owner of said
charge, for the use and maintenance of the beaches of Lake Barcroft
which privileges for use are not assignable except by written
approval of the Grantor, or its successors, or assigns. It is
expressly agreed that said charge shall constitute a lien or
encumbrance on the land with respect to which said charge is made,
and by virtue of title to any of the land included in said tract, the
owner or owners from the time of acquiring title thereto, shall be
held to have covenanted and agreed to pay Grantors, its or their
successors or assigns, aforesaid all charges provided for in this
paragraph. This annual charge of $60.00 shall be subject and inferior
to any Deed of Trust hereafter recorded securing a first lien on said
property.
The maintenance corporation to be designated by the Grantor shall
maintain the beaches in its own discretion, or as it shall by
contract with the Grantor herein. Grantee shall have no rights, to
dictate or require maintenance of such beaches or have any rights
herein other than the reasonable use thereof in accordance with the
rules and regulations of such maintenance corporation. Grantee,
Grantee's heirs and assigns, covenant to use said beaches only in
accordance with the rules and regulations which may from time to time
be promulgated with reference thereto, and vests Grantor or the
maintenance corporation to be designated by Grantor, its or their
successors or assigns, with the power to deprive any persons,
including Grantee, members of Grantee's family, Grantee's heirs and
assigns, of the use of such beaches, temporarily or permanently, for
infraction of such rules and regulations, without impairing the
aforesaid obligation to pay such charges, or the lien therefor.
6. If this lot or lots of ground borders on Lake Barcroft the lot or
lots of ground conveyed shall be only such lands as are included
within the description by metes and bounds as shown on the plan
heretofore referred to as described by lot number to be limited by
the lot or lots as shown on the plan heretofore referred and shall
not include the land and bed of the lake or any part thereof or the
waters above such land and bed.
7. Failure to enforce any restriction, condition, covenant or
agreement herein contained, shall in no event be deemed a waiver of a
right to do so thereafter, as to the same breach or as to one
occurring prior or subsequent thereto.