Ridglea Country Club Estates
Restrictions, Reservations and Covenants
The land in Ridglea Country Club
Estates, an Addition situated in part in the City of
Section 1, USE
OF LAND. Tracts A1, A2 and B1 and B2 shall be used as a golf course. All
lots except those in Block 6 shall be used for private residence purposes only.
The portion of Block 6 within the city limits
No garage or outbuilding on any plat shall be used as a residence or living quarters except by servants engaged on the premises and except pending the construction of the residence, and then for a total not to exceed one year.
Section 2, APPROVAL OF PLANS. All plans for the erection of any plat shall be prepared by a licensed architect and if a designer is used, then the designer must be approved in advance by J. T. Luther, Jr. or Fritz E. Barton, or their designees, before the plats are drafted. No building fence, wall or other structure shall be commenced, erected or maintained, nor shall any addition thereto or change of alterations therein be made until plans and specifications, color schema, plot plan and grading plan therefore, shall have been submitted to and approved in writing either by J. T. Luther, Jr. or Fritz E. Barton, or their designees.. and a copy thereof as finally approved lodged with the dedicators. In passing upon such plans, specifications, and other requirements, they shall take into consideration the suitability of the proposed building or other structure and the materials of which it is to be built, to the site upon which it is proposed to erect same, and the harmony thereof with the surroundings and the effect of the building or other structure as planned, on the outlook from adjacent or neighboring property.
Section 3, MATERIAL. The exterior material of any residence shall be a minimum of 75% masonry or similar construction on the exterior wall surface.
No composition roofs shall be used on any residence and built up roof may be used on flat surface and roofs with a one and one-half inch pitch may have the built-up roofs.
No outbuildings shall exceed the residence to which it is appurtenant in height or number of stories, unless the written consent of J. T. Luther, Jr. or Fritz E. Barton, or their designees, has been first obtained. Every outbuilding except a greenhouse shall correspond in style and architecture to the residence to which it is appurtenant and shall be of the same materials, both walls and roof, as such residence.
Section 4, FRONTAGE. Every residence on any plot shall front or present a good frontage on the street or streets on which the lot or lots composing such plot are deemed to front, and there will be no garage opening facing on the street in which the house fronts.
Residence on corner lots hsall have a presentable frontage on all streets on which the particular lot fronts.
Section 5, SET-BACK OF RESIDENCE FROM STREET LINE. No residence or any part thereof shall be erected or maintained on any of said lots nearer to the adjoining street or streets than the building lines shown on the attached plat. However, covered or uncoverd, but no enclosed porches, balconies, portacochers, and terraces may extend beyond the building line toward the street or streets on which such plot fronts not more than twelve(12) feet. Bay or other windows, vestibules and stairway landings(other than full two-story windows, vestibules and stairway landings), cornices, spouting, chimneys, or other similar projections may extend not more than four(4) feet beyond the building line in the direction of any street adjoining the plot. And steps leading to residence may extend beyond such building line, provided such steps are not higher than the level of the first floor of the residence.
Section 6, FREE SPACE. No part of any residence shall be erected or maintained nearer then ten(10) feet to the side property line of the plot upon which it is erected, unless written consent or either J. T. Luther, Jr. or Fritz E. Barton, or their designees, is obtained, together with the consent of the adjacent property owner.
Section 7, SET-BACK OF OUTBUILDINGS FROM STREET. No outbuildings shall be erected or maintained on any of said lots nearer to the adjoining street or streets than the outbuilding limits shown on the attached plot. However, the dedicators reserve the right to change any outbuilding limit line established on any lot, but in no event shall the outbuilding limit line shown on the attached plat be changed so as to bring it more than ten(10) feet nearer any adjoining street than such line now is shown on such plat. And said outbuilding limit line shall not be moved nearer any adjoining street unless the owner or owners of the lot or lots in the same block which border on said street and which are contiguous to the lot upon which it is proposed to make such change, shall first give written consent thereto. The projection of cornices, spoutings, chimneys and purely ornamental projections over said building limit line shall not be construed as a violation of the provisions of this section.
Section 8, OUTBUILDING FREE SPACE REQUIRED. In fixing the dimensions of all outbuildings, including greenhouses, with reference to the width of the plot on which such buildings are located, the measurement of such plot width shall be taken along the rear property line thereof. Outbuildings other than greenhouses shall not extend sixty(60) feet in width, and if more than one such outbuilding is erected, the combined widths thereof shall not exceed sixty(60) percent of the width of the plot with the written consent of the dedicators. Greenhouses shall not exceed twenty(20) feet in width. No more than fifty(50%) of the width of any plot shall be occupied by such outbuildings, exclusive greenhouses, and if the greenhouse be included, that not more the sixty(60%) percent of such width shall be occupied by all outbuildings including greenhouses. However, the dedicators may permit occupancy of as much as seventy(70%) percent of any plot by all outbuildings, including greenhouses, by giving their written consent thereto. In the case of corner lots having an angle or angles in the outbuilding limit line, all outbuildings may be erected to such width and occupy such area as the space on the interior side of the outbuilding limit line allows.
Section 9, MINIMUM FLOOR SPACE REQUIREMENTS. (Refer to the recorded Plats and Dedications applicable to the Blocks and Lots thereunder.)
Section 10, EASEMENTS RESERVE. Above, upon and under the area marked “Easement” on the attached plat, the dedicators reserve the right to construct and maintain, or cause to be constructed and maintained, pipe lines, conduits, poles, wires, and any other equipment necessary to the performance of any public or quasi-public utility service and function, with the right of access thereto at any time for the purpose of further construction and maintenance and repair. No building or other permanent structure shall be erected or maintained on any part of any area marked “Easement” , but the owners of the lots may erect and maintain a fence, wall or hedge along the property line with such easements, subject to the provisions of Section 11, hereof, and subject at all times to the prior right to use such area for utility and quasi-utility purposes.
All right of every kind to transport persons and property by air over the premises shown on said plat are reserved in the dedicators for the benefit of the owners of the lots shown on said plat.
Section 11, SIGN, BILLBOARDS AND MISCELLANEOUS STRUCTURES. The construction or maintenance of billboards, posterboards, or advertising structures of any kind on any part of any lot is prohibited, except that signs not exceeding five(5) square feet I size advertising property shown on said plat for sale or rental permitted. Amended to permit political signs in accordance with Texas State Law. See the following for compliance information: Political Signs
No fence, wall, or hedge, nor any pergola or other detached structure for ornamental purposes, shall be erected, grown, or maintained on any part of any lot on the front or exterior side of the building line as shown on said plat.
No radio aerial wires shall be maintained over any part of any lot not occupied by a structure, nor more than fifteen(15) feet above the roof of any structure. No provisions shall be made in any lot for the raising of poultry or the housing of cows, horses or other livestock.
No trailers, campers or boats shall be parked in the open on any lot.
No tank for the storage of oil or other fluid may be maintained on any lot above the surface thereof. On any lot abutting on the golf course no wall or fence shall be erected on the boundary line of the golf course unless said wall is of the same construction and material of the house and it must conform to the architecture of the house. No fences or chainlink or wood type construction will be utilized on any lots abutting on the golf course. Any fence erected within twenty(20) feet of the rear boundary of the lots abutting on the golf course must be approved in writing by the developers unless said fence or wall is constructed of the same material and architecture of the house.
The dedicators reserve the right to waive any of the prohibitions set forth in this section as to any lot or lots shown on the attached plat, such swiver to bend the dedicators, their successors, and all owners of lots shown on said plat. Waiver in the manner above set forth as to any particular lot or lots shall not release the prohibitions in this section as to any other lot.
Section 12, DURATION.Any of the restrictions and covenants herein set forth shall continue and be binding upon the dedicators and upon their successors and assigns for a period of twenty-five(25) years from the date this instrument is filed for record in the office of the County Clerk of Tarrant County, Texas, and shall automatically be extended thereafter for successive periods of fifteen(15) years; provided however, that the owners of the legal title to the lots having more than fifty(50%) percent of the front footage of the lots shown on this plat may release all of the lots hereby restricted from any one or more of said restrictions and covenants and may release any lot shown on said plat from restrictions or covenants created by deed from the dedicators at the end of the first twenty-five(25) year period or at the end of any successive fifteen(15) year period thereafter by executing and acknowledging any appropriate agreement or agreements in writing for such purpose and filling the same for record in the manner then provided for the recording of land instrument at least five(5) years prior to the expiration of the first twenty-five(25) year period, or at least five(5) years before the expiration of any fifteen(15) year period thereafter.
Section 13, RIGHT TO ENFORCE. The restrictions herein set forth shall run with the land and bind the dedicators, their successor, and assign, and all parties claiming by, through, and under them shall be taken to hold, agree, and covenant with the dedicators and the successors in title, and with each of them, to conform to and observe all restrictions and covenants as to the use of said lots and the construction of improvements thereon, but no restrictions or covenants herein set forth shall be personally binding on any corporation, person or persons, except in respect to breaches committed during its, his or their seizing of or title to said land, and the owner or owners of any of the above land shall have the righ to sue for and obtain an injunction prohibitive or mandatory, to prevent the breach or to enforce the observance of the restrictions and covenants above set forth in addition to the ordinary legal action for damages, and failure of the dedicators or owners of any other lot or lots shown on this plat to enforce any of the restrictions or covenants herein set forth at the time of its violation shall in no event be deemed to be a waiver of the right to do so an any time hereafter.
Section 14, DEDICATORS’ RIGHT TO ASSIGN. The dedicators may assign or convey by appropriate instrument to any person or corporation any of all of the rights, reservations, easements and privileges herein reserved by it and upon such assignment of conveyance being made, their assign or grantees, at their option, may exercise, transfer or assign such rights, reservations, easements and privileges, or any one or more of them at any time or times, in the same way and manner as though directly reserved by them or it in this instrument.