The MNA Original Covenant
The Morrisdale Estates Neighborhood Association was founded with the spririt and ideology of making Morrisdale Estates a premier place to live, where everyone could be proud of the community. With that in mind, an initial neighborhood covenant was drafted by the development company. The covenant had a 25-year life, and was not renewed after its expiration, however, in the spirit of keeping the community a place we can all be proud of, the original covenant has been posted here for all to read. It is important to note that the original covenant is not enforceable under the current association due to its expiration.
THE STATE OF TEXAS )
) KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
COUNTY OF TARRANT )
THAT MORRISDALE DEVELPMENT CORPORATION, being the owner of a tract of land in the City of Euless, Tarrant County, Texas, out of the J. W. Haynes Survey, Abstract No. 768, and out of the H Hust Survey, Abstract No. 657, situated about 11-1/2 miles North 70 degrees East from the Court House in Tarrant County, Texas, described by metes and bounds as follows:
BEGINNING at a point in the West line of said of said J. W. Haynes
Survey 1254.1 feet West and 1276.9 feet Nort. of the S.E. corner of said J.W. Haynes Survey;
THENCE North 1 deg. 25 min. East along the West line of said Survey 1371.5 feet to a point for corner;
THENCE South 71 deg. 17 min. East 474.3 feet to a point for corner;
THENCE North 19 deg. 26 min. East 176.4 feet to a point for corner;
THENCE North 19 deg. 46 min. East 176.9 feet to a point in the center of Pipe Line Road for corner;
THENCE along the center of said Pipe Line Road South 62 deg. 02 min. East 305.2 feet;
THENCE South 63 deg. 01 min. East 100 feet;
THENCE South 65 deg. 45 min. East 100 feet;
THENCE South 69 deg. 50 min. East 100 feet;
THENCE leaving road South 11 deg. 22 min. East 500 feet;
THENCE South 5 deg. 12 min. East 700 feet;
THENCE South 15 deg. 57 in. East 81.5 feet to a point for corner, in the North line of a proposed street (Woodvine Drive);
THENCE Westerly along a curve, with a radius of 4894.4 feet, 9F4.9 feet to a point for corner;
THENCE North 84 deg. 35 min. West 148 feet to a point for corner;
THENCE North 88 deg. 35 min. West 50 feet to a point for corner;
THENCE South 1 deg. 25 min. West 45 feet to a point for corner;
THENCE North 88 deg. 35 min. West 150 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING,
does hereby adopt the attached map and plat as its plan for subdividing same to be know as:
"MORRISDALE ADDITION"
to the City of Euless, Tarrant County, Texas, and does hereby dedicate to the use of the public the streets and easements as show thereon.
In order to provide for a uniform building program upon said property and to insure the present and future owners that said subdivision will be improved into a desirable residential section, the undersigned hereby impresses said property with the following restrictive covenants, which shall run with the land and shall be binding on all parties and all persons claiming under it 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 for successive period of ten (10) years unless by agreement of the majority of the then owners [ILLEGIBLE TEXT].
No structure shall be erected or maintained on any lot except one private dwelling house designed for occupancy by a single family only, and such outbuildings and accessory structures as are customarily pertinent to such a dwelling house. No garage or outbuilding on any lot shall be used as a dwelling or living quarters, except by domestic servants engaged on the premises.
No noxious or offensive activity shall be carried on in any structure or upon any lot, nor shall anything be done thereo.. which may be or become an annoyance or nuisance to the neighborhood. No lot or building shall be used for any business purposes.
The construction, erection or maintenance of bill boards, posterboards or advertising structures of any kind on any part of any lot is prohibited, except signs under 5 square feet pertaining to the sale, rental or lease of the property shall be permitted, and except that signs of a larger size advertising the subdivision may be erected by the undersigned.
Building lines, as shown on the attached map and plat, shall be observed, and no building shall be located nearer to the front lot line or nearer to the side lot line than the building set-back line shown on the attached map and plat. For the purposes of this covenant, eaves, steps and open porches shall not be considered as part of the building.
No purchaser shall re-subdivide any such residential lot.
DWELLING: No residence shall be constructed upon any lot in which the total square footage of the dwelling area, exclusive of garages porches and outbuildings, is less than twenty-four hundred (2400) square feet.
CONSTRUCTION: Every dwelling shall be at least eighty per cent (80%) brick or stone, or other material approved by the dedicator. Every dwelling shall have a roof of wood shingle or better material, it being understood no composition roofs will be permitted on any dwelling.
GARAGES: No garage, or other structure designed or intended to be used for the storage or housing of automobiles or other vehicles, shall be constructed in such way as that the doors or openings thereof will face toward the street on which said lot fronts.
PARKING: No person owning, using or occupying any lot shall himself, or through others, permit the habitual parking of commercial type vehicles overnight or for substantial portions of the day in the street in front of the lot such person owns, uses or occupies.
No fence or wall shall be erected, placed or altered on any lot nearer to the street than the main building set-back line.
In the event any owner or occupant of a lot shall violate or attempt to violate any of the restrictions and covenants set forth herein, it shall be lawful for the person or persons owning any of the lots in the addition, as shown by the attached plat, to prosecute any proceedings at law or in equity against the person or persons violating or attempting to violate any such restrictions and covenants, and to either prevent such violations or recover damages on account thereof. Invalidation of any one or more of such covenants and restrictions shall in nowise affect the others, which shall remain in full force and effect.
Dedicator reserves a perpetual easement in, on and under the lots of the width and extent as shown on the attached map and plat, for the purpose of laying, placing and maintaining utilities, with the right to go upon such lots and streets to place, erect, repair, maintain and remove utility installations without interference; and no building shall be erected over the part of a lot where such easement is shown to be reserved.
Dedicator reserves the right to sell, transfer and assign all rights, easements, reservations and privileges herein provided.
MORRISDALE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
BY: Paul Huffhines, President
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF TARRANT
BEFORE ME, the undersigned, a Notary Public in and for said County and Sate, on this day personally appeared PAUL HUFFHINES, President of MORRISDALE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, known to me to be the person and officer whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that the same was [ILLEGIBLE TEXT] that he executed the same as the act of such corporation for the purposes and consideration therein expressed, and in the capacity therein stated.
GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND SEAL OF OFFICE this the 5 day of October, 1961.
[NOTARY PUBLIC NAME ILLEGIBLE]
Notary Public, Tarrant County, Texas
Filed for Record OCT 4 1961 at 2:46 PM
And Recorded OCT 5 1961 at 10:25 AM
Instrument No 65193
MELVIN "MEL" FAULK, County Clerk.
Tarrant County, Texas
By [NAME ILLEGIBLE] Deputy