Opinion ID: 1905125
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Heading: The 1968 Declaration

Text: In 1968, SDN and various trustees representing interests of the Rogers executed and filed a Declaration of Easements for Purposes of Ingress and Egress for Water and Sanitary Sewer (hereinafter 1968 Declaration), for the common use of the owners, lessees and occupants of all improvements constructed or to be constructed on ... Parcel `A': WHEREAS, the aforesaid Parcel A has been subdivided into various parcels on which apartment projects have been built, and it is contemplated that said parcel may be further subdivided in the future for the construction of additional apartment projects and it is desired to hereby establish easements of rights of way for ingress and egress for owners, lessees and occupants of all of the improvements erected on said Parcel A, which rights of way are to be used in common and for the benefit of all of the various owners, lessees and occupants of said land and the improvements thereon erected, their tenants, servants, visitors, licensees and successors in title; and WHEREAS, it is also considered essential to create easements for the benefit of the owners of the entire Parcel A as aforesesaid, their successors and assigns, for the installation and maintenance of necessary water and sanitary sewer mains to serve the apartments intended to be constructed on said property. The 1968 Declaration established a roadway easement in two parts. Part I began at the end of the Mathias Road easement, established by the 1964 Declaration, and extended Mathias Road to a point near the southeastern corner of the Rogers' property: NOW, THEREFORE, [SDN], with the consent of [the trustees], does hereby establish and create a perpetual easement and right of way for ingress and egress for pedestrian and vehicular traffic over the following described property for the common use of the owners, lessees and occupants of all improvements constructed or to be constructed on the aforesaid Parcel A: Being an easement and right of way twenty (20) feet wide, for ingress and egress for pedestrian and vehicular traffic, through part of Parcel A per plat of subdivision entitled Parcel A, Landover Gardens ... the centerline of said easement and right of way being more particularly described, as follows, in two parts: Part I: Beginning ... at the end of... Part A of the centerline of the twenty (20) foot wide ingress and egress easement and right of way previously established and created per [1964 Declaration] and agreement heretofore made by and between SDN Landover Corp., et al.... and running thence for said centerline ... (1) 85.16 feet along the arc of a curve deflecting to the right, having a radius of 665.19 feet and a chord bearing and length of North 33° 33' 14 East 85.10 feet, to a point of tangency; thence (2) North 37° 13' 18 East 259.82 feet to the end of said centerline Part II began at the end of this easement, and traveled 35 feet in a path perpendicular to Mathias Road near the Rogers property: Part II: Beginning for the same 15.00 feet from the end of the second line of Part I, hereinabove, and running thence for said centerline (1) North 52° 46' 42 West 35.00 feet, to the end of said centerline on the southeast line of [the Rogers Property]. After Mathias, Loop and Stub Roads were constructed in accordance with their metes and bounds descriptions, a gap existed between the easements and the Rogers parcel, and in particular, between Mathias Road and the Rogers' driveway. Anne Rogers sued SDN to enforce her roadway easement to Landover Road, and in 1969, SDN was ordered by a judge of the Circuit Court for Prince George's County to permit Rogers to construct a roadway across its parcel in order to connect the Rogers parcel with Mathias Road, which, in turn, provided access to Landover Road: The Court having found that defendant has not provided a permanent roadway not less than twenty-two (22) feet as set forth in the Deed of September 26, 1963... and more than five years having elapsed from the date thereof, it is by the Court ordered that the plaintiff has the right to construct a roadway not more than thirty (30) feet wide across the land of the defendant to connect through the existing private roadways to Landover Road, which road shall be constructed from the existing 60-foot street at a distance of 388.77 feet, along the center line with a bearing North 37 degrees, 13 minutes, 18 seconds East. In addition thereto the plaintiff shall be permitted to construct two 22-foot driveways or one 44-foot driveway from the aforesaid 30-foot roadway to her property and shall be permitted to install the necessary drainage from her property under the said 30-foot roadway to adequately carry off the water from her property for its present use. The aforesaid right shall be subject to the defendant's future right to construct or continue the existing 60-foot roadway along and over the right-of-way described for this roadway and driveways, provided that when the defendant, their successors or assigns, shall make such improvements they shall tie the aforesaid driveways in to the said improved street. Anne Rogers constructed a 388.77 foot road, connecting her driveway to Mathias Road and thereby with access to Landover Road. With respect to the utility easements, the Rogers have never connected into the utility systems constructed by SDN and Landover Gardens.