A. The Parks and Recreation Department shall develop covenants and property restrictions which assure the preservation of conservation futures properties. Prior to executing any agreement to release Conservation Futures funding, the terms and conditions of all such covenants and property restrictions must be reviewed and approved by the County for consistency and compliance with laws governing Conservation Futures funding and to ensure that additional restrictions and requirements proposed in Sponsor's application, and any additional conditions to funding directed by Council in its funding authorization, are incorporated.

B. The covenants shall run with the land, in perpetuity, and in fulfillment of the requirements necessary to protect, preserve, maintain, improve, restore, limit the future use of, or otherwise conserve wildlife habitat areas, farm, agricultural, and timber lands for the public use and enjoyment.

C. The covenants and property restrictions shall be recorded on the title of all conservation futures properties purchased with conservation futures funds pursuant to the conservation futures grant application and adopted Council Resolution.

D. The covenants and property restrictions shall specify that any improvements to a conservation futures property shall be limited to those which are passive in nature, or related to agriculture or forestry; provided, that if the Council has approved active recreational uses for a particular conservation futures property or portion thereof, the covenants and property restrictions shall specify the active recreational uses allowed. All uses and improvements to conservation futures properties must meet the requirements and intent of RCW 84.34.200 through 84.34.220.

E. Conservation Futures Properties shall be restricted from retaining rights to subdivide or develop the land for residential, commercial, or industrial uses. Working farms, forests, and active recreation may have development only as is compatible with protection of conservation values and necessary to the function of the underlying use.

F. Lease-back agreements are restricted to a maximum of 18 months.