14.1 Declaration Amendment. Amendments to the Declaration shall be made by an instrument in writing entitled "Amendment to Declaration" which sets forth the entire amendment. Except as otherwise specifically provided for in this Declaration, any proposed amendment must be approved by a majority of the Board prior to its adoption by the Owners. Amendments may be adopted at a meeting of the Owners if seventy-five percent (75%) of the Owners vote for such amendment, or without any meeting if all Owners have been duly notified and seventy-five percent (75%) of all the Owners consent in writing to such amendment. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any amendment to a provision of the Declaration establishing, providing for, governing or regulating the following shall require the consent of seventy-five percent (75%) of all the Owners and seventy-five percent (75%) of all the Mortgagees and the consent of the Declarant (during the Declarant Control Period): voting; assessments, assessment liens or subordination of such liens; reserves for maintenance, repair and replacements of Common Areas; insurance or bonds; use of Common Areas; responsibility for maintenance or repairs; expansion or construction of the Project or the addition, annexation or withdrawal of property to or from the Project; boundaries of Lots; converting of Lots into Common Areas or vice versa; leasing of Lots; provisions for the benefit of the Declarant; provisions for benefit of first Mortgagees, or holders, insures or guarantors of first Mortgages; the interests in Common Areas; or imposition of any right of first refusal or similar restrictions on the right of an Owner to sell, transfer or otherwise convey a Lot; provided, that a Mortgagee who fails to respond in writing within thirty (30) days of a written request to approve an amendment shall be deemed to have approved the request. In all events, the amendment when adopted shall bear the signature of the President of the Association and shall be attested by the Secretary, who shall state whether the amendment was properly adopted, and shall be acknowledged by them as officers of the Association. Amendments once properly adopted shall be effective upon recording in the appropriate governmental offices where real estate conveyances are recorded for the county in which the Project is located. It is specifically covenanted and understood that any amendment to this Declaration properly adopted will be completely effective to amend any or all of the covenants, conditions and restrictions contained herein that may be affected and any or all clauses of this Declaration unless otherwise specifically provided in the section being amended or the amendment itself.

 

14.2 Plat Map. Except as otherwise provided herein, to effect an amendment to the Declaration adopted as provided for in Section 14.1, the Plat Map may be amended by revised versions or revised portions thereof, provided that the revised version or revised portions reference the adopted amendment to this Declaration. Copies of any such proposed amendment to the Plat Map shall be made available for the examination of every Owner. Such amendment to the Plat Map shall be effective, once properly adopted, upon having received any governmental approval required by law and recordation in conjunction with the Declaration amendment in the appropriate governmental office where real estate conveyances are recorded for the county in which the Project is located. The declaration may not be amended to eliminate the responsibility to maintain the storm water detention ponds or similar facilities without the permission of the City of Renton.

 

14.3 Amendments to Conform to Construction. Declarant, upon Declarant's sole signature, and as an attorney-in-fact for all Lot Owners with an irrevocable power coupled with an interest, may at any time, until all Lots have been sold by Declarant, file an amendment to the Declaration and to the Plat Map to conform data depicted therein to improvements as actually constructed and to establish, vacate and relocate utility easements and access road easements.

 

14.4 Amendments to Conform to Lending Institution Guidelines. So long as Declarant continues to own one or more Lots, Declarant, upon Declarant's sole signature, and as an attorney-in-fact for all Lot Owners with an irrevocable power coupled with an interest, may at any time, until all Lots have been sold by Declarant, file such amendments to the Declaration and Plat Map as are necessary to meet the then requirements of Federal National Mortgage Association, Veterans Administration, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, or other agencies, institutions or lenders financing and/or title insuring the purchase of a Lot from the Declarant.

 

14.5 Article 16 Amendments. Declarant, upon Declarant's sole signature, and as an attorney-in-fact for all Lot Owners with an irrevocable power coupled with an interest, may at any time, until all Lots have been sold by Declarant, file such amendments to the Declaration and Plat Map as are necessary in the exercise of Declarant's powers under Article 16. Annexations provided for in Article 16 shall be approved and recorded as an amendment to this Declaration as provided in this Article 14.