LAKEFRONT HOMEOWNERS

Maintaining water quality of the lake is of utmost importance and the lakefront homeowner's responsibility towards this end is imperative. Therefore the lakefront homeowner must abide by the following rules and policies.

1. Liability Insurance: Appropriate liability coverage with Lake Mission Viejo Association named as co-insured must be obtained prior to dock installation on the Lake and must be approved by the lake manager.
   
   
2. Each homeowner must maintain a landscape runoff configuration to prevent contamination of the lake. This means that garden and turf areas cannot build up along the bulkhead that may allow passive runoff. Maintain the slope of your landscape toward the storm drains. Homeowners must also keep drains clear and flowing at all times.
   
   
3. Landscape growth overhanging into the lake must be trimmed back to expose the top of the bulkhead.
   
   
4. The lake association maintains an easement to the storm drainage swale (approximately 15 feet) and any landscape modification within this zone requires protection of the bulkhead wall and the divergent drainage configuration subject to LMVA approval. All storm runoff needs to be diverted from entering the lake. Trees must be planted no closer than five feet from the bulkhead.
   
   
5. Any construction within the 15 foot drainage easement area is subject to an LMVA architectural review and must not compromise the swale's drainage configuration
   
   
6. Pet waste products must be kept clear from docks, walkways, and yards close to the lake. No disposing of any waste into the lake.
   
   
7. Dogs are not allowed to swim in the lake.
   
   
8. Please control contaminants entering the lake from your property such as, fertilizers, weed control, soaps and detergents from cleaning boats or docks, cuttings or trimmings from garden blowers, sawdust from wood cutting, etc.
   
   
9. Release of any plant or animal into the lake or park is prohibited. This includes aquarium plants or animals as well as unwanted pets like ducks or rabbits, etc. Also, no emptying of aquariums, fish, turtles, carp or any other animal or plant into the lake.
   
   
10. Placement of aquatic garden plants into or surrounding the lake is prohibited.
    
    
11. The bulkhead is LMVA property and cannot be defaced or altered in any way. Any alteration of the lake bottom including placing of substrates, stepstones, etc., are prohibited without written approval by lake management.
    
    
12. No draining of spas or pools into the lake.
    
    
13. Please do not feed the fish or the waterfowl.
    
    
14. Inflatable trampolines and other similar inflatable floating devices are not allowed on the Lake. Any such devices are subject to impoundment without notice. The Lake is not responsible for damage to any device whcih has been impounded for being in violation of this section. No docks, piers, wharves, floats, or any other artificial protrusions shall be permitted in the waters of the Lake. Only homeowners of single-family, lakefront lots may be granted an easement, by Grantor, to construct one (1) dock anchored to the shoreline. Please consult with lake manager for further clarification.
    
    
15. Residents may not swim from lakefront homes any farther than 35 feet from the bulkhead of their own property, which is defined as the Servient Tenement Area and may not swim across adjacent property lines.
    
    
16. Please refer to the Lake Association CC&Rs or to the lake manager for other restrictions concerning your property.
    
    
17. Drafting water from the lake for any purpose is prohibited.
    
    
18. For maintenance service access please keep area around docks clear of water toys (e.g. paddle boards, rafts, tubes, floats, etc.).