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ORDINANCE NO. 1014 CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW COUNTY OF RAMSEY STATE OF MINNESOTA AN ORDINANCE ADDING A NEW CHAPTER 38 TO TITLE III OF THE MOUNDS VIEW CITY CODE REGARDING DISCRIMINATORY COVENANTS THE CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW ORDAINS: SECTION 1. The City Council of the City of Mounds View hereby amends Title III by adding a new chapter as follows: Chapter 38: Discriminatory Covenants 38.001 Findings 38.002 Definitions 38.003 Discharge of Discriminatory Covenants 38.004 Discriminatory Covenants Prohibited 38.999 Penalty § 38.001 Findings. (A) Discriminatory covenants were tools used by real estate developers to prevent persons of color and non-Christian individuals from buying or occupying property in certain areas, and they were common throughout the United States from the early 1900s to the 1960s; and (B) The purpose of discriminatory covenants was to racially and religiously homogenize communities by excluding persons of color and non-Christian individuals from Mounds View. These tools segregated the metro area and built a hidden system of apartheid; and (C) In 2016, the University of Minnesota founded Mapping Prejudice to expose the racist practices that shaped the landscape of the metro area. Mapping Prejudice researched restrictive covenants in Ramsey County and created the first -ever comprehensive map of racial covenants in an American city. As of February 2024, the project mapped 5458 covenants in Ramsey County, including 517 covenants in Mounds View; and (D) An example of a covenant in Mounds View declared that "No person or persons other than of the Caucasian race shall be permitted to occupy said premises or any part thereof'; and (E) The discriminatory covenants exist in Mounds View throughout the city; and (F) Restrictive covenants are no longer enforceable. Legal efforts to eliminate Discriminatory Covenants include Shelley v. Kraemer, 334 U.S. 1 (1948), in which the United States Supreme Court prohibited courts from enforcing Discriminatory Covenants and the Minnesota legislature in 1953 enacted statutes that prohibited new covenants, but existing covenants were still legal in Minnesota until 1962; and (G) As a result of these judicial and legislative actions, today, Minnesota law and federal law prohibit discrimination in the sale or lease of housing based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, disability, sexual orientation, or familial status and those state and federal prohibitions extend to the refusal to sell or to circulate, post or cause to be printed, circulated, or posted, any limitation, specification, or MU210\5\960017.v4