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