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County staff present restrictive‑covenant mapping and plan June 17 "fill‑and‑file" event

3220630 · April 8, 2025
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Dane County planners briefed the Zoning and Land Regulation Committee on a project mapping historic restrictive covenants across roughly 4,000 parcels and described a planned June 17 public "fill‑and‑file" event to allow residents to record a form identifying discriminatory covenants in the land record.

Senior planner Bridget Van Bellegham updated the committee on the county’s Prejudice in Places project, which has identified roughly 4,000 parcels with restrictive covenants or historic plat language that may include racially restrictive wording. The project team has processed and mapped those records and prepared a white paper summarizing methods and preliminary findings.

Van Bellegham said the greatest concentrations of affected parcels are in Madison (especially the west side), Shorewood Hills,…

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