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The Shoreline City Council has called for a public hearing at its March 30 meeting, as residents and a local real estate agent want to remove a pair of decades-old restrictive covenants from a set of North City properties less than a mile from the city’s light rail corridor.
Thirty properties — including one parcel owned by the city — are affected by the covenants, which are legal restrictions imposed by the original land-owner and tied to a property’s title.
One of the covenants that’ll be addressed at the hearing says that property owners can only build single-family homes on their lot. The other is racially restrictive, a kind of discriminatory, unlawful and unenforceable clause that was meant to ensure that only white people could live on the property…