HM Land Registry’s Restrictive Covenants data contains entries made in the Title Register that record binding conditions that determine what an owner can, or cannot do, with their land or property under certain circumstances. They can cover a range of issues, but the most common examples tend to include preventing owners from making alterations to a property, preventing buildings or other structures from being built on a section of land and preventing trades or businesses from operating on the land. Inclusion in the dataset confirms that a restrictive covenant is recorded against that land or property

Interest Over Land - Restrictive Covenants Restricted to Government access only, this dataset contains information about Restrictive Covenant notifications registered on the Certificate of title. The intention of this layer will be to act as an indicator as to where an identified restrictive covenant document or similar has been found within Landgate's title register - NLR, that may or may not have been spatially captured. This data has been spatially enabled with the associated cadastre. These layers will be restricted and only available to applicable government agencies. This product will be for information purposes only and is not guaranteed. The information should not be relied upon without further verification from the original documents. Where the information is being used for legal purposes then the original documents must be searched for all legal requirements.

Restrictive Covenants (RC) are language in the original document that contains an unlawful restriction based on age, race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, ancestry, familial status, source of income, disability, veteran or military status, or genetic information. They became common after 1926 when the U.S. Supreme Court validated their use. The restrictions were an enforceable contract and an owner who violated them risked forfeiting the property. In 1968, Congress passed the Housing Rights Act, finally outlawing discrimination based on race or ethnicity in the sale or rental of housing.

This dataset shows Marin County covenants with restrictive language, their recording date, the date restrictive language has been discovered and covenant modification status.

Properties with Restrictive Covenants

This data set provides a status of the Los Angeles County Restrictive Covenant Modification (RCM) project per Assembly Bill 1466 (AB 1466). This effort aims to remove any discriminatory or restrictive covenant language from historical public records by way of redacting and re-recording. It is our goal to review all documents recorded from years 1850s to the present to identify and redact any discriminatory language. We started this project in June,2024 and will review all document types starting with the most recent documents that are already imaged and working backwards.

Michigan’s environmental remediation program authorizes EGLE to set cleanup standards by considering how the contaminated land will be used in the future. Michigan’s cleanup standards are risk-based and reflect the potential for human health or ecological risks from exposure to hazardous or regulated substances at contaminated sites. A person may use land use or resource use restrictions, as outlined in Part 201 and Part 213, to manage risk by reducing or restricting exposure to environmental contamination left in-place at a property.Land or Resource Use Restrictions may be in various forms including Restrictive Covenant, Notice of Aesthetic Impact, Notice of Corrective Action, Local Public Highway Institutional Control, Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) Environmental License Agreement, Local Ordinance, or an Alternative Institutional Control.This dataset shows locations of Land or Resource Use Restrictions that have been used to aid in the closure of a site of environmental contamination. The locations provided are not all-inclusive as they only represent those restrictions that have been sent to EGLE. This polygon dataset must be used along with the available point dataset Land or Resource Use Restrictions (Points) to show all the EGLE-mapped restrictions. Restrictions having proper legal descriptions and/or surveyed restriction area are represented with a polygon, while those having incomplete area and/or location details are represented by a point feature. The data is refreshed from daily from EGLE’s spatial database engine.Restrictions are mapped relative to existing GIS datasets including survey sections and aerial imagery and therefore have inherent inaccuracies. Locations provide a general representation but should not be relied upon for site-specific planning or decision making.The dataset’s field names are described below.

Field Name

Description

OBJECTID

Unique identifier for the GIS

Acres

Area of the restriction (acres)

SquareMiles

Area of the restriction (square miles)

KermitID

Unique identifier used to link to a scan of the restriction

RestrictionType

Numeric Code for the type of restriction

1 = Restrictive Covenant
  (RC)
2 = Notice of Corrective
  Action (NCA)
3 = Notice of Aesthetic
  Impairment (NAI)
4 = Ordinance
5 = Notice of Approved
  Environmental Remediation (NAER)
6 = Notice of Environmental Remediation (NER)
7 = Rescission of a Notice
  of Approved Environmental Remediation
8 (Not used)9 = Michigan Department of Transportation, Environmental License Agreement (MDOT)
0 = Other Institutional
  Control. This includes State Law/Local Health Code (SLHC), Public
  Highway Institutional Control (PHIC), Notice of Contamination (NOC),

RestrictionStatus

Status of the restriction

2 = Filed, Effective,
  Issued, or Recorded

FacilityName

Name of the Part 213 site or Part 201 facility

Address

Physical street address for the site or facility

City

City in which the site or facility is located

ZipCode

Zip code for the site or facility

EgleReferenceNumber

Unique reference number assigned by EGLE to the Land and Resource Use Restriction

Shape

GIS geometry type

Shape.STArea()

Area (square meters)

Shape.STLength()

Perimeter length (meters)

CreatedUser

Username of person who created the feature

CreatedDate

Date of feature creation

LastEditedUser

Username of the person who last edited the feature

LastEditedDate

Date the feature was last updated

LandUseRestrictionType

Text descriptor for the type of restriction

MgEntityCd

Lead EGLE division managing the site when restriction was imposed

ProgramType

Pertinent part of the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act

DeedDate

Date of effectiveness and/or recording with the Register of Deeds

LocationId

Unique identifier for the site within RRD’s RIDE database

For questions about this data, please reach out to EGLE-Maps@Michigan.gov.

Kingman Park is a neighborhood in northeast Washington developed in the years between World Wars I & II, during the height of segregation when black Washingtonians struggled to find decent housing. African Americans were largely shut out of new housing developments in and around the city by racially restrictive covenants.

Michigan’s environmental remediation program authorizes EGLE to set cleanup standards by considering how the contaminated land will be used in the future. Michigan’s cleanup standards are risk-based and reflect the potential for human health or ecological risks from exposure to hazardous or regulated substances at contaminated sites. A person may use land use or resource use restrictions, as outlined in Part 201 and Part 213, to manage risk by reducing or restricting exposure to environmental contamination left in-place at a property.

Land or Resource Use Restrictions may be in various forms including Restrictive Covenant, Notice of Aesthetic Impact, Notice of Corrective Action, Local Public Highway Institutional Control, Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) Environmental License Agreement, Local Ordinance, or an Alternative Institutional Control.

This dataset shows locations of Land or Resource Use Restrictions that have been used to aid in the closure of a site of environmental contamination. The locations provided are not all-inclusive as they only represent those restrictions that have been sent to EGLE. This point dataset must be used along with the available polygon dataset Land or Resource Use Restrictions (Polygons) to show all the EGLE-mapped restrictions. Restrictions having proper legal descriptions and/or surveyed restriction area are represented with a polygon, while those having incomplete area and/or location details are represented by a point feature. The data is refreshed daily from EGLE’s spatial database engine.

Restrictions are mapped relative to existing GIS datasets including survey sections and aerial imagery and therefore have inherent inaccuracies. Locations provide a general representation but should not be relied upon for site-specific planning or decision making.The dataset’s field names are described below.

Field Name

Description

OBJECTID

Unique identifier for the GIS

Acres

Area of the restriction (acres)

SquareMiles

Area of the restriction (square miles)

KermitID

Unique identifier used to link to a scan of the restriction

RestrictionType

Numeric Code for the type of restriction

1 = Restrictive Covenant (RC)
2 = Notice of Corrective
  Action (NCA)
3 = Notice of Aesthetic
  Impairment (NAI)
4 = Ordinance
5 = Notice of Approved
  Environmental Remediation (NAER)
6 = Notice of Environmental Remediation (NER)
7 = Rescission of a Notice
  of Approved Environmental Remediation
8 (Not used)9 = Michigan Department of Transportation, Environmental License Agreement (MDOT)
0 = Other Institutional
  Control. This includes State Law/Local Health Code (SLHC), Public
  Highway Institutional Control (PHIC), Notice of Contamination (NOC),

RestrictionStatus

Status of the restriction

2 = Filed, Effective,
  Issued, or Recorded

FacilityName

Name of the Part 213 site or Part 201 facility

Address

Physical street address for the site or facility

City

City in which the site or facility is located

ZipCode

Zip code for the site or facility

EgleReferenceNumber

Unique reference number assigned by EGLE to the Land and Resource Use Restriction

Shape

GIS geometry type

CreatedUser

Username of person who created the feature

CreatedDate

Date of feature creation

LastEditedUser

Username of the person who last edited the feature

LastEditedDate

Date the feature was last updated

LandUseRestrictionType

Text descriptor for the type of restriction

MgEntityCd

Lead EGLE division managing the site when restriction was imposed

ProgramType

Pertinent part of the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act

DeedDate

Date of effectiveness and/or recording with the Register of Deeds

LocationId

Unique identifier for the site within RRD’s RIDE database

For questions about this data, please reach out to EGLE-Maps@Michigan.gov.

Petition subject: Racial discrimination Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455140 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Massachusetts Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Maurice E. Frye Jr., Boston; committee on government regulations Selected signatures:Elliot L. RichardsonMartin A. LinskyMaurice E. Frye Jr. Actions taken on dates: 1969-01-01,1969-01-01 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 1, 1969 and referred to the committee on government regulations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 1, 1969 and concurred Total signatures: 3 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 3 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: to invalidate restrictive covenants and conditions in agreements relative to real estate which discriminate against individuals because of race, color, religion or national origin, includes addresses, towns next to names including Boston, Brookline Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1969, c.523, passed July 16, 1969 Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.

This dataset was developed to provide the spatial component of recorded Institutional Controls (ICs) for managed facilities of the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM). IDEM Office of Land Quality uses a system of risk-based closure to address releases of hazardous substances or petroleum. When contamination remains on site, a legal or administrative measure called an Institutional Control (IC) may be needed. An IC protects human health and the environment by restricting property activity, use, or access to minimize exposure to contamination.Institutional Control (IC) polygons were created by Coordinate Geometry (COGO) from recorded Environmental Restrictive Covenants (ERCs) and other Institutional Controls (ICs) mandated by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM). Also included is information such as the site address, county, city, IDEM cleanup program overseeing the project, and the types of land use restrictions applicable for the site and a link to view the actual IC document using IDEM’s Virtual File Cabinet.

INSTITUTIONAL_CONTROLS_IDEM_IN is a polygon shapefile that contains Institutional Control (IC) site locations in Indiana, provided by personnel of Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Office of Land Quality (IDEM, OLQ) as of March 17, 2009 and subsequently updated on June 4, 2009, August 12, 2009, October 20, 2009, November 18, 2009, December 16, 2009, April 16, 2010, December 12, 2011, February 20, 2012, April 10, 2012, January 9, 2013, April 5, 2013, June 5, 2013, August 7, 2013, December 5, 2013, May 13, 2014, September 16, 2014, and February 25, 2015. The data set provided by IDEM was in an ESRI shapefile format and was named "OLQ_INSTITUTIONAL_CONTROLS_IN.SHP." INSTITUTIONAL_CONTROLS_IDEM_IN.SHP is attributed with facility names, identification numbers, restriction descriptions, and a list of chemical contaminants. The following is excerpted from the metadata provided by IDEM, OLQ for the source shapefile named "OLQ_INSTITUTIONAL_CONTROLS_IN.SHP": "Institutional Control (IC) polygons were created by Coordinate Geometry (COGO) from recorded Environmental Restrictive Covenants (ERCs) and other Institutional Controls (ICs) mandated by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management."

Use this to explore Municipal Setting Designations (MSD) in Dallas. The purpose of a Municipal Setting Designation (MSD) is to certify properties in order to limit the scope of or eliminate the need for investigation of or response actions addressing contaminant impacts to groundwater that has been restricted from use as potable water by ordinance/restrictive covenant.

This data is to be used for graphical representation only. The accuracy is not to be taken/used as data produced by a Registered Professional Land Surveyor (RPLS) for the State of Texas. 'This product is for informational purposes and may not have been prepared for or be suitable for legal, engineering, or surveying purposes. It does not represent an on-the-ground survey and represents only the approximate relative location of property boundaries.' (Texas Government Code § 2051.102)

Deed-restricted properties or properties with deeds containing covenants or restrictions that require such dwelling unit(s) be sold or rented at or below prices that will preserve the unit(s) as affordable housing as defined in C.G.S. Section 8-39a for persons or families whose incomes are less than or equal to 80% of the area median income.

The Affordable Housing Appeals Procedure List is published annually on or about February 1. The data for the Affordable Housing Appeals Procedure List comes from different sources including federal, state and local programs. This makes it difficult to ensure complete accuracy, so DOH asks municipalities to provide a local administrative review of and input on the street addresses of units and projects as well as information on deed-restricted units. The responses received by DOH vary widely from each municipality.

In developing the Affordable Housing Appeals Procedure List, DOH counts:

-Assisted housing units or housing receiving financial assistance under any governmental program for the construction or substantial rehabilitation of low and moderate income housing that was occupied or under construction by the end date of the report period for compilation of a given year’s list; -Rental housing occupied by persons receiving rental assistance under C.G.S. Chapter 138a (State Rental Assistance/RAP) or Section 142f of Title 42 of the U.S. Code (Section 8); -Ownership housing or housing currently financed by the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority and/or the U.S. Department of Agriculture; and -Deed-restricted properties or properties with deeds containing covenants or restrictions that require such dwelling unit(s) be sold or rented at or below prices that will preserve the unit(s) as affordable housing as defined in C.G.S. Section 8-39a for persons or families whose incomes are less than or equal to 80% of the area median income.

An MSD is an official state designation given to property within a municipality or its extraterritorial jurisdiction that certifies that designated groundwater at the property is not used as potable water, and is prohibited from future use as potable water because that groundwater is contaminated in excess of the applicable potable-water protective concentration level. The prohibition must be in the form of a city ordinance, or a restrictive covenant that is enforceable by the city and filed in the property records.

An MSD is an official state designation given to property within a municipality or its extraterritorial jurisdiction that certifies that designated groundwater at the property is not used as potable water, and is prohibited from future use as potable water because that groundwater is contaminated in excess of the applicable potable-water protective concentration level. The prohibition must be in the form of a city ordinance, or a restrictive covenant that is enforceable by the city and filed in the property records.

Geologic hazard corridor is a continous strip of undisturbed vegetation connecting two critical areas, protected in perpetuity from development via a restrictive covenant in the form of a conservation easement, sensitive area easement, or sensitive area tract. The comprehensive bibliography: "For a comprehensive bibliography of the geology of Boulder County, interested parties are referred to: American Geological Institute, 1976, Bibliography and Index of Colorado Geography, Colorado Geological Survey Bulletin 37, pp. 405-409."

Direct link: Short-Term Rental Eligibility Dataset

DATASET CONTEXT

Boston's ordinance on short-term rentals is designed to incorporate the growth of the home-share industry into the City's work to create affordable housing for all residents. We want to preserve housing for residents while allowing Bostonians to benefit from this new industry. Starting on on January 1, 2019, short-term rentals in Boston will need to register with the City of Boston.

Eligibility for every unit in the City of Boston is dependant on the following six criteria:

• No affordability covenant restrictions
• Compliance with housing laws and codes
• No violations of laws regarding short-term rental use
• Owner occupied
• Two- or three-family dwelling
• Residential use classification

The Short-Term Rental Eligibility Dataset leverages information, wherever possible, about these criteria. For additional details and information about these criteria, please visit https://www.boston.gov/short-term-rentals.

ABOUT THIS DATASET

ATTENTION: The Short-Term Rental Eligibility Dataset is now available for residents and landlords to determine their registration eligibility.

NOTE: These data are refreshed on a nightly basis.

In June 2018, a citywide ordinance established new guidelines and regulations for short-term rentals in Boston. Registration opened January 1, 2019. The Short-Term Rental Eligibility Dataset was created to help residents, landlords, and City officials determine whether a property is eligible to be registered as a short-term rental.

The Short-Term Rental Eligibility Dataset currently joins data from the following datasets:

• Live Street Address Management (SAM) Addresses
• Assessing Online
• Code Enforcement - Building and Property
• Problem Properties
• Income-Restricted Properties
• STR Registration Data

HOW TO DETERMINE ELIGIBILITY FOR SHORT-TERM RENTAL REGISTRATION

1. ** Open** the Short-Term Rental Eligibility Dataset. In the dataset's search bar, enter the address of the property you are seeking to register.

2. Find the row containing the correct address and unit of the property you are seeking. This is the information we have for your unit.

3. Look at the columns marked as “Home-Share Eligible,” “Limited-Share Eligible,” and “Owner-Adjacent Eligible.”

   A “yes” under any of these columns means your unit IS eligible for registration under that short-term rental type. Click here for a description of short-term rental types.

   A “no” under any of these columns means your unit is NOT eligible for registration under that short-term rental type. Click here for a description of short-term rental types.

4. If your unit has a “yes” under “Home-Share Eligible,” “Limited-Share Eligible,” or “Owner-Adjacent Eligible,” you can register your unit here.

WHY IS MY UNIT LISTED AS “NOT ELIGIBLE”?

If you find that your unit is listed as NOT eligible, and you would like to understand more about why, you can use the Short-Term Rental Eligibility Dataset to learn more. The following columns measure each of the six eligibility criteria in the following ways:

1. No affordability covenant restrictions

   • A “yes” in the “Income Restricted” column tells you that the unit is marked as income restricted and is NOT eligible.

The “Income Restricted” column measures whether the unit is subject to an affordability covenant, as reported by the Department of Neighborhood Development and/or the Boston Planning and Development Agency.
For questions about affordability covenants, contact the Department of Neighborhood Development.

1. Compliance with housing laws and codes

   • A “yes” in the “Problem Properties” column tells you that this unit is considered a “Problem Property” by the Problem Properties Task Force and is NOT eligible.

Learn more about how “Problem Properties” are defined here.

* A **“yes”** in the **“Problem Property Owner”** column tells you that the owner of this unit also owns a “Problem Property,” as reported by the Problem Properties Task Force. 

Owners with any properties designated as a Problem Property are NOT eligible.

No unit owned by the owner of a “Problem Property” may register a short-term rental.
Learn more about how “Problem Properties” are defined here.

* The **“Open Violation Count”** column tells you how many open violations the unit has. Units with **any open** violations are NOT eligible. Violations counted include: violations of the sanitary, building, zoning, and fire code; stop work orders; and abatement orders. 

NOTE: Violations written before 1/1/19 that are still open will make a unit NOT eligible until these violations are resolved.
If your unit has an open violation, visit these links to appeal your violation(s) or pay your code violation fine(s).

* The **“Violations in the Last 6 Months”** column tells you how many violations the unit has received in the last six months. Units with **three or more** violations, whether open or closed, are NOT eligible. 

NOTE: Only violations written on or after 1/1/19 will count against this criteria.
If your unit has an open violation, visit these links to appeal your violation(s) or pay your code violation fine(s).

How to comply with housing laws and codes:
Have an open violation? Visit these links to appeal your violation(s) or pay your code violation fine(s).
Have questions about problem properties? Visit Neighborhood Service’s Problem Properties site.
a legal restriction that prohibits the use of the unit as a Short-Term Rental under condominium bylaws.
Units with legal restrictions found upon investigation are NOT eligible.

If the investigation of a complaint against the unit yields restrictions of the nature detailed above, we will mark the unit with a “yes” in this column. Until such complaint-based investigations begin, all units are marked with “no.”
NOTE: Currently no units have a “legally restricted” designation.
Limited-Share
If you are the owner-occupant of a unit and you have not filed for Residential Tax Exemption, you can still register your unit by proving owner-occupancy. It is recommended that you submit proof of residency in your short-term rental registration application to expedite the process of proving owner-occupancy (see “Primary Residence Evidence” section).

* **“Building Owner-Occupied”** measures whether the building has a single owner AND is owner occupied. A “no” in this column indicates that the unit is NOT eligible for an owner-adjacent short-term rental. 

If you believe your building occupancy data is incorrect, please contact the Assessing Department.

1. Two- or three-family dwelling

   • The “Units in Building” column tells you how many units are in the building. Owner-Adjacent units are only allowed in two- to three-family buildings; therefore, four or more units in this column will mark the unit as NOT eligible for an Owner-Adjacent Short-Term Rental.

   • A “no” in the “Building Single Owner” column tells you that the owner of this unit does not own the entire building and is NOT eligible for an Owner-Adjacent Short-Term Rental.

   If you believe your building occupancy data is incorrect, please contact the Assessing Department.
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   If you believe your building occupancy data is incorrect, please contact the Assessing Department.

Visit this site for more information on unit eligibility criteria.