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1 MINNESOTA STATUTES 2012 272.67 272.67 DIVISION OF LAND IN CITIES INTO RURAL AND URBAN DISTRICTS. Subdivision 1.City powers.Any city however organized,except in those counties situated in a metropolitan area as defined in Minnesota Statutes 1961,section 473.02,subdivision 5,which contain cities of the first class,may by ordinance adopted in the manner provided in this section divide its area into an urban service district and a rural service district,constituting separate taxing districts for the purpose of all municipal property taxes except those levied for the payment of bonds and judgments and interest thereon. In proceedings for annexation,incorporation, or consolidation being conducted pursuant to chapter 414,the chief administrative law judge of the state Office of Administrative Hearings may divide a municipality into an urban service district and a rural service district,such districts to be designated in accordance with the criteria set out in subdivision 2.Thereafter,said urban service district and rural service district may be changed in the same manner that an ordinance or amendment is changed in accordance with this section. Subd. 2.Division of lands by ordinance. The rural service district shall include only such unplatted lands as in the judgment of the governing body at the time of the adoption of the ordinance are rural in character,and are not developed for commercial, industrial, or urban residential purposes,and for these reasons are not benefited to the same degree as other lands by municipal services financed by general taxation.The rural service district may include lands which are not contiguous to one another.The ordinance may designate lands outside the city which, if annexed, shall be included within the rural service district.The urban service district shall include all lands within the boundaries of the city which are not included in the rural service district. The ordinance shall determine the approximate ratio which in the judgment of the governing body exists between the benefits resulting from tax-supported municipal service to parcels of land of like market value, situated in the rural service district and in the urban service district,respectively.By amendment of the ordinance this benefit ratio may be changed,and lands may be added to or removed from the m al service district; but no amendment shall be required to remove lands by the procedure provided in subdivision 5. Subd. 3.Publication; public hearing.Every ordinance and amendment introduced under subdivision 2,before final adoption, shall be published in the official newspaper of the city,with notice of the time and place of a hearing thereon which shall be held by the governing body not less than 30 days after the publication.At the hearing,which may be adjourned from time to time by public announcement to those present,the governing body shall give reasonable hearing and consideration to all objections to and comments on the ordinance or amendment,made by or on behalf of any resident or taxpayer of the city or of any outside area described in the ordinance or amendment,whether presented orally or by written communication to the municipal clerk. Objections may be addressed to the establishment or extension of the rural service district as a whole,or to the inclusion or exclusion of any specified lands, or to the benefit ratio proposed to be established by the ordinance.They may be based on the character of the lands included or excluded or on the relative nature and extent of tax-supported municipal service and benefit to lands of rural and urban character. Subd.4.Publication of final ordinance;appeal.At or after the hearing the governing body shall modify the ordinance in any respect and to any extent which it considers equitable,and shall cause it to be published in the form in which it is finally adopted,and a copy mailed to each person entitled to appear at the hearing who has requested a copy at the hearing or by written notice to the clerk.Within 30 days after the publication of the ordinance or amendment,any person entitled to appear at the hearing may appeal to the district court by serving a notice upon the clerk of the city,stating the grounds for such appeal,specifying the provisions of the ordinance or amendment Copyright 0 2012 by the Office of the Revisor of Statutes,State of Minnesota.All Rights Reserved.