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patterns, the Metropolitan Urban Service Area is divided into five community designations: <br />Urban Center, Urban, Suburban, Suburban Edge, and Emerging Suburban Edge. <br />About half of the land in the Twin Cities region is in the Rural Service Area. This area includes a <br />range of uses including cultivated farmland, vineyards, hobby farms, gravel mines, woodlands, <br />small towns, scattered and clustered housing, open spaces and significant expanses of the <br />region's natural resources. Aside from the investments in the regional parks system, <br />investments in regional service are limited in the Rural Area. To protect the vital agricultural <br />lands and natural amenities and accommodate desires for rural and small-town residential <br />choices, the Rural Area is divided into four community designations: Rural Center, Rural <br />Residential, Diversified Rural, and Agricultural. <br />DRAFT FOR PUBLIC COMMENT <br />Last revised: February 21, 2014 51 <br />