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HF 745 2nd Engrossment - 88th Legislature (2013 - 2014) Page 1 of 2 <br />Minnesota State Legislature <br />Minnesota House of Representatives <br />HF 745 2nd Engrossment - 88th Legislature (2013 - 2014) Posted on 04/02/2013 03:12pm <br />KEY: stricken = removed, old language. underscored = added, new language. <br />Version List Authors and Status <br />1.1 A bill for an act <br />1.2 relating to municipalities; authorizing municipalities to establish street <br />1.3 improvement districts and apportion street improvement fees within districts; <br />1.4 requiring adoption of street improvement plan; authorizing collection of fees; <br />1.5 proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 435. <br />1.6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: <br />1.7 Section 1. 1'435.391 MUNICIPAL STREET IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS. <br />1.8 Subdivision 1. Definitions. (a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms <br />1.9 have the meanings given them. <br />1.10 (b) "Governing body" means the city council of a municipality. <br />i.11 (c) "Improvements" means construction, reconstruction, and facility upgrades <br />1.12 involving: right-of-way acquisition; paving; curbs and gutters; bridges and culverts and <br />1.13 their repair; milling; overlaying; drainage and storm sewers; excavation; base work; <br />1.14 subgrade corrections; street lighting; traffic signals; signage; sidewalks; pavement <br />1.15 markings; boulevard and easement restoration; impact mitigation; connection and <br />1.16 reconnection of utilities; turn lanes; medians; street and alley returns; retaining walls; <br />1.17 fences; lane additions; and fixed transit infrastructure, trails, or pathways. "Fixed transit <br />1.18 infrastructure" does not include commuter rail rolling stock, light rail vehicles, or <br />1.19 transit way buses; capital costs for park -and -ride facilities; feasibility studies, planning, <br />1.20 alternative analyses, environmental studies, engineering, or construction of transit ways; <br />1.21 or operating assistance for transit ways. <br />1.22 (d) "Maintenance" means striping, seal coating, crack sealing, pavement repair, <br />1.23 sidewalk maintenance, signal maintenance, street light maintenance, and signage. <br />1.24 (e) "Municipal street" means a street, alley, or public way in which the municipality <br />1.25 is the road authority with powers conferred by section 429.021. <br />2.1 }f) "Municipality" means a home rule charter or statutory city. <br />2.2 (CO "Street improvement district" means a geographic area designated by a <br />2.3 municipality and located within the municipality within which street improvements and <br />2.4 maintenance may be undertaken and financed according to this section. <br />2.5 (h) "Undeveloped parcel" means a parcel of land that abuts an unimproved municipal <br />2,6 street and that is not served by municipal sewer or water utilities; or in the case of a parcel <br />2.7 abutting an improved municipal street and served by municipal sewer or water utilities. <br />2.8 the parcel contains a structure that has not previously been occupied. <br />2.9 Subd. 2. Authorization. A municipality may establish by ordinance municipal <br />2.10 street improvement districts and may defray all or part of the total costs of municipal street <br />2.11 improvements and maintenance by apportioning street improvement fees to all of the <br />2.12 developed parcels located in the district. A street improvement district must not include <br />2.13 any property already located .in another street improvement district. <br />2.14 Subd. 3. Uniformity. The total costs of municipal street improvements and <br />2.15 maintenance must be apportioned to all developed parcels or developed tracts of land <br />2.16 located in the established street improvement district on a uniform basis within each <br />2.17 classification of real estate. <br />2.18 Subd. 4. Adoption of plan. Before establishing a municipal street improvement <br />2.19 district or authorizing a street improvement fee, a municipality must propose and adopt a <br />2.20 street improvement plan that identifies the location of the municipal street improvement <br />2.21 district and identifies and estimates the costs of the proposed improvements during the <br />2.22 proposed period of collection of municipal street improvement fees, which must be for <br />2.23 a period of at least five years and at most 20 years. Notice of a public hearing on the <br />2,24 proposed plan must be given by mail to all affected landowners at least 30 days before <br />2.25 the hearing and posted for at least 30 days before the hearing. At the public hearing the <br />2.26 governing body must present the plan and all affected landowners in attendance must have <br />2.27 the opportunity to comment before the governing body considers adoption of the plan. <br />2.28 Subd. 5. Use of fees. Revenues from street improvement fees must be placed in <br />2.29 a separate account and used only for projects located within the district and identified <br />2,30 in the municipal street improvement plan. <br />hags a/www.revisor.mn, gov/bills/text.php?number=HF745 &version=2&session-ls 88&sessi... 4/9/2014 <br />