HENNEPIN COUNTY PARCEL DIVISION OR COMBINATION CITY APPROVAL FORM
2 | P a g e HC A-500 Property ID and Plang
NOTE: It is important to keep all lenders or mortgagees aware that you are dividing or combining real property. Consult
your mortgage company as to whether or not they need to issue an amendment to, or a paral release of, any mortgage
or other encumbrance of the aected real property as a foreclosure of the aected real property can undo any previously
approved division or combinaon.
All taxes for the current year and any delinquent taxes must be paid for the enrety of the exisng tax parcel
before the property can be divided or sold o (MN statute § 272.121).
As a general policy, Hennepin County does not combine tax parcels that cross streets unless the street is vacated
and assumed to be owned by the adjoining tax parcel owner
Unique Taxing Areas (UTA) such as City, Water, Sewer, School, and Tax Increment Financing (TIF) districts must be
considered when a request for a division or combinaon of tax parcels is submied
Hennepin will create tax parcels that contain Abstract, Torrens, Plaed and unplaed lands
A tax parcel can contain mulple plats and mulple secons in any township and range as long as each tax parcel
are located in the same UTA(s)
A tax parcel would normally represent parcels of land that would be expected to be sold to and held by the same or
future owner
Do not combine properes if there is a possibility an exisng parcel may later be divided o and sold
The City in which the land being divided is situated, may refuse a future divisions or could place other condions on
granng said division
For a Torrens parcel division or combinaon, the Parcel Idencaon and Plang group (PIP) will review and issue
a verbal or email approval on behalf of the Registrar of Titles (see § 508.47)
Division Scenarios:
Current year taxes (and any delinquent taxes) must be paid before a poron of a tax parcel can be sold or transferred,
and before a tax parcel division or combinaon can be iniated (§ 272.121).
What else is required to iniate a tax parcel division?
a) Transfer document signed by the owner(s) causing a tax parcel split
Required: City approval or noce that City approval is not required
b) Division/combinaon request form submied by property owner
Required: City approval or noce that City approval is not required
c) City resoluon (or other document given by the city) approving division or noce that City approval is not required
One of the following required before division or combinaon will be iniated:
i) Transfer document signed by the owner(s) causing a tax parcel split
ii) Division/combinaon request form submied by property owner
Combinaon Scenarios:
Current year taxes (and any delinquent taxes) must be paid before a poron of a tax parcel can be sold or transferred,
and before a tax parcel division or combinaon can be iniated (§ 272.121).
What else is required to iniate a tax parcel combinaon?
a) Transfer document signed by the owner(s) causing a tax parcel split - land being transferred is being deeded to the
owner of a neighboring tax parcel
Required: Completed division/combinaon request form submied by the neighboring property owner
b) Transfer document containing mulple tax parcels
Required: Completed division/combinaon request form submied by the new property owner and City
approval or noce that City approval is not required.
c) Division/combinaon request form submied by property owner
Required: City approval or noce that City approval is not required.
d) City resoluon (or other document given by the city) approving combinaon or noce that City approval is not
required
Required: Completed property owner request form.
