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Orange County · Board of Equalization & Review
Thursday, August 6, 2026

Regular meeting Tax rate and revaluationHousing and affordabilityLand conversion and large development

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What's on this agenda

An afternoon given entirely to commercial appeals, and to four of them from one company. No owner is attending any of them; the board decides on the written record and the appraiser's presentation.

Summarized from the published agenda. Read the agenda itself before acting on it.

Meeting recap

What happened, drawn from the records published after the meeting. Minutes

One appeal covers 58 townhouses at once. A single limited partnership owns all of them and is contesting their 2026 valuations as a block, listed under one parcel number with the rest implied - the sort of appeal that moves more assessed value in fifteen minutes than a month of individual homeowners.

A self-storage company brings four separate appeals on four sites: three on Ashley Wade Lane and one on Booth Road. A student housing entity appeals a property on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.

Every appellant on the agenda is a company and none is sending a representative. The same appraiser is assigned to all six matters, which is what the county does when the properties are of a kind.

How the votes went

All six appeals decided 3-0. Three assessments reduced, two held unchanged, and one portfolio of 58 units reduced as a block.

From the published minutes.

Speaking at this meeting

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Agenda items (7)

Other · 5Procedural · 1Public hearing · 1
  1. 1 Call to Order
    Procedural
  2. 3 Value Appeal — PRIII TRG Chapel Hill Owner LP, 58 townhome properties
    Public hearing Housing and affordabilityLand conversion and large developmentTax rate and revaluation
    Six commercial appeals, all with the owner not attending, all before the same appraiser. One limited partnership appeals 58 individual townhouse properties as a block. A self-storage company appeals four sites, three on Ashley Wade Lane and one on Booth Road. A student housing entity appeals a property on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
    Reduced to $25,816,400, or $457,400 per unit, 3-0
  3. 3.a Value Appeal — University Chapel Hill Owner LLC, 600 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive
    Other Housing and affordabilityTax rate and revaluation
    An appeal from comparable properties on a $14,500,000 assessment. The owner argued for $9,000,000.
    No change, value held at $14,500,000, 3-0
    • 600 Martin Luther King Jr Dr · no matching parcel on file
    • Pin 9788395200 · Birgel Family Partnership · assessed $5,015,700
  4. 3.b Value Appeal — Prime Storage Chapel Hill LLC, 6000 Ashley Wade Lane
    Other Tax rate and revaluation
    One of four self-storage parcels appealed together on recent income and expense data, with the owner arguing the four should be valued collectively at $5.3 million. This parcel was assessed at $600,900.
    Reduced to $494,700, 3-0
    • 6000 Ashley Wade Ln · no matching parcel on file
    • Pin 9776581384 · Prime Storage Chapel Hill LLC · assessed $600,900
  5. 3.c Value Appeal — Prime Storage Chapel Hill LLC, 7000 Ashley Wade Lane
    Other Tax rate and revaluation
    The second of the four self-storage parcels, assessed at $1,137,900.
    Reduced to $979,000, 3-0
    • 7000 Ashley Wade Ln · no matching parcel on file
    • Pin 9776489797 · Prime Storage Chapel Hill LLC · assessed $1,137,900
  6. 3.h Value Appeal — Prime Storage Chapel Hill LLC, 93 Booth Road
    Other Tax rate and revaluation
    The third of the four self-storage parcels, assessed at $490,900.
    No change, value held at $490,900, 3-0
    • 93 Booth Rd · no matching parcel on file
    • Pin 9776585430 · Prime Storage Chapel Hill LLC · assessed $490,900
  7. 3.i Value Appeal — Prime Storage Chapel Hill LLC, 1000 Ashley Wade Lane
    Other Tax rate and revaluation
    The largest of the four self-storage parcels, assessed at $5,210,500.
    Reduced to $4,136,800, 3-0
    • 1000 Ashley Wade Ln · no matching parcel on file
    • Pin 9776582516 · Prime Storage Chapel Hill LLC · assessed $5,210,500

Agenda changes

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