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Orange County · Board of Equalization & Review
Wednesday, August 5, 2026

Regular meeting Tax rate and revaluationStormwater and flooding

Agenda document Minutes Watch Meeting recap

What's on this agenda

Six residential appeals and a consent agenda. Four owners are attending in the opening forty-five minutes; the last two, late in the afternoon, are not.

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

This is the ordinary shape of the board's work: individual homeowners contesting what the county says their houses are worth after the revaluation, four of them turning up in person. The properties are scattered across the county rather than concentrated in one neighbourhood, and four different appraisers are assigned, which means the cases have nothing in common but the calendar.

The meeting closes with a consent agenda requiring a motion - the board's route for disposing of matters that need no hearing.

How the votes went

All eight motions passed 3-0: three assessments reduced, two held, the consent agenda approved as amended, and one appeal pulled from consent and rescheduled for a full hearing.

From the published minutes.

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Agenda items (8)

Other · 3Consent agenda · 2Procedural · 1Minutes approval · 1Public hearing · 1
  1. 1 Call to Order
    Procedural
  2. 2 Approve June 30, 2026 meeting minutes
    Minutes approval
    Minutes from the June 30, 2026 meeting.
  3. 3.a Value Appeal — parcel area
    Public hearing Tax rate and revaluation
    Six residential appeals against 2026 valuations, four with the owner attending and scheduled in the first forty-five minutes, two later in the afternoon without. Properties are spread across the county and four different appraisers are assigned.
    No change, value held at $503,664, 3-0
  1. 3.c Value Appeal — comparable properties
    Other Tax rate and revaluation
    An appeal from comparable sales on a $631,800 assessment, with the owner arguing for $536,600. The board went further than the county recommended, setting the effective year built to match the actual year built.
    Reduced to $619,500, 3-0
  2. 3.i Value Appeal — flood zone
    Other Stormwater and floodingTax rate and revaluation
    An appeal arguing a property in a flood zone should be assessed at $140,000 rather than $162,100.
    No change, value held at $162,100, 3-0
  3. 3.j Value Appeal — railroad and adjoining town land
    Other Tax rate and revaluation
    An appeal on a $123,200 lot, arguing that its position near a railroad and surrounded by Town of Chapel Hill land is a negative influence, and that a neighbor's driveway encroaches on it. The owner asked for $95,000.
    Reduced to $114,000, 3-0

Agenda changes

What moved between published versions of this agenda. Item numbers shift constantly as things are inserted, so only genuine additions and removals are listed.

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