During most years of Middlesex County Board of Supervisors (MCBS) budget talks, discussion on the hiring of a regional land assessor in partnership with other surrounding counties comes up.
It came up again during budget talks at an MCBS budget work session Tuesday, Feb. 7, at a meeting conducted before the supervisors regular monthly meeting at 3:30 p.m.
The county presently hires a professional firm to assess land values every four to five years. For the most part, when the work is bid out, the county ends up hiring firms from areas other than from Tidewater Virginia.
Middlesex County Administrator Matt Walker said that this has caused disparities in assessed and true value of some county waterfront properties. “When you are living on a swamp, versus living on a deepwater waterfront creek, the values should not be close. Yet, we have seen some of this.”
“If we had people in-house that understand waterfront property land values and the differences in waterfront properties, the citizens might get a fairer assessment,” he said.
He also said that a fairer assessment might make it more difficult for the local circuit court judge to overturn value disputes…
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