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Orange County · Board of Equalization & Review
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Regular meeting Housing and affordabilityLand conversion and large developmentRezoningTax rate and revaluation

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What's on this agenda

Orange County's board of equalization and review hears 21 property tax appeals on January 13. Seven individual homeowners appear in the morning. Fourteen limited liability companies and corporations that own apartment complexes and commercial buildings in Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough appear in the afternoon.

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Meeting recap

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

The board decided 18 of the 21 appeals: seven assessments reduced, ten unchanged and one increased. Two appeals were continued to a later date and one was denied because it was filed after the deadline. The seven individual homeowners who appeared had combined assessments of $2,788,400 cut to $2,738,200, a decrease of about 1.8 percent. The 12 decided commercial appeals fell from a combined $503.1 million to about $474 million, a cut of $29.2 million, or roughly 5.8 percent. Two more commercial appeals, both retail condominiums in downtown Chapel Hill, were continued.

The board's biggest cut came on a 6.6-acre industrial tract at 403 Jones Ferry Road in Carrboro. It accepted Jones Ferry Partners LLC's own appraisal, cutting the assessment from $3,955,700 to $1,150,000, a 71 percent cut, rather than the county's recommended $3,649,400. The county had argued that Carrboro's 2022 comprehensive plan calls for the site to become mixed-use, with affordable housing or a recreation center. That would move the industrial use farther from downtown. The board also cut Solano at Chapel Hill, a 240-unit complex, from $65,262,900 to $52,378,100. It reduced one Hartley at Blue Hill parcel from $88,783,300 to $74,592,000 and raised the complex's smaller parcel from $24,312,900 to $26,159,200.

How the votes went

Eighteen appeals decided: seven assessments reduced, ten held unchanged, one increased. Two appeals continued to a later date and one untimely appeal denied.

From the published minutes.

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Agenda items (1)

Other · 1
  1. II Appeals Hearings
    Other Housing and affordabilityLand conversion and large developmentRezoningTax rate and revaluation
    Twenty-one appeals were heard: seven from individual homeowners in the morning, 14 from companies owning apartment complexes and commercial buildings in the afternoon. The board reduced seven assessments, held ten unchanged, increased one, continued two and denied one as untimely. The docket was dominated by large Chapel Hill apartment complexes. The board's biggest cut, 71 percent, went to Jones Ferry Partners LLC's industrial tract in Carrboro, taking the owner's own appraisal over the county's recommendation.
    Seven reduced, ten unchanged, one increased, two continued, one denied as untimely
    • 403 Jones Ferry Rd · no matching parcel on file
    • 501 Jones Ferry Rd · no matching parcel on file
    • 100 Saluda Ct · no matching parcel on file
    • 625 S Elliott Rd · no matching parcel on file
    • 540 S Elliott Rd · no matching parcel on file
    • 100 Drew Hill Ln · no matching parcel on file
    • 350 Carraway Xing · no matching parcel on file
    • 100 Patriots Pointe Dr · no matching parcel on file
    • 208 Conner Dr · no matching parcel on file
    • 55 Maxwell Rd · no matching parcel on file
    • 411 Flemington Rd · no matching parcel on file

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