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Orange County · Board of Equalization & Review
Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Regular meeting Housing and affordabilityTax rate and revaluation

Agenda document Minutes Watch Meeting recap

What's on this agenda

Orange County's Board of Equalization and Review has 28 property tax appeals on its December 17 docket. A morning session covers 13 commercial and larger parcels, including office and retail buildings on Market Street and Weaver Dairy Road. An afternoon session covers 15 houses and vacant lots, including several on North Street and Clarence Drive.

Most of the morning's appellants are limited liability companies and a family partnership. Most of the afternoon's appellants are individual owners appealing their own homes or land. All contest what the county says their property is worth.

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

The board decided 27 of the 28 scheduled appeals on December 17. It reduced 20 assessments by a combined $6,189,700, from $61,589,500 to $55,399,800, and left 7 unchanged; none went up. Appellants argued flood damage, land-access and easement problems, or their own fee appraisals and comparable sales. The county's appraisers answered each with a separate analysis. No appellant got the exact value they asked for: every decision matched the county's recommendation or landed somewhere between it and the appellant's.

Sixteen owners appeared in person, four by phone, and seven — including Rougemont Storage Center LLC and Dharma Holdings LLC — were decided from the written record alone. The largest single cut, $1,860,700, went to Chapel Hill Timberlyne LLC's office building at 1129 Weaver Dairy Road, down to $15,053,600. Three adjoining houses on North Street in Chapel Hill's Historic District were appealed separately by the same owner. Four adjoining lots on Clarence Drive were appealed separately by four different owners.

How the votes went

Twenty-seven appeals decided: twenty assessments reduced, seven held unchanged, none increased.

From the published minutes.

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Agenda items (1)

Other · 1
  1. II Appeals Hearings
    Other Housing and affordabilityTax rate and revaluation
    The board decided 27 of the 28 scheduled appeals, reducing 20 assessments by a combined $6,189,700 and leaving 7 unchanged; none went up. The largest cut, $1,860,700, went to Chapel Hill Timberlyne LLC's office building at 1129 Weaver Dairy Road, down to $15,053,600.
    Twenty reduced, seven unchanged
    • 1129 Weaver Dairy Rd · no matching parcel on file
    • 400 Market St · no matching parcel on file
    • 410 Market St · no matching parcel on file
    • 710 Market St · no matching parcel on file
    • 602 Jones Ferry Rd · no matching parcel on file
    • 1322 Fordham Blvd · no matching parcel on file
    • 1 Holland Dr · no matching parcel on file
    • 1001 S Columbia St · no matching parcel on file
    • 8927 Mile Branch Rd · no matching parcel on file
    • 303 Smith Level Rd · no matching parcel on file
    • Pin 9787056725 · S V Center LLC · assessed $3,751,200
    • Pin 9787053344
    • Pin 9787055943 · S V Center LLC · assessed $9,877,200
    • Pin 9778345932 · Dreamy Hollow Apartments Co · assessed $6,795,900
    • Pin 9880451236 · Chapel Hill Timberlyne LLC · assessed $15,053,600
    • Pin 9788313541 · Holland Family 1995 Limited Ptnr · assessed $4,429,800
    • Pin 9788218399 · Holland Family 1995 Ltd Ptnr · assessed $826,500
    • Pin 9799246919 · Mariakakis Enterprises · assessed $2,649,200
    • Pin 910237159 · no matching parcel on file
    • Pin 9778719635

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