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Orange County · Board of Equalization & Review
Wednesday, December 10, 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 hears thirty-five appeals over 2025 real estate assessments on December 10. Fifteen owners appear in the morning, twenty in the afternoon. Most of the properties are on streets in Chapel Hill's Northside district and Carrboro's Lloyd/Broad district.

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 granted all thirty-five appeals. Assessments fell from $11,872,965 to $9,201,065 in total, a cut of $2,671,900 or 22.5 percent. Individual reductions ran from 2.2 percent to 62.8 percent, with a median of about 21.

The properties were not scattered. They sit in Chapel Hill's Northside district and the Lloyd/Broad district of Carrboro, on Merritt Mill Road, Graham Street, Sykes Street, McDade Street, Lindsay Street, Eugene Street, Alabama Avenue, Guthrie Avenue and Glosson Circle. One attorney represented twenty-eight of the thirty-five owners.

How the votes went

Thirty-five appeals decided, all thirty-five reduced. None held unchanged and none increased.

From the published minutes.

Speaking at this meeting

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Agenda items (2)

Other · 2
  1. II (9:00 a.m.) Morning appeals hearings
    Other Housing and affordabilityTax rate and revaluation
    Fifteen appeals on houses in Chapel Hill's Northside district and Carrboro's Lloyd/Broad district, arguing land overvaluation, condition deficiencies and equity problems within the neighborhood. All fifteen were reduced, from 2.2 percent to 38.2 percent.
    All reduced
    • 704 W Rosemary St · no matching parcel on file
    • 114 Starlite Dr · no matching parcel on file
    • 116 Starlite Dr · no matching parcel on file
    • 407 Sykes St · no matching parcel on file
    • 433 Mason St · no matching parcel on file
    • 405 Lindsay St · no matching parcel on file
    • 314 Lindsay St · no matching parcel on file
    • 503 Chapel St · no matching parcel on file
    • 306 Mcdade St · no matching parcel on file
    • 304 Mcdade St · no matching parcel on file
    • 500 Church St · no matching parcel on file
    • 123 S Merritt Mill Rd · no matching parcel on file
    • 119 S Merritt Mill Rd · no matching parcel on file
    • 126 S Graham St · no matching parcel on file
    • 117 S Graham St · no matching parcel on file
    • Pin 9788062518 · Barnett Eva Viola Trustee · assessed $301,100
    • Pin 9788070212 · Evans Carolyn · assessed $255,100
    • Pin 9788070208 · Fearrington Matthew W · assessed $225,700
    • Pin 9788073923 · Foushee Garland Hrs · assessed $329,000
    • Pin 9788096126 · Wilburn Adriane Michelle Et Al · assessed $262,365
    • Pin 9788175335 · Watson Richelle · assessed $259,500
    • Pin 9788178772 · Atwater Kathy A · assessed $342,800
    • Pin 9788185068 · Deans Paulette Etal · assessed $202,000
    • Pin 9788188186 · Booth Charles Anthony · assessed $266,800
    • Pin 9788189128 · Booth Anita · assessed $206,000
    • Pin 9788281298 · Wilson Etta H · assessed $337,200
    • Pin 9788059248 · Atwater Jane Lynette · assessed $590,800
    • Pin 9788059403 · Williams Cynthia Faye · assessed $388,200
    • Pin 9788151266 · Walker Sandra G · assessed $393,700
    • Pin 9788152524 · Fearrington Kimberly Y Et Al · assessed $300,700
  2. II (1:00 p.m.) Afternoon appeals hearings
    Other Housing and affordabilityTax rate and revaluation
    Twenty more appeals in the same neighborhoods, on Knolls Street, Grant Street, Crest Drive, Eugene Street, Guthrie Avenue, Alabama Avenue, Glosson Circle, Bert Street, Rencher Street, James Street and Johnson Street. All twenty were reduced, from 5.4 percent to 62.8 percent, after staff review and site inspections.
    All reduced
    • 221 Knolls St · no matching parcel on file
    • 412 Knolls St · no matching parcel on file
    • 108 Grant St · no matching parcel on file
    • 106 Crest Dr · no matching parcel on file
    • 704 S Merritt Mill Rd · no matching parcel on file
    • 116 Eugene St · no matching parcel on file
    • 112 Eugene St · no matching parcel on file
    • 107 Eugene St · no matching parcel on file
    • 106 Guthrie Ave · no matching parcel on file
    • 104 Guthrie Ave · no matching parcel on file
    • 112 Alabama Ave · no matching parcel on file
    • 110 Alabama Ave · no matching parcel on file
    • 113 Alabama Ave · no matching parcel on file
    • 108 Glosson Cir · no matching parcel on file
    • 103 Glosson Cir · no matching parcel on file
    • 100 Bert St · no matching parcel on file
    • 121 Rencher St · no matching parcel on file
    • 102 James St · no matching parcel on file

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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