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Orange County · Board of Equalization & Review
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Regular meeting Housing and affordabilityTax rate and revaluation

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What's on this agenda

The Orange County Board of Equalization and Review heard 29 property-tax appeals of 2025 revaluation values on November 20. It split the docket into a morning session, 9:03 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., and an afternoon session, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Fourteen of the 29 owners appeared or sent a representative; the rest let their appeal proceed on the record. The board reduced 20 assessments, left eight unchanged, and raised one, cutting the combined value of the properties it heard from $18,206,100 to $17,147,100.

Eight appeals concerned Northside Chapel Hill rental properties: four from one trust, four from Mastin Holdings LLC and CHNS LLC. Most disputed their Designed Rental Single Family Residence classification, and the board reduced six of the eight, leaving two unchanged. On its last appeal of the day, the board's own review found a misclassified garage and raised a property's value from $223,100 to $225,800, over the owner's request for a reduction.

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Meeting recap

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

Chair Richal Vanhook presided over both sessions. In the morning, the panel of Vanhook, Saru Salvi and alternate Barbara Levine heard 19 appeals; in the afternoon, Vanhook, Salvi and alternate Shannon Julian heard 10 more, for 29 appeals total, all decided unanimously. Several Northside Chapel Hill rental properties drew similar disputes over the county's Designed Rental Single Family Residence land adjustment: the board accepted county-recommended reductions on 119 Caldwell Street, 604 and 602 Church Street and 203 Caldwell Street (all owned by the James W. C. Pendergraft Trust), and on 434 Mason Street, a vacant Gomains Avenue lot, 507 Coolidge Street (Mastin Holdings LLC and CHNS LLC, represented by Adam Brown), and went beyond the county's own recommendation on 212 N. Graham Street, cutting it from $580,400 to $426,300. Most other appeals were reduced modestly from the county's proposed value or sustained at the county's figure with no change; one, Russell C. Briggs's continued appeal on Brookhollow Road, resulted in an increase to $225,800 after the county's site review found a garage misclassified as a carport.

How the votes went

All 29 decisions passed unanimously, with no votes recorded against, split across a three-member morning panel (Richal Vanhook, Saru Salvi, Barbara Levine) and a three-member afternoon panel (Richal Vanhook, Saru Salvi, Shannon Julian).

From the published minutes.

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Agenda items (1)

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  1. II Appeals Hearings
    Other Housing and affordabilityTax rate and revaluation
    The board heard 29 real-property appeals of 2025 revaluation values over a morning and an afternoon session, reducing 20 assessments, leaving eight unchanged, and raising one after finding a misclassified garage. Eight of the appeals, from one trust and from Mastin Holdings LLC and CHNS LLC, involved Northside Chapel Hill rentals disputing their Designed Rental Single Family Residence classification; the board reduced six and left two unchanged.
    Twenty reduced, eight unchanged, one increased
    • 434 Mason St · no matching parcel on file
    • 212 N Graham St · no matching parcel on file
    • 507 Coolidge St · no matching parcel on file
    • Pin 9788095175 · Mastin Holdings LLC · assessed $503,700
    • Pin 9788083254 · Chns LLC · assessed $44,000
    • Pin 9788067804 · Mastin Holdings LLC · assessed $426,300
    • Pin 9788116439 · Chns LLC · assessed $816,600

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