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Orange County · Board of Equalization & Review
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Regular meeting Stormwater and floodingTax rate and revaluation

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What's on this agenda

The Orange County Board of Equalization and Review is scheduled to hear 13 real-property valuation appeals from owners contesting their 2025 revaluation assessments, including back-to-back appeals on Sharpe Road and a lakefront home on North Lakeshore Drive.

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Meeting recap

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

The board heard all 13 appeals over about three hours on November 18, with a recess from 3:12 to 3:20 p.m. It reduced nine assessments and left four unchanged, cutting combined value from $11,956,600 to $10,520,200. It went further than the county's own recommendation on several appeals, including a 50% floodplain land adjustment on the North Lakeshore Drive property that cut its value by $950,000, and a Marions Ford Road property with worn outbuildings reduced below the county's proposed figure. All appeals passed without opposition except the last, a 1962 house on Markham Drive, which the board reduced to $740,300 over Chair Leon Meyers's dissent, 2-1.

How the votes went

Twelve of the 13 appeals passed unanimously among the three-member panel of Leon Meyers, Saru Salvi and Richal Vanhook, with no votes against. The final appeal, a Markham Drive property, passed 2-1, with Leon Meyers casting the lone vote against reducing the value to $740,300.

From the published minutes.

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Agenda items (1)

Other · 1
  1. II Appeals Hearings
    Other Stormwater and floodingTax rate and revaluation
    The board heard 13 real-property valuation appeals, with eight owners appearing in person and five submitting evidence in writing. It reduced nine assessments and left four unchanged, cutting combined value from $11,956,600 to $10,520,200, a drop of about 12%. Individual reductions ranged from 4% to 50% of assessed value, on grounds including comparable sales, independent appraisals, deferred maintenance and flood-zone location. The largest single cut, $950,000, went to a lakefront home on North Lakeshore Drive after the board applied a 50% floodplain land adjustment beyond the county's own recommended 15%.
    Nine reduced, four unchanged
    • 2136 N Lakeshore Dr · no matching parcel on file
    • Pin 9890000384 · Marchetti Lauren M · assessed $1,313,100

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