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Orange County · Board of Equalization & Review
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Regular meeting Tax rate and revaluation

Agenda document Minutes Watch Meeting recap

What was decided

  1. Continued 3Appeal of 6157 Moinear Lane (Xudong Sui) Continued to a later meeting
  2. Continued 13Appeal of 5809 Crimson Court (Kerri A. Bray) Continued to a later meeting

Read from the agenda's recorded outcomes. Where the board published minutes, those are the record — this is a pointer to them.

What's on this agenda

Orange County's Board of Equalization and Review is scheduled to hear thirteen 2025 property-value appeals in a single session, covering land and homes from Willowbrook Road to Bristol Drive, Gwen Road and Crimson Court. Each owner argues the county's assessed value is too high; the board weighs evidence from both sides on each parcel.

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 heard twelve of the thirteen scheduled appeals over about four hours on Sept. 25. Six ended in a lower assessment, four kept the county's number unchanged, and two were continued for further evidence. On the ten decided appeals, combined assessed value fell from $4,129,400 to $3,896,300, a cut of $233,100. Every motion passed with the three sitting members in favor and none opposed.

Owners argued mostly from purchase offers, comparable sales, a home's condition or errors on the property record card. The county's appraisers answered with site visits, equity analyses and sales comparisons, usually recommending a smaller cut than the owner sought, or none. The board never adopted an appellant's own requested value outright. On two companion appeals for lots on Gwen Road, it set a figure of its own instead of taking either side's number. Deputy Tax Assessor Chad Phillips told the board it needs to average about seventy appeals a week to finish the 2025 revaluation docket by Dec. 11. The county will add Thursday morning sessions starting Oct. 16 to help.

How the votes went

The three sitting members, Chair Leon Meyers, Saru Salvi and Richal Vanhook, voted unanimously on all twelve appeals heard, including the two continuances. No motion drew a vote against.

From the published minutes.

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Agenda items (12)

Public hearing · 12
  1. 1 Appeal of Lot 2, Willowbrook Road (Harold L. Sykes II)
    Public hearing Tax rate and revaluation
    The owner sought a cut from $150,400 to $50,000, citing offers from companies wanting to buy the vacant 4-acre parcel. The county said steep terrain and a stream left most of the site unusable and recommended $90,200; the board accepted that figure.
    Reduced to $90,200
  2. 2 Appeal of 5311 Buckhorn Rd (Harold L. Sykes II)
    Public hearing Tax rate and revaluation
    The owner sought a cut from $358,100 to $230,000, citing a $187,000 purchase offer. The county left the home's value alone but cut the land for its drop-off and an unusable strip along the road, to $300,000; the board accepted that figure.
    Reduced to $300,000
    • 5311 Buckhorn Rd · no matching parcel on file
    • Pin 9831879865 · Sykes Harold L II · assessed $300,000
  3. 3 Appeal of 6157 Moinear Lane (Xudong Sui)
    Public hearing Tax rate and revaluation
    The owner sought a cut from $1,391,100 to $1,071,630 based on comparable sales, which the county called inadmissible because they postdated the Jan. 1, 2025 valuation date. The board continued the appeal so the owner can submit valid comparables and the county can address neighborhood pricing.
    Continued to a later meeting
    • 6157 Moinear Ln · no matching parcel on file
    • Pin 9881263271 · Sui Xudong · assessed $1,363,600
  4. 5 Appeal of 417 Ridgecrest Drive (Igor Ivanisevic)
    Public hearing Tax rate and revaluation
    The owner sought a cut from $956,000 to $866,900, an earlier county figure based on a smaller measured area. He argued the home, built in 1969, hadn't been renovated in 20 years and shouldn't be compared to lakefront sales. The county said a corrected measurement supports $956,000 and recommended no change; the board agreed.
    Board kept the value at $956,000, no change
    • 417 Ridgecrest Dr · no matching parcel on file
    • Pin 9799072948 · Ivanisevic Igor · assessed $956,000
  5. 6 Appeal of 103 Bristol Drive (Brigitta Adell Shouppe)
    Public hearing Tax rate and revaluation
    The owner argued the home's condition and deferred maintenance justified a change, though the requested figure of $620,000 was above the current $611,700 assessment. The county said the comparables submitted came from mismatched neighborhoods and recommended no change; the board agreed.
    Board kept the value at $611,700, no change
    • 103 Bristol Dr · no matching parcel on file
    • Pin 9787095823 · Shouppe Brigitta Adell · assessed $628,800
  6. 7 Appeal of 202 Gwen Road (Walter Lee Caviness III)
    Public hearing Tax rate and revaluation
    The owner sought a cut from $97,100 to $65,993, pointing to the assessed value of a neighboring lot on Gwen Road. The county said that lot is more than twice the size and carries a lower per-acre rate, and recommended no change. The board set its own figure, $87,400, adopting neither side's number.
    Reduced to $87,400
    • 202 Gwen Rd · no matching parcel on file
    • Pin 9875305308 · Caviness Walter Lee III · assessed $87,400
  7. 8 Appeal of 208 Gwen Road (Walter Lee Caviness III)
    Public hearing Tax rate and revaluation
    The owner sought a cut from $100,500 to $72,940, again pointing to the same neighboring lot on Gwen Road. The county gave the same size-based rebuttal and recommended no change. The board set its own figure, $90,500.
    Reduced to $90,500
    • 208 Gwen Rd · no matching parcel on file
    • Pin 9875305418 · Caviness Walter Lee III · assessed $90,500
  8. 9 Appeal of Lot 2, Dodson's (James Fest Whitfield)
    Public hearing Tax rate and revaluation
    The owner sought a cut from $192,200 to $100,000, arguing the parcel is vacant land. The county said the 2.16-acre lot, used for a neighboring farm's hay and grazing, was already valued on that basis and recommended no change; the board agreed.
    Board kept the value at $192,200, no change
  9. 10 Appeal of 6421 Heartwood Drive (Blair L. Pollock)
    Public hearing Tax rate and revaluation
    The owner sought a cut from $575,800 to $437,000, citing incorrect square footage and mismatched land comparables on the property card. A site visit corrected several measurements and the county recommended $548,600, short of the owner's figure; the board accepted it.
    Reduced to $548,600
    • 6421 Heartwood Dr · no matching parcel on file
    • Pin 9871530365 · Pollock Blair L · assessed $548,600
  10. 11 Appeal of 7206 Sedgewood Road (Lauren Bowers Brown)
    Public hearing Tax rate and revaluation
    The owner sought a cut from $918,900 to $825,000, citing the 35-year-old home's age and deferred maintenance. A site visit found the condition warranted a lower grade, and the county recommended $851,000, short of the owner's figure; the board accepted it.
    Reduced to $851,000
    • 7206 Sedgewood Rd · no matching parcel on file
    • Pin 9880588279 · Bowers Brown Lauren · assessed $851,000
  11. 12 Appeal of 6602 Fox Trail (Charles B. Riggs Jr.)
    Public hearing Tax rate and revaluation
    The owner sought a cut from $168,700 to $128,000, citing an abandoned trailer next door, worn siding, a leaking fireplace, and a roof, steps and fence needing repair. The county's site visit found the condition typical for a 27-year-old home and recommended no change; the board agreed.
    Board kept the value at $168,700, no change
    • 6602 Fox Trl · no matching parcel on file
    • Pin 9835131986 · Riggs Charles B Jr · assessed $168,700
  12. 13 Appeal of 5809 Crimson Court (Kerri A. Bray)
    Public hearing Tax rate and revaluation
    The owner sought a cut from $527,400 to $400,000, citing Zillow and Redfin estimates but no comparable sales. A site visit found a patio previously recorded as a deck, and the county's own figure fell to $525,700. The board continued the appeal to let the county review comparables the owner presented at the hearing.
    Continued to a later meeting
    • 5809 Crimson Ct · no matching parcel on file
    • Pin 9835598412 · Bray Kerri A · assessed $446,200

Agenda changes

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