Judge accepts revised county reassessment plan
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Common Pleas Court Judge R. Stanton Wettick accepted a revised reassessment plan from Allegheny County today.
Under the plan, the county would hire a contractor and send notices to property owners in the first quarter of 2010; it would complete the reassessment by 2012. The appeals process would be changed: property owners would have to pay taxes before appealing.
In April, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw out Allegheny County's base-year system, which sets property assessments based on the value of property in 2002, including new construction.
That system, the court ruled, is inherently unconstitutional, because it keeps property values too high in poor communities and too low in rich communities. The court then ordered a new property reassessment and asked Judge Wettick to implement it in a reasonable time frame.
First Published December 4, 2009 9:12 am
