Judge sets assessment appeal dates for Pittsburgh, Mount Oliver
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Pittsburgh and Mount Oliver property owners will have three chances to challenge their old and new assessment numbers in the coming months.
Those opportunities will be spelled out in a letter that Allegheny County officials have agreed, albeit reluctantly, to mail to residents of both communities. The letter from the county's Office of Property Assessment would be sent out next week, County solicitor Michael Wojcik said today.
City and Mount Oliver property owners will have until Feb. 15 to schedule an informal hearing on their new property values. Those same residents will have until April 2 to sign up for formal appeals of those values that will go into effect in 2013.
April 2 also is the deadline for challenging their current values, which will be used again this year to calculate millage rates and tax bills.
Formal appeals are quasi-judicial proceedings overseen by hearing officers from the county's independent Board of Property Assessment Appeals and Review.
Common Pleas Court Senior Judge R. Stanton Wettick Jr., who is overseeing the controversial $11 million reassessment project, met Thursday and today with county officials and lawyers involved in the case to set the timetable for appeals and to draw up the letter. The final wording of the document will be up to Judge Wettick, who was reviewing the text today.
First Published January 20, 2012 12:00 am
