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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

AVI Home Values Explained at Panel

The Chestnut Hill Community Association is holding its second AVI panel. In this installment, city officials will explain how homes in the Northwest have been valued.

At the Chestnut Hill Community Association's first Actual Value Iniative and real estate tax panel - a panel that included a number of city council members and city officials - many residents asks the same question, a question they couldn't quite get an answer to. The question: How is my home going to be valued under AVI? What method is being used to decide its worth? That question should be answered at the CHCA's second AVI and Real Estate Tax panel on Feb 12. The second discussion will feature the city's chief assessor from the Office of Property Assessment, Richie McKeithen, and the deputy administrator for assessment programs and policy, Marisa Waxman, who will discuss the process used to find the value of the city's homes. CHCA …

Margaret Motheral

12:54 pm on Wednesday, February 6, 2013

When the contaminated Devon project was put together by John O Connell and land he said belonged to Stan Smith and presented by Donna Reed Miller's Office and East Mt Airy Neighbors, East Sydney Street was promised no tax raises for 10 years. The Devon Project gets a 10 year tax abatement even though they destroyed quality of life for E. Sydney Street for years and destroyed health and life of …   more ›

Thursday, October 11, 2012

CHCA Target Bass, Oh, Greene for AVI Panel

The Chestnut Hill Community Association is in talks with several city council members for a panel to educate citizens on how AVI could impact the area.

The Chesntut Hill Community Association continues to talk about bringing in Philadelphia's city council members to talk to residents about the city's AVI plan. At the CHCA's meeting in late September, association president Brien Tilley said they were still looking in to "creating a panel that would provide a wealth of knowledge" to residents about the city's plan to assess property taxes through Mayor Nutter's proposed Actual Value Initiative. "We've reechoed out to several different people who wanted to be part of it," Tilley said. He said that city council members Cindy Bass, Bill Greene and David Oh have all expressed interest in participating in the proposed panel. A date and location for the event is still forthcoming, but Tilley said…

Albert Brown

10:56 am on Sunday, October 14, 2012

An editorial quibble: This has to be one of the most cryptic headlines I've read recently. AVI isn't spelled out until the third paragraph. Out of context, "Bass, Oh, Greene" isn't explained until the fifth paragraph, which says they've "expressed interest in participating." So where does "target" come from?   more ›

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