Does anybody really think that assessed value
is equivalent to fair market
value?
is equivalent to fair market
value?
” Greene officials will
not disclose their financial negotiations with landowners but say they are
offering 50 percent of the assessed value of each acre that the pipe runs
through.”
The subject property
almost doesn’t matter. To offer half of a property’s assessed value is, on the
face, criminal and unethical. Further investigation should bring more answers,
and hopefully the County has been portrayed unfairly in this DP article.
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