Comments on: Send A Tax Asessement, People Show Up To Meeting

By: Old Timer

Old Timer — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:18:26 +0000

On the assesor’s website they claim your taxes will go down if your assesment went up less than 19%. Most on my street went up about 11% with the big increase being land value.

By: Secondhand Rose

Secondhand Rose — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:30:28 +0000

They can certainly postpone the reval; didn’t Esposito postpone it for nearly 10 years? If he can do it, so can Moccia.

By: bill h

bill h — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:23:36 +0000

Why doesn’t the city just postpone the revaluation until next year? it will cost more, and the state law says it has to be done, but the state law says it has to be based on fair market value which the City Assessor admits is impossible to establish this year. Drastic times call for drastic measures. Please don’t screw half the city with a flawed reval. It’s just not fair, and Duff could surely argue in Hartford for an exemption for Norwalk because of the bad timing.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:49:17 +0000

We were told by old timers in town that the hearings are useless and the city never lowers the assessment no matter how much evidence you give them. Is this a big waste of time?

By: anon

anon — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:42:18 +0000

This reval is a disaster. Half the houses on my street have gone down in assessed value, and the other half have gone up by 40-50%. Some of the houses that went down had improvements, and some of the ones that went up had no improvements at all. The answers you get from the staff are all over the place, and the consultants the city hired seem to be frustrated by the city staff getting in the way of the reval procedure.
There needs to be an investigation, and legal action. Something smells funny down at city hall.

By: angry taxpayer

angry taxpayer — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:58:03 +0000

There seems to be no leadership on tax policy in this city.

The trend from this latest reval is to shift the burden from stable middle class neighborhoods, where taxes have decreased, to low-income areas that are improving but are still very fragile communities. Those of us who have chosen to move into these fragile neighborhoods, where a strong middle class and owner-occupied presence is needed to balance the slumlord over-occupied and often decrepit housing, are now being penalized by the city for our risk-taking urban pioneering. It is unfair, and it is the beginning of a middle-class flight from these borderline neighborhoods just at a time when these communities need that stability. We have worked hard to reduce crime, remove abandoned vehicles, clean our streets, report zoning violations, help our neighbors in need, and overall improve the quality of life for everyone regardless of income and race.

Yet our properties, which are worth less than similar properties in more stable areas, are being valued as if the location is not important.

And lets not even get started on the late letters that came out 3 days before Christams. It all smacks of deceit and betrayal by a city agency that we entrust to be fair.

Shame on the Common Council and the Mayor for not speaking up about this.