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Harrison appeals board denies property tax abatement for 46 Island Pond Road
Summary
A local appeals panel denied Connie Allen’s request to lower the 2024 assessment on her waterfront property at 46 Island Pond Road, concluding the applicant did not prove the assessor’s $315,000 valuation was manifestly wrong.
Connie Allen, the property owner and appellant, appeared before the Harrison property tax appeals board to challenge a $315,000 assessment for her waterfront lot at 46 Island Pond Road, arguing repeated flooding and neighbor-installed culverts reduced market value.
Allen said she measured her shore frontage and “so it's 200 feet at the shore and a 172 feet at the road,” and presented photos and videos she said show stormwater overtopping the road and flooding parts of her yard. She said a pair of culverts installed by a neighbor directs flow onto her land, that she has piled soil to form a berm, and that a ditch behind her lot is “man made.” Allen also submitted a 1994 septic-installation record she…
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