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Board orders 35% discount on unusable wooded acreage pending county acreage verification
Summary
A family farm owner said roughly 44 acres of his 164-acre tract are too steep or rocky for farming; the board voted to reduce the market value of the affected acreage by 35% subject to county confirmation of the acreage to which the adjustment applies.
Horton Hollis Jr. appealed the market value of his 164-acre farm to the Union County Board of Equalization and Review, saying approximately 44 acres of the parcel are steep, rocky and effectively unusable for crops and should be valued lower than the flat, tillable acreage.
"Our family farm is made up of 164 acres, of which 109.73 acres is open crop land. 54.27 acres of woodland," Horton told the board and asked the panel to account for steep topography on both sides of…
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