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Board votes to rescind Presidio Terrace tax sale after residents say they never received notice
Summary
After a full-day hearing, the Board of Supervisors conditionally rescinded the online tax sale of the Presidio Terrace private common area, citing evidence that tax-collection mailings were returned undelivered and that parties of interest were not located by the tax collector’s procedures.
The Board of Supervisors voted 7–4 to conditionally rescind the online tax sale of the Presidio Terrace common area after residents and their counsel argued the Treasurer-Tax Collector’s office knew notices it sent were returned and undertook insufficient additional steps to locate the association and homeowners before auctioning the land.
The dispute stems from a century-old parceling anomaly: Presidio Terrace’s streets, sidewalks and green space were recorded as a separately taxable parcel. Homeowners testified they paid HOA dues and their individual property taxes for decades but were unaware the separate common-area parcel had fallen into tax delinquency after an accountant transition in the 1990s.
Scott Emblidge, attorney for the Presidio Terrace Association, told the…
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