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Anchorage Assembly urges assessor review after steep 2026 property valuation changes
Summary
After months of constituent complaints about large year‑over‑year assessment jumps, the Assembly passed a substitute resolution directing continued review, a limited extension of appeal deadlines and an April report — replacing a broader, less-defined proposal for 'systematic reevaluation.'
The Anchorage Assembly voted unanimously Feb. 3 to approve a substitute resolution asking the municipal assessor to continue reviewing 2026 property valuations and to report back to the Assembly, after an extended debate about unusually large assessment increases. The substitute (AR2026‑34S) replaces language in an earlier draft that would have ordered a statutory “systematic reevaluation.”
Assembly Member Myers, who spoke at length as a realtor and longtime industry participant, told the Assembly he had seen adjacent condominium units with “substantially different, property tax valuation,” and said neighbors had contacted him in large numbers about increases that in some cases reached 30–40 percent.…
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