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Board approves property tax exemptions for City of Lancaster and Ephrata Area School District
Summary
The Lancaster County Board of Assessment Appeals approved exemption requests for a City of Lancaster property and an Ephrata Area School District property, setting effective tax years for school, county and municipal levies.
The Lancaster County Board of Assessment Appeals on May 13 approved property-tax exemptions for a City of Lancaster property at 1625 Stony Battery Rd. and for a parcel owned by the Ephrata Area School District at 200 Washington Ave.
Board Member Chandra Mast moved to approve both exemptions and Chairman Lowell Fry seconded the motions. The board recorded the motions as passed. The City of Lancaster exemption (parcel 300-00004-0-0000) is effective beginning with the 2026–2027 school tax year and the 2027 county and municipal tax years; the Ephrata Area School District exemption (parcel 260-24397-0-0000) carries the same effective tax-year schedule.
Why it matters: these exemptions remove the listed parcels from the tax rolls for the specified levies and tax years, reducing assessed-tax obligations for the property owners and shifting tax responsibility for those parcels out of the annual levy calculations. The board's action followed staff presentation and a brief procedural motion.
The motions were recorded as: a motion by Chandra Mast, seconded by Lowell Fry, and approved by the board. No vote tallies beyond "motion passed" were provided in the meeting minutes.
