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By CHRIS LLOYD

RECOMMENDATIONS
that the taxation
assessments of all
homes in West Van-
couver should be
lowered are almost
certain to be made by
the area assessor when
the court of revision
begins appeal hearings.

North Shore Assessments,
Administrative Officer Ri
Witdoeck told the News
Friday he would probably
make the recommendation

January 24, 1982

Vancouver is still being
examined while a decision
on whether to request lower
assessments for certain
North Van areas is being
considered.

The office has received an
unprecedented number of
notices appealing residential
assessments — 4,431 by
Friday, with more still
arriving by mail which would
be considered if mailed by
January 20. Of that total,

almost 50 per cent of the
appeals — 2,005 — are from
West Vancouver residents.

The highest number of
appeals previously received
by the office in any one year
was 1,400 in 1978, the year
the ‘‘actual value”’
assessment system was
introduced.

This year’s rebellion,
general throughout the
Lower Mainland, arises over
anger that real estate prices
have been declining steadily
and are out of line with
property assessments made

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Record number of appeals lodged

at the outset of hearings.
He added that the trend of
real estate values in North

last September.

Witdoeck said that any
recommendation by his
office, as well as general
appeals lodged by West Van
and North Van _ District
councils against the
assessments of all homes in
their municipalities, would
be presented at the outset of
court of recision hearings.

If such appeals were
granted, which he considers

quite possible, it would
invalidate the need _ to
consider individual appeals
within those districts,

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thereby reducing the volume
of work for the court of
revision.

With so many individual
appeals, Witdoeck predicted
there would be chaos at the
court of revision if all were
considered individually.

“It creates chaos for us
even to prepare them,” he
said.

Witdoeck thought it likely
that the lodging of mass
appeals for entire areas may
have prompted many in-
dividual appeals from

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THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

NV Ci
goes
gunnin
for
drydock
taxes

BURRARD  /Yarrows’
huge floating drydock
which was built in
Japan would be con-
sidered as imported
real estate, if North
Vancouver City
Council is successful in
its search for more tax
revenues.

By a 43 vote, council
narrowly decided at its
Monday meeting to ask the
provincial government for
an exception to its legislation
that drydocks are tax
exempt, by placing the
facility on the tax roll.

Though those opposed to
the request fear such a move
would result in loss of local
jobs, other aldermen are
already wringing their hands
at the uses City could make
with the extra tax dollars.

Exact estimates of
possible tax

the
increase that
would face the Burrard
Yarrows Corporation —
North Vancouver City's

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