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"UNDAUNTED BY INACCESSIBILITY | to information, homeowner Betty Griffin takes an outside look‘ at the tite of Canadian Occidental |
_ Hooker Chemicals), one of the: three. North Van District tadustries whose property values she. maintains are assessed way too: ‘low ta

Taxes watchdog

None “ot the executives from the three’ North
- Vancouver. industries had even seen her

~ before, But there, they all were, sitting in the
o

. Court: of ‘Revision mday, listening to the
- plucky Httle retired school teacher reeling off
facts and figures to support her appeal that the
companies’ property tax assessments are too
ow.

Betty Griffin kept it attack against “what she
up for almost an hour anda considered to be the
half’ as she delivered her preferential

‘Canadian

silenced.
hear’

treatment

afforded by the assessors to
North Van District's in-
dustrial heavyweights —
‘Occidental
(Hooker Chemicals)
Mohawk Oil and ERCO.

She refused
when * informed
the court did not.want, to
her: giving. “com-
parisons - ‘between: the
companies’ asseasments, of

‘to be.

fakes on the |

previous years, ‘countering’
by ‘reciting.a section from:
the Assessment Act.
During” her ° evidence,
which she ‘read. from ‘a 20-
page. presentation;:
called representatives from.”
the industries | forward as
witnesses in support of her:
appeal that the companies *.
are’being let off the hook at"
a: time: when: homeowners |

she.

‘company’s

face . massive | aasessmient

increases . based on their

property values... .
She ‘asked™ Hooker's:
Calgary secretary-treasurer-’
whether’ the $40 -million
value.’ assessed ‘on, the .
‘Maplewood |
‘plant, would be accepted as |“
a purchase price - for the--
‘operation at. a time when.

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