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Mrs. Griffin had appealed
the property valuations. of |
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(Hooker Chemicals), "an
Mohawk Oils and- ERCQ,. -:
demanding that the Court of:
Revision substantially . in-.

Sessment
would. total ae

‘crease them to a level for’. land, :;-$9;
comparable to those of Poem and,
private homeowners.

However, when the ‘court
announced its decision
Thursday, it confirmed the
assessor's figure for ERCO
and Mohawk and raised the _ residential
Hooker valuation” by less developers

“to! the’ ‘News immediately
afterwards’ that while

ary:
fetched °$31 a square foot,
the... assessment placed ‘3

“Mrs. Griffin declared after
the, -announcement that.the .

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and that she would appeal it’.
in order to overcome what

axation of DOUBLE STANDARD

have “risen cubstantially
every “year, ‘because. the
homes are assessed. on their
“actual value”, they have
decreased’ each.-year. ‘since
1977 on the. Hooker chlorine

cop! es
considers are undervalued ‘atthe expense of omeowners.
assessitierit” office: ‘and she
was confronted by what she
‘calls-intimidation from staff _

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. many homeowners who have .”
. Joined her compaign since
reading about it in the North

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Her call for. industries to

She had maintained that confirmation of. the three.

the assessment figure placed

‘they liad gone up by just 12. 5

on the Hooker plant’ of.

$44,809,350 should be in-
creased to around $200
million, the figure Hooker

per cent for industries.
Her. determination to do
_ something about the

situdtion increased when she
found: information was not

be taxed at least at the same
level as homes has since
become the rallying cry of

industries’ assessments . and.

expects it will not be heard
before June.

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