More than 200 people have appealed the borough’s new property assessments after some tax bills were hiked by hundreds of dollars under a new computer-assisted mass appraisal system that the borough says is more objective and equitable.
The 221 appeals are the most since 2013, when more than 400 were submitted.
The new assessments have led to a flurry of online commenting by people trying to understand why the new assessments valued their property sometimes…
