Five more property owners are seeking reductions to tax assessments following a revaluation that saw New Canaan’s Grand List increase 23.6%. The New Canaan Field Club on Smith Ridge Road and commercial property owners on Elm Street, Main Street and South Avenue in downtown New Canaan filed appeals this month in state Superior Court. An attorney representing the Field Club in an April 18 filing that the $4,226,110 assessment is “grossly excessive, disproportionate and unlawful.”
The Field Club appealed to the New Canaan Board of Assessment Appeals but “the Board elected not to conduct an appeal hearing relating to this commercial, industrial, utility or apartment property with assessed value in excessive of one million dollars,” attorney Michael D. Reiner of Farmington-based Greene Law, P.C. said in the complaint. “A tax was laid on the aforesaid property/properties which tax has been or will be computed on an assessment which, under all circumstances, is manifestly excessive, unlawful and could not have been arrived at except by disregarding the statutes for determining the taxation and valuation of the Premises,” the complaint said. The other appealing parties are (owner—address—assessment):
Cherry Street West LLC — 156 Cherry St.
