Politics & Government
County Officials Admit Costly Mistake Over Assessing a Whitehall Property
'Obviously, we should have caught it,' county spokeswoman Amie Downs told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Allegheny County officials have admitted that a property containing a townhouse in Whitehall Borough was misclassified for decades as a vacant lot, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported on Friday.
The error in properly assessing the townhouse at 102 Wallace Park Dr. in Whitehall's Wallace (Prospect) Park area has led to possibly thousands of dollars in lost real estate tax revenue for the borough, county and Baldwin-Whitehall School District.
"Obviously, we should have caught it," county spokeswoman Amie Downs said. "No excuses."
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The mistake spans two countywide reassessment processes.
Read the Post-Gazette's full article here.
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