Prince William Co, Virginia landowners sue county after Digital Gateway data center project prompts soaring tax bills

[1srelluc]

Prince William landowners sue county after Digital Gateway data center project prompts soaring tax bills

The PW Digital Gateway plans from QTS and Compass Datacenters aim to create 23 million square feet of data centers on roughly 2,100 acres along Pageland Lane near Bristow. The corridor is expected to become the largest of its kind in the world, with the Prince William Board of County Supervisors...

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The lawsuit says Prince William County “used flawed methodology in determining fair market value” of the Pageland residents’ properties by “basing it on future speculative use in conglomeration with the other surrounding parcels and not upon the appropriate standards or upon factual and scientific analysis of each individual parcel’s worth, currently.”

The county, according to the suit, also “failed to follow the Virginia Supreme Court’s definition of fair market value which is defined as, ‘the present actual value of the land, with all its adaptations to general and special uses, and not its prospective or speculative or possible value, based on future expenditures and improvements.’”

The greed being exhibited by all concerned is astounding....From the dem tax and spend county to the landowners themselves wrangling for rezoning.

That said the county needs to follow the law and not base assessments on "what might be".

Data centers are a pox and bring out the worse in everyone.

 

[odanny]

So they have the landowners right where they want them, unable to pay their taxes and forced to sell. That's wrong. Unless you want to be a newly minted millionaire.


For instance, one 76.5-acre parcel, 5305 Pageland Lane, jumped from a more than $1.62 million land assessment in 2023 to over $25 million in 2024, according to county land records. Another parcel, nearly 40 acres at 5211 Pageland Lane, jumped from nearly $920,000 assessment in 2023 to over $12.9 million in 2024.

The ensuing tax bills connected to the latest assessments mean landowners are on the hook for tens of thousands of dollars – and, in at least a couple cases, hundreds of thousands – owed to the county.

 

[1srelluc]

So they have the landowners right where they want them, unable to pay their taxes and forced to sell. That's wrong.


For instance, one 76.5-acre parcel, 5305 Pageland Lane, jumped from a more than $1.62 million land assessment in 2023 to over $25 million in 2024, according to county land records. Another parcel, nearly 40 acres at 5211 Pageland Lane, jumped from nearly $920,000 assessment in 2023 to over $12.9 million in 2024.

The ensuing tax bills connected to the latest assessments mean landowners are on the hook for tens of thousands of dollars – and, in at least a couple cases, hundreds of thousands – owed to the county.

PW County went dem....It's their way of doing things now.

 

[odanny]

PW County went dem....It's their way of doing things now.

Goddamn dems.