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Wiil Tax Assessors be using drones to enforce residential property tax?

2011-12-31

A post on sUAS Newsa blog tracking the "small unmanned aviation system industry"we read about the possibility of drone aircraft being used to enforce residential property tax.

Citing a recent court ruling in Arkansas that "has approved the use of aerial imagery to collect data on property sizes," and making reference to the already-controversial state deployment of aerial surveillance tools, sUAS suggests that drones could someday be used to manage a near-realtime catalog of local property expansions, transfers, and other tax-relevant land alterations.

Posted by:Water Modem

#8 This why God invented DAISY AIR GUNS, HOBBY ROCKETS, + RC FLYING AIRPLANES for pre-teen + teenage Boyz.

D *** NG IT, IFF ONLY I WERE 3-1/2 to 4.0 DECADES YOUNGER!

AIR RAID, AIR RAID, PEARL HARBOR - THIS NO DRILL, HOBBY CLUB, I REPEAT NOT A DRILL!

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-12-31 23:57

#7 Assessments will never go down. Better to rent. Then they will get you for water sewer fees. Trash, phone service, anything to squeeze ya. I wish they would go after the movie stars. $100 million and $45 million for professional athletes.
Greedy CEO's chump change. Well if you live in slum you don't have to worry about all that great American dream stuff. Oh, I am just ranting. With my luck the nekkid sunbathing would be in the 300 pound range.

Posted by: Dale 2011-12-31 19:25

#6 Property taxes should be raised on the location value, not what's built on it.

We used to have that kind of attitude till developers started working with local assessors to drive up the price of farm land to force the farmers off of their land cause the return on the farming couldn't pay the enhanced tax bills. States intervened to stop the process to keep active farm land priced according to its use rather than potential at the hands of developers.

Posted by: P2Kontheroad 2011-12-31 10:55

#5 Cities have been using aerial photography for years for zoning purposes. And since they have so many helicopters used for many things, at least in larger cities, this would be for smaller towns, or for state tax assessments.

None of which requires "real time" anything. Once a year is sufficient. The only "real time" aerial use is by police and traffic control agencies.

As an added note, commercial airports hate this stuff, because even with very restrictive flight paths for low level aircraft like helicopters, pilots do not like airspace competition. And the FAA listens to pilots.

(I remember when someone proposed a football stadium right next to Sky Harbor, justifying the risk by saying that "pilots would only have to take off at a 15 degree higher angle and it will be perfectly safe." A major airline pilot got on a call-in radio show, and was so enraged that they had to bleep half of what he screamed.)

Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-12-31 10:32

#4 Property taxes should be raised on the location value, not what's built on it.

Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2011-12-31 10:01

#3 You'd think they'd pick up VDH's comments about single family dwellings in CA being used as duplexes or triplexes for 'migrant workers' by the owners. They could use Google street pics to assess the 'homestead' as commercial rental property and adjust the bill accordingly.

Posted by: P2Kontheroad 2011-12-31 07:48

#2 Of Course! This is old news since the "War on Drugs" got a ruling that you don't need a search warrant if it is visible from the air.
Miami-Dade county,Fl uses helicopters to look for improvements they can then tax. They flew over the old fish farm at less than 100ft hanging out of the door taking photos. Then the property tax bill comes you are only using 1/2 of the property for agriculture the rest we are going to tax at the residental rate.
I also had a black blackhawk with no insignia fly over the farm one day same MO I just waved at the nice DEA men.

Posted by: Choluse Graling8806 2011-12-31 07:01

#1 Well that'll put a stop to nekkid sunbathing in yer backyard...

Posted by: Glenmore 2011-12-31 01:54

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