Due to a reporting error, a January 30 story on County assessments ["County assessments keep soaring"] failed to put assessment increases in their temporal context: Assessment on a house in White Hall increased at a biennial rate of 41 percent in 2005, not an annual rate as implied. The same house increased at a biennial rate of 10 percent in this year’s assessment, not 37 percent as reported. And, to clarify, the large jump in 2005 followed a sharp decline in the 2003 assessment of the property, a fact that should have been included to give complete context to the large jump in assessment.
Also in that issue, 7 Days ["Chill out on growth," Saturday, January 27 ] misstated Albemarle County’s population growth as 8 percent last year. In fact, the growth was 8 percent from 2000 to 2006.
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