For its recipients, Arizona’s Historic Property Tax Reclassification is a pretty great deal. Homeowners who qualify get their assessment ratios slashed from 10% to 5%, cutting their property tax bills in half. This map shows the residential properties in Pima County that receive this benefit. If you zoom in and click on an individual parcel, the map should display that property’s street address and parcel number. For a re-sizable window in a separate tab, click here.
For more on what it takes to qualify for the Historic Property Tax Reclassification, and how to apply, click here.
Really cool!
Thanks!
Luke, nice GIS work. Can you lead me to the data you used to identify Tucson properties enrolled in the program?
Thanks, Jonathan. What’s shown here is all parcels with a residential use code and a legal class of 6. (Class 6 properties are the ones that get assessed at the 5% ratio. While this classification also includes foreign trade zones, enterprise zones, and a few other programs, the only residential properties under it are the historic ones.) Use codes and legal classes for each parcel can be found in the attribute table of Pima County’s main parcel shapefile, called ‘paregion’. This file is available for download on the Pima County GIS Data FTP Server.