Pettersen v. Town of Fort Ann

*550OPINION OF THE COURT

David B. Krogmann, J.

Petitioners have commenced this CPLR article 78 proceeding to challenge the comprehensive assessment of parcels of the Pilot Knob and Hadlock Pond areas located in the Town of Fort Ann. The petitioners allege the respondents engaged in selective reassessment to the extent that the assessments relating to the above neighborhoods were separately reassessed for 2005 while the remainder of the Town was assessed by a different process known as “trending,” resulting in disproportionately higher assessments for the referenced areas of the Town. It is alleged…