Von Dohren v. Berks County Board of Assessment Appeals

LASH, J,

The appellants, Craig P. Von Dohren and Barry L. Von Dohren (landowners), have appealed the decision of the Berks County Board of Assessment Appeals (board) directing a rollback from the preferential use assessment to full market value assessment of real estate owned by landowners, pursuant to the Pennsylvania Farm Land and Forest Land Assessment Act of 1974 (Act 319), commonly known as the Clean and Green Act, 72 P.S. §5490.1 et seq. The board found that more than two acres of property owned by landowners was being used commercially as a self-storage business. As such, the business…