Tax notices with newly assessed property values are now reaching Buncombe County homeowners, causing sticker shock for many, with some increases upward of 100%.
In the upscale Grove Park/Town Mountain area, former Asheville Mayor Lou Bissette, 82, saw the valuation of his longtime home on Old Toll Road rise from $970,100 to nearly $1.7 million, a 75% increase.
“This may make me go on to the (retirement) home,” he joked…