The county promptly asked the judge to reconsider the decision involving Friendship Retirement.
A judge sided with a nonprofit retirement home company over an attempt by Roanoke County to strip its tax exemption.
And the county promptly took the uncommon step of asking Judge Charles Dorsey to reconsider his decision, with a hearing set for Aug. 21.
Friendship Retirement successfully argued that its exemption transferred when it purchased the already tax-exempt Richfield Living property in the county (Richfield paid an annual county service charge of 20% of the taxes that would have been owed.)…