28carslater t1_j64az07 wrote on January 27, 2023 at 4:48 PM

Reply to comment by 69FunnyNumberGuy420 in 2 Western Pa. school districts shifted money around to raise taxes, Pa. auditor general says by Jumpy-Natural4868

Many would argue the assessment system is broken, in more recent years some of the gov't entities have been spot assessing recent buys effectively punishing the new owners.

That's a fair amount of people there, but something else to remember is much of the new SFH has been in Cranberry and along 68 because the taxes are somewhat tolerable. In this some parts of this county the same properties would have double the taxes and not be feasible to build in the first place.

69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_j64b96o wrote on January 27, 2023 at 4:50 PM

Nobody lives in Cranberry Township. There are fewer than 31k people there, less than 200K in all of Butler County.
 
Low taxes in Cranberry aren't sustainable. Eventually the local authority will have to raise taxes to match the service levels that people there expect, and those people will leave and move to the next cheap suburb where they can pay artificially low taxes. Same as it ever was.