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| By Natasha Clark Assistant Managing Editor LONGMEADOW The Longmeadow Select Board has voted to keep all property at a single tax rate in town, rather than adopt a split tax rate for residential properties versus commericial and industrial. The new rate will be $15.53 per thousand of assessed value up 27 cents from last year. According to Longmeadow Assistant Assessor Robert Leclair only about four percent of Longmeadow is commerical/industrial use. He said a split tax rate would not raise any additional revenue. "It would shift some of the burden to the commercial and industrial [businesses]," Leclair said. "The amount that it reduces [for residents], most people that are involved in the process see it as being so slight as compared to the increase on the commercial [side]." He said usually when a town has around 20-25 percent commercial and industrial properties a split tax rate makes more of a difference. |