Orange county commissioners are facing a massive property tax revolt.  More than 1,200 people showed up for a meeting in February to protest the recent property revaluation.  Last night according to the N&O here:

More than 200 taxpayers packed the Central Orange Senior Center, and
sheriff’s deputies turned away dozens more who came to protest the
recent countywide revaluation.

It appears that many Orange county residents are getting exactly what they asked for and voted for.  The liberal elite in Carrboro and Chapel Hill have passed restrictive land use policies including an urban growth boundary causing housing prices to skyrocket over the last four years since the last revaluation.  

Many residents loved using the power of local government to restrict the supply of land for development and personally profit from by having their home values go up, but now that the tax bills are coming due, they are singing a different tune.

Unfortunately, many residents persist in blaming new residents for the problems that existing residents have caused.

Clementine Self, who lives in the Carrboro end of the Northside
neighborhood, north of Franklin and Main streets, said newcomers to
Chapel Hill and Carrboro were driving up home values, driving up
property taxes, and driving out lifelong residents.

“We cannot afford the taxes that you are asking us to pay,” she said. “We will be in tax closure instead of foreclosure.”