Case Alert: Connecticut Supreme Court Bars Assessors From Retroactively Reversing Forest Land Status
An assessor can’t take back a forest land classification just because it turns out to be wrong. In Campelli v. Town of Mansfield, a Mansfield property was classified as forest land back in 2005, based on the strength of a certified forester’s report saying it was a 25-acre tract. Sixteen years later, the town’s assessor…