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USA TODAY
TUESDAY 02.03.15
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TAX INCREASES BY THE NUMBERS
2.2%
Average property tax bill
$8,161
Property tax hike in
Ocean County
4.6%
1.7%
Property tax
hike largest
in 3 years
MICHAEL SYMONS @MICHAELSYMONS_
TRENTON New Jersey property taxes increased
at their fastest rate in three years in 2014.
New Jerseys average residential property tax bill,
already the highest in the nation, jumped by 2.2 percent, to $8,161, according to annual property tax data
compiled and released by the state Department of
Community Affairs. The average tab had grown 1.3
percent in 2013, 1.6 percent in 2012 and 2.4 percent in
2011.
Factor in the impact of a delay in property tax credits, which werent paid in 2014, and the increase averaged 8.6 percent, or $646.
Some of the sharpest tax increases occurred in
Shore towns devastated by superstorm Sandy, including 20 percent in Mantoloking, 14 percent in Toms River and 12 percent in Sea Bright. The in-
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Red Bank crossing guard Skip Smith mans his post during a driving snow at Bergen Place and Broad Street in the borough
Monday. Conditions were complicated by a mix of snow, sleet and rain that made roads and walkways dangerously slick.
TODD B. BATES
AND ANDREW FORD
@TODDBBATESAPP AND @ANDREWFORDNEWS
tion unfolding, said David A. Robinson, the New Jersey state climatologist. A lot of water is standing
around, and its going to get brutally
cold through today.
It could be rough on the roads
this morning, he said. Its the kind
of ... thing where you get these slick
spots just kind of coming out of nowhere.
The sudden snow showers hit
Monmouth and Ocean counties
Monday afternoon, but the riskier
issue was the rapidly falling temperatures that led to icy roads,
bridges, parking lots, walkways,
traffic nightmares and accidents.
The sudden icing, and the afternoon snow squall, snarled traffic
across the region Monday, with numerous reports of accidents and
dangerous roads. Conditions were
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