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Somerville (/ ˈ s ʌ m ər v ɪ l / SUM-ər-vil) is a city located directly to the northwest of Boston, and north of Cambridge, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census , the city had a total population of 81,045 people.
The largest property tax exemption is the exemption for registered non-profit organizations; all 50 states fully exempt these organizations from state and local property taxes with a 2009 study estimating the exemption's forgone tax revenues range from $17–32 billion per year.
Chapter 61 is a voluntary current use program designed by the Massachusetts Legislature to tax real property in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts at its resources value rather than its highest and best use (development) value. Landowners who enroll their land in the program receive property tax reductions in exchange for a lien on their ...
Towns have an open town meeting or representative town meeting form of government; cities, on the other hand, use a mayor-council or council-manager form. Based on the form of government, as of 2023, [ 1 ] there are 292 towns and 59 cities in Massachusetts.
Industrialist James F. Hathaway of Somerville, Massachusetts refused to pay a municipal tax on his corporation stock and would periodically threaten to pack up and leave town if the city insisted on pressing for payment, in a game of bluff that sometimes led to the city waiving the tax, but other times led to Hathaway's jailing. [98]
During a Special City Council Meeting [3] on May 19, 2005, the Shannon Hills City Council passed two ordinances [4] [5] to approve petitions [6] [7] presented by the owners of Hometex, LLC (Doug Loftin, Thomas Cunningham, and Travis Bull) to form Improvement Districts No. 53 and 54 on Emerald Mountain. Improvement District No. 53 and 54 have ...
This was completed in 1867, and the High School moved into the vacant space. This too was quickly outgrown, and a new Somerville High School was built in 1871, and dedicated in 1872. Also in 1871, the Massachusetts legislature reincorporated Somerville as a city, which was approved by the voters, which was to take effect on January 1, 1872.
At 38, he was the second youngest mayor in Somerville history. He concluded his ninth and final, [3] term as mayor in 2022 after 18 years in office. [1] [4] In 2006, Somerville was recognized by The Boston Globe Magazine as the Best Run City in the Commonwealth. [5] On March 1, 2021, he announced that he would not seek another term as mayor of ...