Is your land worth more per acre than the Biltmore?
Or is it just taxed more?
Our Story
Andrew Fletcher (right) is a student, musician, tour guide, urban chicken farmer and community organizer. He is also currently a Independent candidate for Asheville City Council. He is currently enrolled at University of North Carolina at Asheville, where he took Land Economics in the Spring semester of 2022 with Professor Leah Mathews. Project #Worthmore is his Course Project for that class, where the assignment was to create an artifact that would continue to have use after the term ended. The purpose of the tool was to trigger thinking about the nature of tax assessments, and to get people to think about the nature of fairness and equity in how we fund municipal government. He lives in Asheville, NC with eight chickens: Anna, Sunny B, Shrimpinauty, Aegon Targaryhen, Gadget, Ruth Bader Ginsbird, Eggatha Christie and Eggatha Christie and Harriet (pictured, left). He can be reached at [email protected].
- Andrew Fletcher
Sunshine Labs is a division of PRC Applications working towards a brighter future. We use technology and open data to build tools that address community needs, promote open government, and improve civic engagement. When Andrew reached out to us about his idea for Project #Worthmore we were all in and immediately started building a tool that could pull property values from Buncombe County Public Data. The site design came together simultaneously and the rest is history! We're really proud of this site and the work Andrew is doing and hope this starts more conversations about property taxes in our area and beyond.