Kellogg Mall Associates v. Board of County Commissioners

607 P.2d 1330, 227 Kan. 231, 1980 Kan. LEXIS 225
CourtSupreme Court of Kansas
DecidedMarch 1, 1980
DocketNo. 50,040
StatusPublished

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Kellogg Mall Associates v. Board of County Commissioners, 607 P.2d 1330, 227 Kan. 231, 1980 Kan. LEXIS 225 (kan 1980).

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The opinion of the court was delivered by

McFarland, J.:

Kellogg Mall Associates, plaintiff-appellant, is the owner-developer of Towne East Shopping Center in Wichita and challenges the Sedgwick County Assessor’s 1976 appraised valuation of said property. The appraised valuation was affirmed by the Sedgwick County Board of Equalization, the State Board of Tax Appeals (sitting as a state board of equalization), and the district court of Sedgwick County. Kellogg Mall Associates, hereinafter referred to as taxpayer, brings this appeal.

Towne East occupies two tracts of land (referred to as Tract 1 and Tract 5), and both tracts are involved in this appeal. With this explanatory statement we turn to the Board of Tax Appeal’s complained-of order of April 28, 1977:

[232]*232ORDER OF BOARD OF TAX APPEALS
“5. That Appellant, Kellogg Mall Associates, is the owner-developer of the improvements which comprise what is known as Towne East shopping center in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas and is the lessee of the land on which those improvements are located from Chrysler Realty Corporation.
“6. That the 1976 appraised value of the property, which is the subject of this appeal, represents the fair market value of that property as asserted by Sedgwick County and as stipulated to by Appellant for the purpose of this hearing only.
“7. That the improvements on Appellant’s property known as Tract 5 and bearing tax key no. C-37292 (main shopping area tract) was appraised at a 100% valuation of $13,485,100.00. That the appraisal was arrived at generally by multiplying one-half the number of square feet in the improvements by $38.10; then adding values for escalators and elevator shafts; and, then discounting the total by 16% for unfinished space. That the average square foot value for the improvements, as appraised, is approximately $17.00.
“8. That the land on Appellant’s property known as Tract 5 and bearing tax key no. C-37292 (main shopping area tract) was appraised at a 100% valuation of $3,274,566.00 which valuation averages $1.65 per square foot.
“9. That the improvements on Appellant’s property known as Tract 1 and bearing key no. C-37292-0004 (Dillard’s) was appraised at 100% valuation of $3,120,933.30 resulting in a square foot average valuation of approximately $17.50.
“10. That the land on Appellant’s property known as Tract 1 and bearing key no. C-37292-0004 (Dillard’s) was appraised at a 100% valuation of $1,076,933.30 resulting in a per square foot average valuation of $1.84. Appellant is requesting the appraised valuation for 1976 to be reduced to the following amounts:
“A. Improvements Tract 5 Key No. C-37292
623,008 square feet of unfinished space as of January 1, 1976 at $7.00 per square foot (which has the effect of leaving the unfinished space in the total valuation at an average of $2.00 per square foot) added to 180.000 square feet of mall area at $6.00 per square foot for a total 100% valuation of $5,728,072.00.
“B. Land Tract 5 Key No. C-37292
45 acres at $1.00 a square foot for a total 100% appraised valuation of $1,960,200.00.
“C. Improvements Tract 1 Key No. C-37292-0004
179.000 square feet at $9.00 per square foot for a 100% appraised valuation of $1,611,000.00.
“D. Land Tract 1 Key No. C-37292-0004
13.431 acres at $1.00 per square foot for a 100% appraised valuation of $585,054.36.
“11. APPELLANT ASSERTS:
“A. That the shopping centers known as Pawnee Plaza, The Mall, Twin Lakes, and Prairie Village all located in Wichita, Sedgwick County, [233]*233Kansas, while not identical to Appellant’s property, are sufficiently similar to be considered comparables.
“B. That the appraised fair market valuations for the centers referred to above as Pawnee Plaza, The Mall, Prairie Village, and Twin Lakes were arrived at by the Sedgwick County Assessor’s office by totalling the valuations of various areas of the centers which were appraised separately, such as but not limited to, separate appraisals for mall areas, unfinished space, and store areas.
“C. That the methods and procedures used by the Sedgwick County Assessor’s office in appraising Towne East were not the same as those used for the other shopping centers referred to above.
“D. That the 1976 valuations for the comparable shopping centers referred to above as Pawnee Plaza, Twin Lakes, Prairie Village, and The Mall do not reflect their fair market values for the year 1976 and that said properties are undervalued.
“E. That in order for the statutory and constitutional requirements of uniformity and equality in appraisement and assessment for tax purposes to be met, the appraised valuation for Appellant’s property should be reduced to values' commensurate with the aforementioned shopping centers in Sedgwick County.
“F. Appellant stipulated, for the purposes of this appeal only, that the valuations placed on its property for the year 1976 by the Sedgwick County Assessor’s office represented its fair market value and Appellant offered no evidence that the valuations exceeded fair market value. The foregoing stipulation was entered into by Appellant only for the reason that the main legal basis of its claim for relief in this matter is that the statutory and constitutional requirements of appraising all real property uniformly and equally at fair market value were not adhered to by the Sedgwick County Assessor’s office and that such actions by the Sedgwick County Assessor’s office were therefore, arbitrary, oppressive and discriminatory, constituting fraud upon the rights of the Appellant.
“12. SEDGWICK COUNTY ASSERTS:
“A. That as to the improvements on Tract 5, the County Assessor’s office at the time of appraisal allowed 16% depreciation factor for unfinished space.
“B. That the property in question was personally inspected by person, or persons from the office of the Sedgwick County Assessor who appraised and assessed said property at the time of its valuation.
“C. The position of Sedgwick County is that the properties suggested by the appellant as comparable to the instant property are not comparable with the property of the taxpayer and there is, in fact, no comparable property in Sedgwick County, Kansas.
“D. That at the time the Sedgwick County Assessor appraised the taxpayer’s property for fair market value, the County Assessor considered the factors as required by K.S.A. 79-503.
“E. That the assessed value of the appellant’s property, as well as other properties located within Sedgwick County, Kansas, is thirty percent (30%) of the fair market value as determined by the Sedgwick County Assessor.
[234]*234“F.

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