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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon typpo

Monterey County

Open bendnorman opened this issue 3 years ago • 4 comments

Hello!

I'm putting together some resources for Monterey County. I've found the property assessments and tax rates but the tax rates are in a pdf. Do y'all have any strategies for extracting tax rates from pdfs?

bendnorman avatar Nov 13 '20 19:11 bendnorman

Wow that's... interesting. I spent some time looking at their data on the GIS service and I couldn't pull the tax info out.

rgbkrk avatar Nov 13 '20 20:11 rgbkrk

Welcome Ben, thanks for looking into this!

Monterey's tax collection system is by mptsweb, which is shared with a number of other county tax systems in CA. Yolo, Napa, Sonoma, and Butte can already act as templates, @jamesshannon's work will make it even easier to add this system.

Here is the county's per-parcel tax lookup site: https://common3.mptsweb.com/mbc/monterey/tax/search

typpo avatar Nov 15 '20 21:11 typpo

There are Python packages which will parse PDFs, though I don't have much experience with them.

I'd suggest a Shaepfile. I found a few. You probably want Parcels Data which has 122k records which include the APN. Alternatively Parcel Assessment has 152k records and includes land value.

Then running a scraper against mptsweb.

jamesshannon avatar Nov 16 '20 05:11 jamesshannon

Thanks, everyone! I'll experiment extracting the Tax Rate Areas (TRA) from the PDF then I'll load in Parcel Assessment which has each parcel's TRA.

bendnorman avatar Nov 22 '20 23:11 bendnorman