Monterey County

[bendnorman]

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?

[rgbkrk]

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.

[typpo]

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

[jamesshannon]

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.

[bendnorman]

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.