SAN JOSE — Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone is suing an assessment board that gave the 49ers a multimillion-dollar property tax break he says shortchanged local governments and school districts.
Stone filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the assessment appeals board’s decision to slash the 49ers’ annual property tax bill for Levi’s Stadium by $6 million and give the football team an immediate refund of $36 million — retroactive to August 2014 — from the Santa Clara Unified School District, city of Santa Clara and other government agencies that are supposed to get a cut of the revenue.