INDIANAPOLIS -- Feeling squeezed by soaring property tax bills, some homeowners hope a not-so-subtly themed event will alert politicians to their plight.

Residents of the city's Broad Ripple area plan to run a lemonade stand Saturday morning at Crestview Avenue and 60th Street, saying they wanted to do something with the figurative lemons they were handed in this year's bills.

Organizers have invited members of the Indianapolis mayor's administration, hoping to discuss ways to prevent similar increases in the future, 6News' Julie Pursley reported.

"Our taxes have increased 60 percent -- which I know in comparison to others is low; it's 200 to 300 percent in some areas -- but we will feel the crunch," said one of the rally's organizers, Michele Dessauer.

Statewide, property tax bills were expected to rise an average of 24 percent this year, but increases have been much higher in parts of Marion County, whose residents are just getting their bills.

Dawn McCord, a hairstylist who works from her Broad Ripple home, said she loves her neighborhood but might find it difficult to stay because of rising property taxes.

"This can't keep going on like this," McCord said. "We can't have a raise every couple of years."

Thanks to a bill the Legislature passed this year, the state will give property tax rebates to payers -- an action that was expected to effectively lower the average 24 percent increase to about 9 percent. However, taxpayers must pay their bills in full and receive the rebates later -- possibly in January or February.

The lemonade stand is scheduled to be open at 9 a.m. Saturday.