I'll offer my 2 cents worth. Imho, the sunrise powerlink (if approved) won't cause any significant depreciation to occur in CV by itself. Frankly, a lot of these negative landmarks are already part of Torrey Hills :)…At most if would affect a few select communities which frankly are already affected being in an undesirable location right next to power lines. Good locations in Torrey Hills or for that matter, the rest of CV, are still good locations. Depreciation, though, will most likely occur….just due to other factors (economy related). But I don't you'll get the extra drop just because of this power link, unless you really want to buy in the communities right next to power lines.
As far as resale right now, I can tell you the home being sold in SeaRidge, on the corner of e. ocean air is having a tough time,
because this one has HV line towers right behind it. And funny thing is, this community is considered to be in a fire hazard zone by several homeowners insurance companies.. But if you go take a look at this home, you would understand why it's such a problem child, and not representative of the rest of Torrey Hills or CV. The house looks great, but the location is absolutely terrible. Never mind that you probably can see the ocean from your front yard, you can hear the crackle of the power lines behind you. And the owner evidently forgot that electricity and water don't mix when he/she decided to put a pool in there. Perhaps I'm just the paranoid parent I am, but I wouldn't want to get paid to live in that home, let alone buy it.
But as far as the rest of the community, these power lines (and other interesting "landmarks" that I discuss later) have not thwarted people from buying in Torrey Hills or the rest of CV for that matter,both pre-bubble economy, and post-bubble economy.
Just to give you a background, part of Torrey Hills use to be SDGE land that was sold to developers if I'm not mistaken. There are a lot of power lines in particular areas, a few of the communities run really close (and I mean really close) to HV lines on 40+feet mast towers. In addition, there are plenty of places when HV are buried in the ground, as you can tell from the red cone markers that warn you not to dig there. In addition, a petroleum pipeline and a natural gas line also runs near the switching station, as marked by the yellow colored cones that warn you not to dig there. Most of the communities are far away from this, and the only issue is really it's an eye-sore. My understanding of the sunrise power link is that it will add additional lines to existing towers and/or require some of these existing towers to be replaced with more towers alone the route. The presumption would be though that SDGE would need to bury the lines where SDGE currently has parts of the HV links buried… Unlike other areas(Ramona/RP/etc) which are protesting because SDGE is adding new lines, in Torrey Hills, lines already exist. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if SDGE makes some concessions with CV to bury additional lines to make the sunrise link go through, which would be aesthetically appealing to residents (they won't be able to bury the switching points though). Personally, if you're concerned about EMF and any possible associations to leukemia, I'm not sure that having lines buried 7-8 feet below you would be better than having lines that are 40+ feet above you…. But that's another topic for discussion.
BTW: since we're on the topic of special landmarks in Torrey Hills, I might add there is a nice cell phone tower right behind torrey hills park and torrey hills elementary school, which judging by the way it looks, is used by all of the major cell phone carriers. The T1 backhaul which carries the cell phone calls to a traditional switch is probably not a land-based line, but probably uses a microwave link, based on some of acthe equipment that is positioned around the tower. If one were to be concerned about cell phone radiation from towers, you shouldn't be living in torrey hills, because cell phone tower is pretty much in the center of a good portion of the Torrey Hills community.
That was actually one of my wife's and I's concern, prior to moving in…and we almost backed out because of it. However, being it that my wife works at qualcomm (and I use to work at qualcomm as well), where we were(are) routinely blasted daily with cell phone radiation in labs and roofs at much closer range and intensity, it didn't seem to be that much of our concern. Just to be sure, we did grab a few test buddies in this industry to do a measurement of radiation from our home, and it was pretty much a joke. …Even if they do find this to be a medical concern in the future, I'm sure our tumors will be from yapping on the cell phones near our brain, versus what comes out of the cell phone tower a couple of hundred yards away and a few yard up. The only other concern was the microwave links I mentioned, which supposedly could lead to infertility if exposed to people. Well, I proved that wasn't a problem recently. I do notice though, that it's rare I get a dropped call from my cell when used at home 🙂
