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Vantage to Pomona Heights Chapter 4 230 kV Transmission Line Project FEIS Environmental Consequences PAGE 4-244 • Setback distance, ROW landscaping, shield of visual and aural effects, and integration of the ROW into the neighborhood can significantly reduce or eliminate the impacts of transmission structures on sales prices. • Although appreciation of property does not appear to be affected, proximity to a transmission line can sometimes result in increased selling times for adjacent properties. • Sales-price effects are more complex than they have been portrayed in many studies. Even grouping adjacent properties may obscure results. • Effects of a transmission line on sales process of properties diminish over time and all but disappear in five years. • Opinion surveys of property values and transmission lines may not necessarily overstate negative attitudes, but they understate or ignore positive attitudes. The EPRI (2003) study points out that one of the difficulties in determining the impact of property values is the wide range of methodologies used to measure impacts. Unique project characteristics that need to be taken into consideration when assessing the potential effects of transmission line structures on property values include the type and height of the structures, the distance and view from the potentially affected property, intervening topography and vegetation, the property market, and type of landscape involved.