Power Lines and Property Values: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Urban Lawyer

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 331-347

  Bolton, David R ^a   Sick, Kent A ^b  

^a David R Bolton Inc   (United States)

^b Law Offices of Kent Alan Sick   (United States)

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References (66)

1. David R. Bolton, Properties Near Power Lines and Valuation Issues: Condemnation or Inverse Condemnation?, 1994 INST. ON PLANNING, ZONING, AND EMINENT DOMAIN 13-1.
2. Id. at 13-6,7.
3. Id. at 13-9,10.
4. Id. at 13-15,16.
5. Id. at 13-9 through 13-13.
6. Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceutical, Inc., 509 U.S. 579 (1993); E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. v. Robinson, 923 S.W.2d 549 (Tex. 1995).
7. Council of The American Physical Society, Power Line Fields and Public Health, Public Statement issued Apr. 22, 1995.
8. NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL, POSSIBLE HEALTH EFFECTS OF EXPOSURE TO RESIDENTIAL ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS (1997).
9. NRPB, Electromagnetic Fields and the Risk of Cancer: Supplementary Report by the Advisory Group on Non-Ionizing Radiation (Apr. 12, 1994) 〈http://www. nrpb.org.uk/Absd5-2.htm〉.
10. Working Group Report: Assessment of Health Effects from Exposure to Power-Line Frequency Electric and Magnetic Fields (Christopher J. Portier, Ph.D. & Mary S. Wolfe, Ph.D., eds., June 24, 1998) 〈http://www.niehs.nih.gov/emfrapid/html/ WGReport/Chapter5.html〉.
11. Id.
12. Stanley W. Hamilton & Gregory M. Schwann, Do High Voltage Electric Transmission Lines Affect Property Value?, LAND ECON., Nov. 1, 1995, 436.
13. See Bolton, supra note 1, at 13-10.
14. Hamilton & Schwann, supra note 12.
15. J.R. Cowger et al., Transmission Line Impact on Residential Property, RIGHT OF WAY, Sept./Oct. 1996.
16. Id.
17. Development Strategies, Inc., Value of Residential Property Proximate to High Voltage Overhead Electric Transmission Lines, (1995).
18. Id.
19. Criscuola v. Power Auth. of State of New York, 621 N.E.2d 1195 (N. Y. 1993).
20. Michael Rikon, Electromagnetic Radiation Field Property Devaluation, THE APPRAISAL J., Jan. 1996, at 87.
21. Criscuola, 621 N.E.2d at 652.
22. Rikon, supra note 20, at 89.
23. Arthur Gimmy, The Potential Impact of EMF On Property Values, EMF REG. AND LITIG. INST., New Orleans. (1994).
24. Id.
25. Larry Kokel, Impact of Electric Transmission Lines on Value, Study prepared for LCRA (1997).
26. Id. at 94.
27. Id.
28. Id.
29. Bolton, supra note 1, at 13-17.
30. FLOWER MOUND, TEX., LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE § 3.05(d)(8) (1994).
31. RED OAK, TEX., UNIFIED DEVEL. CODE § B.1.b. (1989).
32. Id.
33. PLANO, TEX., ZONING ORDINANCE § 3.801 (1998).
34. TEX. HEALTH & SAFETY CODE ANN. § 752.004 (West 1992).
35. TEX. HEALTH & SAFETY CODE ANN. § 752.007 (West 1992).
36. TEX. HEALTH & SAFETY CODE ANN. § 752.008 (Vernon 1992)(emphasis added).
37. Moore v. Southwestern Elec. Power Co., 737 F.2d 496 (5th Cir. 1984), cert. denied, 105 S. Ct. 1181 (1985) (emphasis added).
38. Olson v. Central Power and Light Co., 803 S.W.2d 808 (Tex. App. 1991).
39. See Bolton, supra note 1, at 13-14 through 13-16.
40. Criscuola, 621 N.E.2d 1195.
41. Ryan v. Kansas Power & Light Co., 815 P.2d 528 (Kan. 1991).
42. San Diego Gas & Elec. Co. v. Daley, 253 Cal. Rptr. 144 (Cal. Ct. App. 1988).
43. 920 P.2d 669, 55 Cal. Rptr. 2d 724 (Cal. 1996).
44. Id. at 754-55.
45. 80 F.3d 1074 (5th Cir. 1996) (Coker).
46. Id.
47. Id. at 1079 (quoting United States v. Robertson, 354 F.2d 877, 881 (5th Cir. 1996)).
48. 509 U.S. 579 (1993).
49. Coker, 80 F.3d at 1077.
50. APPRAISAL STANDARDS BD. OF THE APPRAISAL FOUND., UNIFORM STANDARDS OF PROF'L APPRAISAL PRACTICE 11 (1995).
51. APPRAISAL INST., THE DICTIONARY OF REAL ESTATE APPRAISAL 171 (3d ed. 1993).
52. APPRAISAL INST., THE APPRAISAL OF REAL ESTATE 87 (11th ed. 1996).
53. RIGHT OF WAY, various issues, 1993 through 1996.
54. LCRA Telecommunications Services (last modified Jan. 11, 1999) 〈http:// www.lcra.org/telecom/fiber.html〉.
55. Gomez Leon v. State, 426 S.W.2d 562 (Tex. 1968).
56. Id. at 565.
57. Bauer v. Lavaca-Navidad River Auth., 704 S.W.2d 107 (Tex. App. 1985).
58. Id. at 109.
59. Id.
60. Id. at 111-13.
61. Id. at 111.
62. Bauer, 704 S.W.2d at 113.
63. Wayne C. Lusvardi, The Flawed Logic of Sales Substitution in the Appraisal of Land Suitable for Habitat Preservation or Mitigation, RIGHT OF WAY, May/June 1997, at 14.
64. Wayne C. Lusvardi, A Critique of the Position Papers on the Valuation of Land Suitable for Habitat Preservation or Mitigation, RIGHT OF WAY, Nov./Dec. 1996, at 23.
65. John P. Dolman & Charles F. Seymour, Valuation of Transportation/Communication Corridors, 46 APPRAISAL J. 515 (1978) (quoting American Right of Way Association, Newsletter, Apr. 1963).
66. John P. Dolman & Charles F. Seymour, Valuation of Transportation/Communication Corridors, 46 APPRAISAL J. 515 (1978) (quoting American Right of Way Association, Newsletter, Apr. 1963).