The Impact of Wind Power Projects on Residential Property Values ...

within roughly 150 feet inside <strong>of</strong> 1.5 miles and within a maximum <strong>of</strong> roughly 1150 feet outside
<strong>of</strong> 1.5 miles. 115
115 <strong>The</strong> resolution <strong>of</strong> the raster is 50 feet, so the hypotenuse is 70 feet. If the home is situated in the top left <strong>of</strong> a
raster cell and the turbine is situated in the bottom right <strong>of</strong> a diagonally adjacent cell, they could be separated by as
much as 140 feet, yet the raster distance would only be 50 feet, a difference <strong>of</strong> 90 feet. Moreover, the resolution <strong>of</strong>
the Ortho image is 40 feet so that location could additionally be <strong>of</strong>f by another 55 feet along the diagonal. <strong>The</strong>se
two uncertainties total to roughly 150 feet for homes inside <strong>of</strong> 1.5 miles. Outside <strong>of</strong> 1.5 miles the variation between
centroid and house location for parcels smaller than 5 acres could be larger still. If a 4.9 acre parcel had a highly
irregular rectangular shape <strong>of</strong> 102 by 2100 feet, for instance, the centroid could be as much as 1050 feet from the
property line. If the home was situated 50 feet from the property line then the actual house location could be <strong>of</strong>f by
as much as 1000 feet. Adding this to the 150 feet from above leads to a total discrepancy <strong>of</strong> 1150 feet (0.22 miles)
for homes outside <strong>of</strong> 1.5 miles on parcels smaller than 5 acres. Of course, these extreme scenarios are highly
unlikely to be prevalent.
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