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<br />5. Property Vatues: <br /> <br />Evidences indicates that the presence <br />of wind turbines increases neighboring <br />property values, No study has ever <br />concluded that wind turbines - neither <br />large nor small - have had a depressing <br />effect on nearby residential property <br />values. <br /> <br />6. Insurance: <br /> <br />The small wind system should simply <br />be added to existing homeowner, farm, <br />or business policies asan "appurtenant" <br />(uninhabited) structure and not require <br />a separate policy. Precautions such as <br />setback requirements for wind turbines <br /> <br />7. Abandonment: <br /> <br />Some towns require assurance that any <br />non-functioning turbine will be removed <br />after a period of time to prevent <br />unnecessary clutter in a community. <br />Abandonment due to malfunction has <br />become particularly rare due to today's <br />improved technology, though a <br />community should be entitled to <br />recourse should an abandoned turbine <br />present a nuisance. <br /> <br />Security bonds may be required for <br />large, utility-scale turbines which are <br />located on land leased from a third- <br />party property owner, but these are <br /> <br />8 A fvlay 2003 study by the Renewable Energy Policy <br />Project (REPP) study, The Effect of Wind Development <br />on Local Property Values, finds that '''.Jor the great <br />majority of projects the property values actually rose <br />more qukkly in the view shed than they did in the <br />comparable community. Moreover, values increased <br />Faster in the view shed after the projects came online <br />than they did before." Available at http://www.crest.org/ <br />articles/ static/ 1/ bin aries/wind_on line_fin a I. pdf. <br /> <br />A recent survey found that most people <br />are interested in or willing to pay more <br />for homes equipped with solar panels or <br />wind turbines,9 <br /> <br /> <br />are desi'gned specifically to protect that <br />which is beyond one's own property line. <br />Homeowner's insurance policies make <br />no distinction based on how far a turbine <br />is from one's own house, so neither <br />should zoning rules. <br /> <br />Windward Engineering <br />4.25kW turbine <br /> <br />inappropriate and unduly burdensome <br />for owners of small systems who install <br />turbines on land they own,.It is <br />recommended that any small wind <br />turbine owner whose equipment is <br />inoperable for six months be notified <br />by the zoning committee that the <br />owners have six rnonthsfrom the notice <br />date to restore their system to operating <br />condition. If the owner fails, the wind <br />turbine should be removed from the <br />tower for safety reasons. The tower <br />itself would then be managed under the <br />Public Nuisance language of the rest of <br />the existing zoning code. <br /> <br /> <br />Bergey Wind Power <br />lOkW XLS turbine <br />lowered for <br />ground maintenance <br /> <br />See also: Advice from an Expert: Residential Wind <br />Turbines and Property Value. American Wind Energy <br />Assoc. http://www .awea. org/faq/sag rill o/ms_zon i ng, <br />_property valueS. html. <br /> <br />9 "Renewable Energy Study." California Energy <br />Commission, Nov. 2001. ilttp:/lwww.energy.ca.govl <br />reports/2002-04-03_S00-02-0 16. pdf. <br />p. 28 <br /> <br />