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It’s been a year of great things in La Jolla and here at La Jolla Today. While we’ll miss our readers over the next couple of weeks, we look forward to bringing you all the local news that’s fit to print in the new year. Look for our first issue of 2014 on Jan. 10. Happy holidays and happy new year to you and yours!

Residents unveil top-of-the-line green home in La Jolla Shores The home of tomorrow is in La Jolla today. The Nooren residence at 8001 Calle de la Plata in La Jolla Shores is the third LEED Platinum home in La Jolla. Built extensively with recycled materials and utilizing the latest in energy-efficient technology, the Nooren home is truly “green” and a model of resource conservation at all levels. LEED, or Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design, is a program that provides third-party verification of green buildings satisfying prerequisites to earn points to achieve different levels of certification. Developed by the U.S. Green Building Council, LEED is intended to help building owners and operators be environmentally responsible and use resources efficiently. The LEED rating system offers four certification levels for new construction — Certified, Silver, Gold and Platinum — that correspond to the number of credits accrued in five green design categories: sustainable sites, water efficiency, energy and atmosphere, materials and resources, and indoor environmental quality. Started in 1998, LEED standards have been applied to more

than 7,000 projects in the United States and 30 other countries, covering more than 1.5 billion square feet of development. During a Dec. 5 open house, Jack and Jill Nooren, owners of the Shores LEED-certified home, walked guests through their dwelling, discussing the finer points of energy-efficient building. “LEED recognizes that we need to become more ecologically responsible in the way we design and build homes and the reason for that obviously is we need to limit the use of our natural resources, not just water, sewer and waste but also gas and electric,” said Jack Nooren. “So the LEED process looks at the global picture, which means they examine, when you do demolition, if you’re recycling any of the content of the old structure, which is what we did.” The Nooren project featured an integrated design team con-

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HOME IS WHERE THE (GREEN) HEART IS The Nooren home at 8001 Calle de la Plata in La Jolla Shores went through an extensive process to get approval for construction. It went through even more work to make the home only the third in the community to be designated with LEED Platinum status. COURTESY PHOTOS

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Real Estate Today REAL ESTATEBRIEF >> GENERALLY, WHEN COMPARED TO 2012, single-family homes in San Diego County increased in market value by more than 20 percent in 2013, according to County Assessor/County Clerk Ernest Dronengburg, Jr. However, due to a limit imposed by Prop. 13, 71 percent of San Diego Coun-

ty residential property tax value will grow by less than a half-percent, he said. “I campaigned in 1978 when Prop. 13 passed. I support it because it limits value growth and, in turn, limits the unabated growth in taxes,” said Dronenburg. “Under Prop. 13, values cannot grow more than 2 percent or the inflation rate, whichever is lower. The

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sisting of Joseph Diasparra, Hill Construction Company, David Keitel, Domusstudio Architecture and LEED consultant Stephanie Fagen Ecopious. Among the Nooren residence’s LEED components: • Drought-tolerant and indigenous landscaping • A drip water-irrigation system • A photovoltaic, passive solarheating system featuring a 100-gallon storage tank, providing 60 percent of the home’s hot-water needs • Use of energy-saving appliances • Recycling of 75 percent of all waste generated during home construction • An LED lighting package that reduced the house’s demand for energy and electrical costs Project architect David Keitel said there are significant upfront costs associated with building a LEEDcertified home that are more than made up for over time by cost sav-

CELEBRATING THE GREEN LIFE From left, Jack Nooren, Ravi Bajaj (USGBC program manager), Joseph Diasparra (Hill Construction Co.), David Keitel (architect, domusstudio architects) and Jill Nooren.

ings. “There is an initial upcharge for building a LEED home, but there are so many efficiencies implemented through the LEED process, that it really makes what we’re doing a nobrainer,” Keitel said. “The Noorens have tax rebates and credits coming back to them on their taxes this year for building this house, which really adds up very quickly.” Nooren said he feels construction similar to that done on his home will be the rule, not the exception, in the future.

inflation rate for 2013 is less than one half of one percent. “This is the eighth time the inflation factor is less than the 2 percent limit and is the second-lowest change since passage of Prop. 13 35 years ago. Under the top adjustment factor of 2 percent, this homeowner would be facing an increase in assessed value of $7,000, but next year they will see an

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increase of $1,589 in assessed value,” he said. Properties recently sold are not subject to an inflation increase. Also, properties that, in the past, have had assessments reduced below their Prop. 13 values because their current market value was less than the Prop. 13 value are evaluated annually. If the current market value as of Jan. 1 is

“It’s a standard of how construction should be and how people should think when they build,” he said Nooren. “Everything we built in here was all about what we could recycle.” Besides conserving energy, Nooren said LEED design is also about not wasting space. “This house is only 2,350 square feet on two levels with 4 ½ baths,” he said. “We don’t have any wasted space because we have our kitchen, dining and living quarters all in one area downstairs. Nooren said the bottom line with LEED building is that, in the end, it saves money, as well as energy. “We’ve lived here almost a year now and the highest monthly bill we had was $36,” he said. “We have six inches of Styrofoam on our roof, plus hatches we can open up to to get air circulating so it never gets warm in here. We don’t have air conditioning. We never need it. How many $3 million homes get built without air conditioning? Not very many. This is one of them.”

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