3214 Via Alicante: Green Condo in La Jolla

Open Layout w/Natural Light

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Status: Not Listed!	Price: $390-420,000	Area: La Jolla
Square Feet: 1137	Year Built: 1975	Bedrooms: 2
Baths: 2	Fireplace: Wood-burning	Garage: 2 Car

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3214 Via Alicante, La Jolla, CA 92037

Welcome home to this “green home” eco-friendly townhome in La Jolla / UTC. Unit is light & bright with raised ceilings in living room. Private three level end unit in quiet part of complex. Walk/bike to UCSD, shops/grocery stores, & farmer’s markets. Great freeway access (5, 52, 805), public transportation & less than 2 miles to La Jolla shores. 2-car attached garage. New high-end Andersen 400 series windows & doors throughout ($33k spent). Private upstairs balcony off master loft area and patio off living room. The Woodlands La Jolla with its pool, clubhouse and grounds is a very nice & peaceful complex with multiple ponds, water features, & gazebo that create a “woodsy” feel.

Owner modifications include:

More open experience with removal of stair well walls and replacement of railings with an innovative cable and natural wood design.
Increased daylight and air circulation with the addition of an operable skylight in master bedroom/bath area, window in dining area and ceiling fans in living room and stair well.
Improved functionality with addition of door to connect lower bedroom directly to adjacent bath, temperature controlled hand shower in master bath, cast iron Koehler kitchen sink, Thermocast lavatories and non metallic Aquatouch faucets with anti-scald devices in both bathrooms.

Green Features & Details: about $45k was spent on green upgrades, which does not include the ingenious conception of various systems or the countless hours of labor done by homeowner.

1. Hot Water Solar: 2 Panel system on roof
2. Thermostatically controlled wood burning stove
    a. Thelin-Thompson parlor stove with waste heat recovery system. ingeniously added by owner who was a piping engineer. The waste heat recovery system heats water when stove is on and pipes the hot water through a heater in the lower level bedroom which radiates heat prior to going into the holding tank in the garage.
    b. Up to 80% efficient (as efficient as pellet stove)
    c. Uses free local/onsite wood sources to burn (pine cones, fallen branches) and logs up to 7 inches diameter and 24 inches long.
3. Solar water distiller: found on upstairs balcony and is connected to water supply. Additionally, it could easily be connected to the gutters for using rainwater when available (see item 4) or used to purify seawater, greywater etc.
4. TPO Roof: Newer roof is made with thermoplastic polyolefin (TPO), which is a clean roofing surface great for using rainwater runoff to drink and/or feed plants.
5. Electric water distiller: this is a rare piece of machinery that is connected to the water supply and can generate clean distilled drinking water to supplement the solar water distiller.
6. On-demand water heater: for shower
7. Energy Efficient Windows & Doors: dual pane Andersen windows & doors that are low e-4 and FSC certified wood.
8. Banana tree circle: permaculture designed in raised planting bed on patio w/compost area in the middle of the circle/planting bed. Papayas, tomatoes, cumbers and a pineapple are currently being grown between the dwarf banana trees.
9. Plantain trees: About 10 years old, producing trees around exterior of unit.
10. Location: walk/bike to multiple shops/stores, malls, grocery stores (Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, Ralphs, organic Fruit Stand), UCSD & 2 farmer’s markets. Excellent area for public transportation. Current owner does not own a car! He gets everywhere on his bicycle & public transportation. Sorrento Valley train station is 2 exits north off 5 freeway.