City Council Meeting Highlights

Highlights from the August 5, 2025 City Council meeting:

• To deter dangerous driving, the Council voted to lower the speed limit along the stretch of Palos Verdes Drive East known as the “Switchbacks” from 40 mph to 35 mph, and to enhance traffic signage. 
• The Council will revisit the speed limit reduction in six months to assess its effectiveness. 
• The Council introduced an ordinance amending the Rancho Palos Verdes Municipal Code to permanently prohibit new residential construction in the landslide area, including home additions, due to unprecedented land movement. 
• Property owners would be permitted to replace, restore, and repair development within its existing footprint. 
• The ordinance would also expand the boundaries of the landslide complex to take in eight properties that were not subject to the City’s Landslide Moratorium: seven in the Seaview neighborhood, and one in the Portuguese Bend Beach Club. 
• If approved on second reading at the August 19 meeting, the development regulations would take effect 30 days later. 
• Finally, the Council moved to initiate the process to form a new geological hazard abatement district to help mitigate the Portuguese Bend Landslide, the largest of RPV’s ancient landslides.
• Forming a third geological hazard abatement district in the City may offer advantages in landslide mitigation, such as exemption from the California Environmental Quality Act ad certain contracting requirements. 

For all City Council actions from the meeting, watch video at rpvca.gov/agendas.