City Council Meeting Highlights

Highlights from the August 19, 2025 City Council meeting:

• The Council adopted an ordinance amending the RPV Municipal Code to permanently prohibit new residential construction in the landslide area, including home additions. Property owners will be permitted to replace, restore, and repair development within its existing footprint.
• The new regulations will go into effect on September 18, 2025.
• City staff gave the latest updates on the landslide emergency. 
• Since June, land movement has decelerated by an average of 25% in the Abalone Cove Landslide, 24% in the Portuguese Bend Landslide, and by 25% in areas just outside the historical boundaries of these landslides, referred to as Upper Altamira. 
• The Klondike Canyon Landslide continues to see no measurable movement since mid-October 2024.
• The Abalone Cove Landslide Abatement District’s 10 deep dewatering wells, in combination with six shallow wells, removed 6.8 million gallons of groundwater in July.
• Finally, the Council renewed for 60 days the local emergencies in the landslide area and the temporary prohibition of motorcycles and bicycles along a two-mile stretch of Palos Verdes Drive South.

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