Reports & Documents

Official City of Rancho Palos Verdes

• Land Movement Updates
  The City's central landslide page: current status, survey summaries, program news, and utility links. The single most important official source.
• Landslide Surveys and Mapping
  The raw monitoring products: monthly GPS surveys (latest: August 2026), displacement-rate contour maps, and the full GPS survey dataset from September 2007 to the present.
• Landslide Management Program
  Background on the City's long-running management of the Portuguese Bend landslide, including the moratorium area and monitoring program.
• Portuguese Bend Landslide Remediation Project
  The stabilization project (originally estimated ~$33M; its $23.3M FEMA BRIC award, unpaid, was caught in FEMA's April 2025 nationwide BRIC cancellation, which a federal judge ruled unlawful in December 2025, so its status is unresolved; a new ~$20M BRIC application is also pending; a separate $48.7M HMGP application with a $12.1M committed city match is pending as of mid-2026): project description, environmental review documents, and the EIR.
• Landslide Complex Working Group notes
  Notes from the weekly interagency coordination meetings — the most granular operational record available.
• Voluntary Property Buyout Program
  Official program page: eligibility, process, funding rounds, and status of the FEMA/Cal OES-funded home purchases.
• Tax Relief and Insurance Resources
  The City's guide to property tax reassessment, Misfortune & Calamity relief, and insurance considerations for affected owners.
• Landslide Area Development Regulations
  Ordinance 692 (2025) and related rules: the permanent prohibition on new residential construction in the complex, what repairs and replacements remain allowed, and the updated boundary.
• Palos Verdes Peninsula Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan (2026)
  The peninsula's first four-city hazard mitigation plan (RPV, PVE, Rolling Hills, Rolling Hills Estates, plus ACLAD and KCLAD), FEMA-approved June 2026 — hazard assessments including landslides, mitigation strategies, and the grant-eligibility foundation for FEMA mitigation funding. Documents via PVPready.gov.
• Grant Tracker
  The City's running ledger of landslide-related grant applications and awards — the authoritative place to check the status of the buyout, remediation, and mitigation funding requests.
• City Council agendas, staff reports & video
  Staff reports attached to landslide agenda items are often the best single written source for budgets, engineering detail, and program status.

Federal & State

• NASA/JPL: Radar Imagery Reveals Details About L.A.-Area Landslides
  Airborne UAVSAR analysis (fall 2024) measuring movement extent and direction — up to ~4 inches/week in residential areas — with imagery public on NASA's Disaster Mapping Portal.
• California Geological Survey
  CGS mapped the active slides and the ancient complex (including the 2007 landslide boundaries used in most maps) and covered the 2024 acceleration in its Geology News.
• FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant Program
  The funding vehicle behind the $42M (Round 1) and $10.16M (Round 2) buyouts and the City's pending $48.7M remediation-project application.
• California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES)
  State partner on buyout funding and disaster relief for the landslide emergency.
• L.A. County Sanitation Districts — Palos Verdes Action Plan
  The Districts' sewer response in the landslide area, including the emergency above-ground bypass of ~2,000 feet of buried line along PV Drive South.
• California BOE: Palos Verdes property tax relief memo (Sept. 2024)
  State Board of Equalization documentation of tax relief measures for landslide-affected properties.

News Coverage Archives

Local outlets have covered the landslide continuously. These searches/tags surface their full archives:

• Daily Breeze
  The paper of record for the South Bay; deepest ongoing coverage.
• LAist
  Public-radio coverage including trail, spending, and community impacts.
• ABC7 · CBS LA · NBC4 · KTLA
  TV coverage of shutoffs, buyouts, and emergency actions.
• Palos Verdes Patch · Random Lengths News · Palos Verdes Pulse
  Hyperlocal reporting, including detailed council meeting recaps.
• LAist: "They lost their home in the Rancho Palos Verdes landslide. Now, they're fighting off foreclosure" (Dec. 16, 2025)
  Buyout delays in human terms — selected owners keeping mortgages current on unlivable homes, with active foreclosure a disqualifier from the program.
• The New York Times: "Homes in This California Enclave Come With a Catch: Living on a Landslide Complex" (March 13, 2026)
  National look at the slide-area real estate market — buyers accepting risk for discounted coastal property — with the accompanying video "Welcome to the Neighborhood. It's Sinking." (May require a subscription.)
• LAist: how Rancho Palos Verdes' beloved trails have been forever altered (April 2026)
  The ~16 miles of damaged Reserve trails — closures, fissures, and why full restoration is unlikely.
• Los Angeles Times: federal funds arrive for RPV landslide mitigation (May 7, 2026)
  The ~$2.3M in directed federal funding for ACLAD drainage and KCLAD dewatering wells.
• Wayfarers Chapel — Restoration updates
  Official dismantling and relocation documentation for the National Historic Landmark.