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City continues landslide state of emergency, cites $64.4 million projected cost and adopts regional mitigation plan
Summary
Rancho Palos Verdes city manager Arum Maranian said the council continued to address the landslide state of emergency, reporting a roughly $64,400,000 projected cost for the Portuguese Bend and Altamira landslide complex and adopting the Palos Verdes Peninsula multi‑jurisdictional hazard mitigation plan to preserve grant eligibility.
Rancho Palos Verdes City Manager Arum Maranian said the City Council on March 17 continued its response to a multi‑year landslide emergency and adopted a regional hazard mitigation plan.
"The total projected cost for the greater Portuguese Bend and ancient Altamira Landslide Complex for the past 4 years is approximately $64,400,000 and is funded through multiple sources," Maranian said, reporting the figure after a 60‑day update on landslide conditions and response efforts.
The council also completed the hazard mitigation planning process and adopted the "2026 Palos Verdes Peninsula multi jurisdictional hazard mitigation plan," developed in collaboration with the four peninsula cities and Rancho Palos Verdes' two geologic hazard abatement districts. Maranian said the plan is intended to improve community safety in emergencies and to protect the region's eligibility for hazard mitigation grant funding.
Maranian said the plan will be submitted to the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) for review and then sent to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for approval. No vote tallies or motions were specified in the city manager's update; the transcript records the council's actions but does not provide mover/second or roll‑call details.
Why it matters: the landslide complex cited spans multiple neighborhoods on the Palos Verdes Peninsula and the City identified a multi‑year, multi‑source funding need of roughly $64.4 million for mitigation work. Adoption of the regional mitigation plan is the procedural step that local governments commonly take to preserve eligibility for state and federal hazard mitigation grants.
Next steps: the city will submit the adopted plan to Cal OES and FEMA for their review and approval. The city manager's update did not specify a schedule for individual mitigation projects or a funding breakdown by source.
