Palos Verdes Estates
Palos Verdes Estates was designed by landscape architest and planner Fredrick Law Olmstead Jr., who was the son of Fredrick Olmstead the designer of Central Park in New York City and was incorporated in 1939. Palos Verdes Estates was one of the earliest masterplanned communities in the United States. Palos Verdes Estates is mostly residential with limited commercial areas in Malaga Cove and Lunada Bay.
The city is residential, with no traffic lights and relatively limited commercial areas around Malaga Cove and Lunada Bay. One of Southern California's most expensive neighborhoods, Palos Verdes Estates' aesthetics and architecture are protected by an Art Jury, a non-governmental organization which must approve any exterior alteration to any building, fence, sidewalk, or other structure. The city was incorporated in 1939, and the area around Malaga Cove has most of the Peninsula's earlier buildings. The Malaga Cove Plaza building of the Palos Verdes Public Library, designed by Pasadena architect Myron Hunt, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. Palos Verdes Estates was one of the earliest masterplanned communitites in the United States.
City Information
City of Palos Verdes Estates
378-0383 340 Palos Verdes Drive West Palos Verdes Estates, CA 90274 www.palosverdes.com/pve
Officials: As of 2009
Ellen Perkins – Mayor Rosemary Humphrey – Mayor Pro Tem John Rhea – Council Member James F. Goodhart – Council Member George Bird – Council Member
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