By SARAH SHMERLING | Editor-in-Chief
Pacific Palisades Community Council will host a special meeting on Monday, May 20, at 5 p.m. via Zoom to discuss the Tramonto Slide in Castellammare.
“PPCC will hold a special meeting … to discuss the Tramonto Slide underlying the hillside slope slippage that has caused the PCH lane closure, as well as the planned construction of three large homes at the bulkhead of the slide area,” read an email ahead of the meeting.
PPCC reported that it has asked representatives from the city of Los Angeles, as well as the developer, to attend the meeting to “inform the community of their development plans as well as provisions for safety.”
“Caltrans has made clear they will not clean up the slide or restore the lane unless and until the Tramonto Slide is stabilized by the City,” PPCC reported. “They will stripe this portion of PCH in order to allow two lanes of traffic to flow in both directions, but this will encroach on the shoulder to one side. The hillside slippage that has cascaded to block one lane of PCH is not a matter of debris, but an unstable slope that overhangs this portion of PCH.”
The special meeting comes on the heels of PPCC’s recent regular board meeting on Thursday, May 9, where Area 1 Representative Murray Levy gave a report and presentation on the slide, as well as its “historically unstable soil.”
“He walked the board though this visual presentation and informed us that in 2010, the city of LA commissioned a report to learn how best to stabilize the slope, which was the sight of an earlier landslide,” PPCC continued. “The report issued findings rooted in soil stabilization estimated at $25 million. Nothing has been done since.”
Residents of Castellammare will have a chance to present their comments and concerns during the special meeting, PPCC added.
More information, including a link to the Zoom meeting, is available at the PPCC website.
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