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Palos Verdes Homes Association

Palos Verdes Homes Association (PVHA), formed in 1923, enforces the protective restrictions first recorded in the 1920s for Palos Verdes Estates and for six original Miraleste tracts off Palos Verdes Drive East in Rancho Palos Verdes. Every owner of record is a member. The area holds 5,633 homes built from 1924 to 2025, 5,270 of them single family homes. The association's Art Jury, six members appointed by the board, must approve any change to the outside of a building or yard, including new houses, additions, paint colors, roofs, windows, fences and tree removal. When Palos Verdes Estates became a city in 1939, the city took over the roads and parkways and the association kept the restrictions. Its own staff run the office at 320 Palos Verdes Drive West, next to City Hall, where the plans for every structure are kept. PVHA advises buyers to make compliance with the restrictions a condition of purchase and to ask the seller to order a Completion and Compliance inspection, which checks the outside of the home against those plans.

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Quick Facts

TypeMaster association
LocationPalos Verdes Estates, Los Angeles County
Also calledPVHA, Palos Verdes Homes Association & Art Jury, Palos Verdes Art Jury, Palos Verdes Homeowners Association
Homes5,633 mostly single family homes, plus some condominiums and apartments
Built1924 to 2025
ManagementRun by its own staff from an office at 320 Palos Verdes Drive West, on the east side of Palos Verdes Estates City Hall.
Phone(310) 373-6721
Office320 Palos Verdes Drive West, Palos Verdes Estates, CA 90274
State recordCalifornia entity 0104057 (formerly C0104057), formed May 24, 1923, active, nonprofit mutual benefit corporation
IRS recordEIN 95-1085020, 501(c)(4), exempt since September 1925
BoundaryThe Palos Verdes Estates city limits plus county lot lines for tracts 7145, 8471, 9302, 5518, 8696 and 8677 and lots on Lorraine Rd (LA County Assessor parcels).
Contacts checked2026-11-04

Boundaries come from city GIS records, county tract maps or county parcel lines and are not survey lines. Management companies change, so confirm the contact with the association before relying on it. Board members and homeowners are never listed here.

Details

  • Palos Verdes Homes Association was formed as a nonprofit cooperative corporation. Its articles were signed on May 16, 1923 and filed with the California Secretary of State on May 24, 1923, with five directors.Palos Verdes Homes Association
  • Commonwealth Trust Company, as owner, signed the Declaration of Establishment of Basic Protective Restrictions for Palos Verdes Estates, dated June 26, 1923 and recorded in Book 2360, page 231 of Los Angeles County Official Records. Bank of America later became its successor in interest, and by 1930 Bank of America held the land as trustee of the Palos Verdes Project trust.Palos Verdes Homes Association; pveopenspace.com
  • Frank A. Vanderlip bought the Palos Verdes land in 1913 and hired the Olmsted Brothers to plan it. Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. helped draft the protective restrictions.Palos Verdes Homes Association
  • PVHA dates the Art Jury to 1923. Its history page says the first Art Jury members met on November 21, 1922, at the Hotel Redondo.Palos Verdes Homes Association [2]
  • The Art Jury has six members appointed by the PVHA board to staggered three year terms. Three must be practicing architects, and PVHA's handbook describes the jury as five registered architects and a landscape designer. Members sit out the review of their own projects.Palos Verdes Homes Association [2]
  • No structure can be built or altered without Art Jury approval. Review covers new houses, remodels and additions, repainting, reroofing, windows and doors, landscaping, fences and walls, pools, solar panels and tree removal.Palos Verdes Homes Association [2]
  • The 1923 restrictions say a design must be reasonably good of its kind to be approved, and that materials must not imitate other materials. The Art Jury accepts or rejects plans and does not redesign them.Palos Verdes Homes Association
  • The restrictions set architectural districts, Type I through Type VI, each with rules on style, color, materials and roof pitch, and roof zones A through G that set roof materials. Type I calls for a California type drawn from Mediterranean building, generally light in color, with tile roofs.Palos Verdes Homes Association
  • The Art Jury does not allow asphalt or composition shingle roofs except under solar panels. It also does not allow vinyl windows or fencing, domed skylights, or overhead sports court lights. Removing a tree over 20 feet tall needs written PVHA approval.Palos Verdes Homes Association
  • Smaller projects go to the Art Jury on Tuesdays. Larger projects go to the Full Art Jury, which meets every other Monday. Art Jury meetings are confidential, though Planning Commission members are invited to observe.Palos Verdes Homes Association [2]
  • The Art Jury approves how a building looks and the city approves how it is built. In Palos Verdes Estates, neighbors within 300 feet are notified when a project goes to the city Planning Commission under the Neighborhood Compatibility Ordinance.Palos Verdes Homes Association
  • PVHA keeps the plans for every structure in Palos Verdes Estates and Miraleste. Owners can view the plans for their own property at no charge, and staff consultations are free.Palos Verdes Homes Association [2]
  • PVHA advises buyers to make compliance with the deed restrictions a condition of purchase. Its Completion and Compliance inspection, ordered by the owner, listing agent or escrow officer, compares the outside of the house and yards with the approved plans, and a buyer takes on any unapproved items after escrow closes.Palos Verdes Homes Association [2]
  • Sellers in Palos Verdes Estates also need a real property report from the city under Section 5.25.030 of the city's Municipal Code.Palos Verdes Homes Association
  • PVHA has no field investigators, so some work done without approval goes unnoticed until a sale, when buyers are usually required to bring the property into compliance.Palos Verdes Homes Association
  • All owners of record in Palos Verdes Estates and Miraleste are members, with one vote per property. The five member board is elected at the annual meeting, held the second Tuesday of January, when a voting quorum is reached. Directors are not paid.Palos Verdes Homes Association [2] [3]
  • Changing the restrictions on a lot takes an amendment approved by the Art Jury and the board, signed by owners of two thirds of the private land within 300 feet, and recorded with the county.Palos Verdes Homes Association
  • Under the 1923 basic restrictions, the rules ran to January 1, 1960. After that, they renew on their own for 20 year periods, unless owners of more than half the land area, not counting streets, parks and open spaces, record a change in the six months before a renewal date. The next renewal date is January 1, 2040.pveopenspace.com
  • Before Palos Verdes Estates became a city, PVHA maintained the roads, parks, a golf course and a swim club and provided police and fire protection.Online Archive of California
  • When the city incorporated on December 20, 1939, it took over roads, parkways and planted areas, and PVHA kept jurisdiction over the protective restrictions.City of Rancho Palos Verdes; Wikipedia
  • On June 12, 1940, the Palos Verdes Estates City Council passed Resolution 12 accepting the deeds to the park properties, including PVHA's grant, and asking the county to cancel the delinquent taxes on them.pveopenspace.com
  • The full Protective Restrictions, board agendas and resolutions are posted in a members only portal on pvha.org for registered owners.Palos Verdes Homes Association
  • The office is at 320 Palos Verdes Drive West on the east side of City Hall. It is open 9 am to 5 pm Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and closed to the public on Tuesdays. The contact page lists walk in hours of 9 to 11 am and other times by appointment, as posted in November 2026.Palos Verdes Homes Association; City of Palos Verdes Estates (archived copy)
  • The IRS lists PVHA as a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization, exempt since September 1925, EIN 95-1085020. Its return for the year ending June 2025 shows 97 percent of revenue from program services. ABC7 reported in March 2026 that PVHA is funded by the fees it charges for submitting and approving documents.IRS filings (ProPublica); ABC7
  • The state corporation record, as shown on OpenCorporates, lists it as an active nonprofit mutual benefit corporation, entity number 0104057 (formerly C0104057), with a common interest development statement amendment filed in October 2015.State record (OpenCorporates)
  • Properties in the Miraleste section of Rancho Palos Verdes are also under recorded deed restrictions that PVHA enforces. The city of Palos Verdes Estates calls it the original Miraleste area.Palos Verdes Homes Association; City of Palos Verdes Estates (archived copy)
  • The Miraleste restrictions date to the 1920s, when the area was unincorporated county land. PVHA kept them after Palos Verdes Estates incorporated, and Miraleste later became part of Rancho Palos Verdes.City of Rancho Palos Verdes
  • The Palos Verdes Library District's PVHA collection files the Miraleste protective restrictions under Tracts 5518, 7145, 8471, 8677, 8696 and 9302. It is the only Miraleste entry in the collection's restrictions series.Online Archive of California [2]
  • Bank of America recorded the first two Miraleste tracts in 1924: Tract 7145 on May 28 and Tract 8471 on June 19. Both carved up part of Lot A of the larger Tract 6881, and both maps dedicated their roads to public use. Tract 5518, recorded July 29, 1925, redrew part of Tract 8471 (Block 5889, Lot 1 of Block 5888 and Lot L). Tract 9302, recorded July 8, 1926 and signed by Bank of America and the Palos Verdes Corporation, redrew lots in several blocks of Tract 7145 together with a piece of the old rancho land beside it.LA County recorded map [2] [3] [4]
  • Tract 8696, recorded January 28, 1925, redrew part of Tract 8471 (Block 5893 and lettered lots D to G and P). Tract 8677, recorded February 5, 1925, redrew part of Tract 7145 (Blocks 4801 and 4802 and Lot Q) and dedicated Miraleste Plaza to public use.LA County recorded map [2]
  • Tract 8677 holds the Miraleste Plaza business lots. Miraleste Plaza was one of four commercial sites planned for Palos Verdes Estates and Miraleste, with Malaga Cove, Lunada Bay and Valmonte.Palos Verdes Library District archive; LA County Assessor roll, 2026
  • The August 1928 Palos Verdes Bulletin reports Art Jury approval of a new Miraleste house on Lot 1 of Block 4904, at the corner of Via Lorenzo and Via Vico, and another in Block 4906 on Via Siena east of Bramante Plaza. The county roll puts 4004 Via Vico, built in 1928, on Lot 1 of Block 4904 in Tract 7145, and Block 4906 on Via Siena and Via Lorenzo in the same tract.Palos Verdes Homes Association; LA County Assessor roll, 2026
  • The Miraleste tracts take in Miraleste Drive from 4004 to 4325, Via Colinita, Via Siena, Via Lorenzo, Via Frascati, Corsini Place, Bramante Plaza, Via La Paloma, Via Vico, Via del Plaza, 4500 Maine Road, Lorraine Road, Nancy Road, Picardie Road, El Tesoro Place, Beauvais Road, Via Ciega, Via Subida from 6200 to 6217, Via Canada from 6216 to 6624 except 6609, 6611 and 6615, 6476 and 6601 Via de Anzar, Miraleste Plaza, and Palos Verdes Drive East from 3808 to 4524 except 4201. They hold 336 homes built from 1925 to 2021.LA County Assessor roll, 2026
  • Across Palos Verdes Estates and Miraleste, county assessor records show 5,633 homes: 5,270 single family homes, 146 condominium units, and 217 apartment units in 29 buildings, built from 1924 to 2025. The count leaves out 83 vacant residential lots.LA County Assessor roll, 2026

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