HOAs/Rancho Palos Verdes/LA County
Palos Verdes Seacliff Hills
Palos Verdes Seacliff Hills Homeowners Association covers the homes on Seacliff Drive, Aqua Vista Drive and Palo Vista Drive, plus 3231 Palos Verdes Drive South at the corner where Palos Verdes Drive East meets Palos Verdes Drive South. The 42 single family homes were built from 1981 to 2008 on county tracts 32574 and 34834, which WADC-Hill Top Developers recorded in 1979 and 1980 as a residential planned development. Both maps make membership in a homeowners association of the lot owners part of owning a lot, and both vest in it a common area of about 12 acres: Lot 24 on the 1979 map, shown again as Lot 27 on the 1980 map. That lot is vacant, and the maps give the city the right to prohibit homes on it. Two large lots on the 1979 map went to the city and are now open space around the Palos Verdes Drive East switchbacks. The association was formed in 1979, and the streets are public. A separate group, the Seacliff Hilltop HOA, has spoken for the owners on Vista del Mar, the third tract under the same city permit.
Quick Facts
| Type | Homeowners association |
|---|---|
| Location | Rancho Palos Verdes, Los Angeles County |
| Registered name | Palos Verdes Seacliff Hills Homeowners Association |
| Also called | Seacliff Hills, PV Seacliff Hills HOA |
| Homes | 42 single family homes |
| Built | 1981 to 2008 |
| State record | California entity 0941631, formed October 1, 1979, active |
| Boundary | County lot lines for tracts 32574 and 34834 (LA County Assessor parcels). Which lots belong comes from addresses and tract records, not the association's own map, so the edge may be off by a few lots. |
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
- The association was formed on October 1, 1979 as California entity 0941631, a nonprofit mutual benefit common interest development corporation, and its status is active.State record summary (CommunityPay); State record (OpenCorporates)
- Tract 32574 holds the homes on Seacliff Drive, Aqua Vista Drive and the west end of Palo Vista Drive. It was recorded on April 11, 1979 in map book 913, pages 86 to 93. The owner was WADC-Hill Top Developers, a partnership of Western America Development Corporation and Hill Top Developers, Inc.LA County recorded map; LA County Public Works land records; LA County Assessor roll, 2026
- The 1979 map approves the tract as a residential planned development. It vests the common area, Lot 24, in a homeowners association made up of the owners of the residential lots, and it makes membership inseparable from owning a lot. The owners also gave the city the right to prohibit homes on Lot 24, other than recreational facilities the city approves.LA County recorded map
- The same map grants Lots 25 and 26, about 46 and 48 acres around the Palos Verdes Drive East switchbacks, to the city in fee simple. A 2020 city report says the San Ramon Reserve takes in the land around the switchbacks.LA County recorded map; Rancho Palos Verdes council records
- Tract 34834 was recorded on January 2, 1980 in map book 935, pages 88 to 93, by the same owner. It splits Lots 21, 22 and 24 of tract 32574 into 27 lots: Lots 1 to 23 on Palo Vista Drive, Lots 24 to 26 at the corner where Palos Verdes Drive East meets Palos Verdes Drive South (Lot 26 is 3231 Palos Verdes Drive South), and the common area, Lot 27. The map vests Lot 27 in a homeowners association of the residential lot owners and makes membership inseparable from owning a lot.LA County recorded map; LA County Public Works land records; LA County Assessor roll, 2026
- Lot 27 has the same area as the old Lot 24, 12.07 acres gross and 9.38 acres net, and the 1980 map marks on it the city's right from the 1979 map to prohibit homes.LA County recorded map [2]
- City Conditional Use Permit No. 23, approved by the Planning Commission on July 12, 1977, made tracts 32574, 32991 and 34834 one residential planned development with set building footprints and grading limits for every lot. The developer later sold the lots one at a time. Custom homes are reviewed under the permit and the Seacliff Hills Development Guidelines, adopted in 1986 and supplemented in 1989, which cover all three tracts.Rancho Palos Verdes council records
- City planning papers also use the Seacliff Hills name for the whole planned development. The December 2015 staff report refers to tracts 32574, 32991 and 34834 as the Seacliff Hills community and says they are also known as the Seacliff Hills and Seacliff Hilltop communities. The November 2015 hearing notice places a Vista del Mar lot within the Seacliff Hills Residential Planned Development, and a 2012 city report calls tract 34834 Seacliff Hills.Rancho Palos Verdes council records; City of Rancho Palos Verdes [2]
- A listing for 3231 Palos Verdes Drive South (tract 34834 lot 26) names Palos Verdes Seacliff Hills Homeowners Association as the association.MLS listing
- City grant records show Palos Verdes Seacliff Hills HOA applying for landscaping grants in 2005, 2006 and 2007: trees and shrubs on city property west of Palos Verdes Drive East next to 3303 Palo Vista Drive (2005), shrubs and ground cover west of Palos Verdes Drive East next to the association (2006), and landscaping and irrigation around the corner of Palos Verdes Drive South and East (2007). City staff recommended denying the 2007 request because a planned Public Works project covered that work.City of Rancho Palos Verdes (archived copy) [2] [3]; City of Rancho Palos Verdes archive
- The city's running grant tables for 2005, 2006 and 2007 have no row under the Seacliff Hills name. They add those years (cycles 16, 17 and 18) to a row named Seacliff Hilltop HOA, which also lists cycles 4, 8, 9, 14 and 15. The 2023 grantee list still shows that row.City of Rancho Palos Verdes (archived copy) [2]; City of Rancho Palos Verdes archive; City of Rancho Palos Verdes
- The Rancho Palos Verdes Council of Homeowners Associations listed Seacliff Hills as a member in 2005 and 2006, and Palos Verdes Seacliff Hills in 2015 and 2025. Its 2006 and 2015 lists show Seacliff Hilltop as a separate member.RPV Council of Homeowners Associations (archived copy) [2] [3]; RPV Council of Homeowners Associations
- A September 9, 2020 city report lists Palos Verdes Seacliff Hills HOA among 35 homeowners associations next to the Palos Verdes Nature Preserve that the city had written to the week before. In a September 20, 2020 reply, the association's board wrote that Seacliff Hills residents had seen very little or no impact from the San Ramon and Ocean Trails reserves next to them.City of Rancho Palos Verdes; Rancho Palos Verdes council records
- The tract maps dedicate Seacliff Drive, Aqua Vista Drive and Palo Vista Drive to public use, and the city's street map lists them as public streets.LA County recorded map [2]; Rancho Palos Verdes city GIS
- The 2026 county roll shows 42 homes in the two tracts, built from 1981 to 2008. Lots 10, 11, 24 and 25 of tract 34834 are vacant, as is the common Lot 27.LA County Assessor roll, 2026
- A 2007 Planning Commission resolution says Conditional Use Permit No. 23, approved July 12, 1977, established the Seacliff Hills community as a residential planned development of 57 residential lots with set building footprints and grading limits. Those are the 20 home lots of tract 32574, the 26 lots of tract 34834 and the 11 lots of tract 32991 on Vista del Mar.City of Rancho Palos Verdes records; LA County Assessor roll, 2026
More information
- State corporation record (CommunityPay)
- State corporation record (OpenCorporates)
- Recorded map, tract 32574 (LA County Public Works)
- Recorded map, tract 34834 (LA County Public Works)
- City staff report with the Seacliff Hills Development Guidelines (December 8, 2015)
- City weekly report, September 9, 2020 (HOAs next to the Preserve)
Sources
- State registration summary (CommunityPay)
- State record summary (OpenCorporates)
- Recorded map, tract 32574 (LA County Public Works)
- LA County Public Works land records, query
- Rancho Palos Verdes council records
- Recorded map, tract 34834 (LA County Public Works)
- LA County Public Works land records, query
- Rancho Palos Verdes council records, City staff report with the Seacliff Hills Development Guidelines (December 8, 2015)
- City of Rancho Palos Verdes, document 1
- City of Rancho Palos Verdes, document 2
- City of Rancho Palos Verdes (archived copy), open agenda.cfm
- City of Rancho Palos Verdes archive, document 1 (PDF)
- City of Rancho Palos Verdes (archived copy), open agenda.cfm
- City of Rancho Palos Verdes (archived copy), RPVCCA SR 2007 10 02 05 Exhibit A Grant Application Summary (PDF)
- City of Rancho Palos Verdes (archived copy), open agenda.cfm
- City of Rancho Palos Verdes archive, document 2 (PDF)
- City of Rancho Palos Verdes (archived copy), document 5 (PDF)
- City of Rancho Palos Verdes, 2023 Previous Grantees List
- RPV Council of Homeowners Associations (archived copy), members
- RPV Council of Homeowners Associations (archived copy), members
- RPV Council of Homeowners Associations (archived copy), members
- RPV Council of Homeowners Associations
- City of Rancho Palos Verdes, City weekly report, September 9, 2020 (HOAs next to the Preserve)
- Rancho Palos Verdes city GIS
- City of Rancho Palos Verdes records
Some details also come from MLS listings or local agents' guides, which are named but not linked here.
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