Portuguese Bend Community Association

Details

• The association registered with the state on August 18, 1947 (entity 0219617) and is active. It is a California nonprofit mutual benefit corporation governed by its articles, bylaws and Declarations of Protective Restrictions, which serve as its CC&Rs.State record summary (CommunityPay); Association document
• County records date tract 14118 to July 1947 and tracts 14195 and 14500 to April 28, 1948. PBCA's 2022 GIS notice recognizes the Portuguese Bend tract map filed July 21, 1947. The notice names tract 14118, with its roads and easements, as Zone 6, the East Side of the community.LA County Public Works land records; Association document
• The neighborhood has gated entrances on Narcissa Drive and Peppertree Drive, and the association posts its notices on bulletin boards at both gates.Association document; City of Rancho Palos Verdes
• The association maintains the roads in the private community, and its standards say building approval fees help support road and gate maintenance. In 2024 it asked the city for a loan to repair roads damaged by land movement.City of Rancho Palos Verdes; Association document
• Narcissa Drive, Peppertree Drive, Sweetbay Road, Cinnamon Lane, Vanderlip Drive and the other streets in the neighborhood are private in the city's street map. Easements along lot edges are dedicated to the association for roads, streets and utilities. All roads count as fire lanes, and parking is not allowed on Peppertree Drive or Narcissa Drive.Rancho Palos Verdes city GIS; Association document
• No building or structure may be built, altered or repaired without plans approved through the Architectural Committee, which reviews new homes, remodels, fences, stables and landscaping and gives its recommendation to the board. The current Building Regulations and Architectural Standards are Revision R of November 7, 2022, which add to the October 1, 1992 standards.Association document [2]
• The standards favor low ranch style homes that follow the land. New homes need at least 1,500 square feet of living area and a three car garage. Habitable area is capped at 4,000 square feet or 15 percent lot coverage, whichever is smaller, and buildings must stay under 16 feet above finished grade.Association document
• Keeping horses needs a stable permit from the Architectural Committee under the association's Equine Criteria of June 1, 1991, with a limit of three horses per membership.Association document
• For sale signs are not allowed. Public open houses are limited to the first Sunday of the month and broker open houses to the Tuesday before, with a gate guard posted for both. Large truck deliveries must use the Peppertree gate.Association document [2]
• The gated area holds the Vanderlip estate, built by the original developer of Palos Verdes, and the gatehouse at the Narcissa Drive entrance was built as the estate's gatehouse.local agent's guide
• The Portuguese Bend Riding Club is at 40 Narcissa Drive.City of Rancho Palos Verdes
• The association's mailing address is P.O. Box 2908, Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA 90274.Association document; City of Rancho Palos Verdes
• The whole neighborhood is inside the city's mapped Greater Portuguese Bend landslide complex. Tracts 14195 and 14500 and Vanderlip Drive are almost all inside the Abalone Cove Landslide Abatement District, formed in 1981 and funded by assessments on property within it, while tract 14118 on the east side is almost all outside it.Rancho Palos Verdes city GIS; City of Rancho Palos Verdes
• Land movement led to gas and power shutoffs in 2024, and about 140 households were under an evacuation warning in September 2024. The city reported in August 2026 that the PBCA neighborhood was still without grid power and that the city pays to run the generators for the sewer system serving it.City of Rancho Palos Verdes [2]
• In its April 24, 2024 loan request to the city, the association called PBCA a private gated community that pays for its own road maintenance and repairs, and named Narcissa and Peppertree Drives as the only two roads in and out of the community.Rancho Palos Verdes council records
• A PBCA parking flyer posted on its site says signs at both entrance gates mark all roads as fire lanes and that all PBCA roads are private.Association document
• The city owns, maintains and operates the neighborhood's sewer, the Abalone Cove Sanitary Sewer System, which uses grinder pumps at about 40 locations and four pump stations.Rancho Palos Verdes council records

More information

• Portuguese Bend Community Association website
• PBCA public documents (standards, rules, policy statement)
• PBCA Building Regulations and Architectural Standards, Revision R (PDF)
• PBCA rules for real estate signs and open houses (PDF)
• PBCA history page
• State corporation record (CommunityPay)
• City land movement updates, 2026

Sources

• State registration summary (CommunityPay directory)
• Association document, PBCA Annual Policy Statement 2023 (PDF)
• LA County Public Works land records
• Association document, PBCA GIS Disclaimer PDF Official (PDF)
• City of Rancho Palos Verdes, City land movement updates, 2026
• City of Rancho Palos Verdes, 2024 Community Updates Archive
• PBCA Building Regulations and Architectural Standards, Revision R (PDF)
• Rancho Palos Verdes city GIS, document 1
• PBCA rules for real estate signs and open houses (PDF)
• City of Rancho Palos Verdes, EPC EQUINE HANDBOOK 4 27 26
• Rancho Palos Verdes city GIS, MapServer
• Rancho Palos Verdes council records, MetaViewer
• Association document, PBCA Parking Warning Flyer October 2022 (PDF)
• Rancho Palos Verdes council records, MetaViewer

Some details also come from MLS listings or local agents' guides, which are named but not linked here.