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none, Demo a wall, new trellis, BBQ,, Correspondence• Cuy o/ {2 PPng Jlf£ December 20, 2006 Mr. and Mrs. Alvan Esser 71 Crest Road East Rolling Hills, CA 90274 Dear Mr. and Mrs. Esser: INCORPORATED JANUARY 24, 1957 NO. 2 PORTUGUESE BEND ROAD ROLLING HILLS, CALIF. 90274 (310) 377-1521 FAX: (310) 377-7288 E-mail: cityofrh@aol.com Please find enclosed a copy of the Final Map on your property. I asked the Rolling Hills Community Association to mail you the Final Subdivision Agreement, which is under their purview. Their phone number is (310) 544-6222. Regarding your question about the construction at 73 Crest Road East, they are redoing their patio area and constructing a new outdoor fire place. When the building inspector visited the property on Tuesday, December 19, 2006, he noticed one small cement truck pouring cement for the foundation for the fire place. No violations were found on the property. Please do not hesitate to call me if you have any other questions. I wish you both a very happy holiday season and a happy and healthy New Year. Sincerely, 7 Yolaijto Schwartz Planning Director Pnn;eilor.fi.Jc cInr{1'.rn'r • IN THE CITY OF ROLLING HILLS BEING A SUBDIVISION OF A PORTION OF LOT H OF THE RANCHO LOS PALOS VERDES, IN THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, STATE OF CALIFORNIA,ALLOTTED TO JOTHANnBIXBY BY DECREE OF PARTITION IN ACTION e BIXBY ET AL V.S. BENT ET AL" CASE NE 2373 IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE 17th JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF SAID STATE IN AND FOR SAID COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, RECORD BOOK 4 PAGE 57 OF JUDGEMENTS IN SUPERIOR COURT OF SAID COUNTY. SURVEYED BY SOUTH BAY ENGINEERING CORPORATION D11SI5 0p BEARINGS, The bearing N. 69e 38' 30" E for the centerline of Crest Road ( a private street) as shown on L.A.C.A. mop 51 recorded in Book 1, page 1, of Assessor's Mape in the Office of the county Recorder was used ps a beets of bearings for this map. we hereby certify that we e the owners of, or are inter- ested in, the lands included within the subdivision shown on this map, within the colored border lines, and we con- sent to the preparation and recordation of said map and subdivision. . -iar.+sue-e • - - QGcP P e � t3 ALVAH -. ESSER../R. NETTE E. ESSER NOTE, The signatures of the fo/lowing easement holders hove born omil/ed pursuant to Section /1507 (a) of Subdivision romp Actinosmuch as such interest cannot ripen into a fee and such signatures are not required by the governing body. Sou/.horn California Edison Company (a corporation) Eosemont Holder by deed recorded in Book 0-1776,Poge 46. of Official Records. Rolling Hills Community Association of Rancho Palos Verdes, (o corporation) Easement No/der per De<els re<orda el in Ba., o-30e� `ee ere, o. R.. 6coK c e vh O.R., ooeve, Pace /3t o.R., /Moen Reaf4e N ln6a Re conaea /' anew 297to, aAaL /e, of NeaoR e. S /ry 5e.4 3967'nee .90/, of%.ii./A✓.1 Lc., Owrrn' tie,-5 or/easements for mod purposes over portions ofse-d /ono as provided for in des/era tie, of restrictions recorded in Book 2045/, Page 30/, Officio/ Records one OS reserved in deed recorded in Book 29710 Page /8, Official Records nova e.:.,, .,., .d .•o -r //<r.r.r:,,.:,.e of S..,hoe //687.6J/be Svtl,:,. e 44.Ac/ . :/ . i y/we'o. f A prr., er .. er-u,bj owe A soils report was prepared By Cher/es 5. Howe Jr P. C.E. NS 7689, on December /3/h, /967. NOTE: A Porto of doh / and of lot Y 7a 4,r1t140‘• to S/ao<' H ea J. State of California') 9.s. Los Angeles County ) On this ��'day of.-Fnernri, 1969, befcre mc, 4i/,/t'%1„y ,6-4-,e. ✓.t a Notary Public /n and for`soid County, personally appeared A/voh E.Cbser,✓r. and Re.•net/a E. Esser known to me to be the persons who ere cutad the w,/hin instrument and acknowledged to me shot tthey�,..execute°. Ito same. NotarPublic my Commission ✓pires IA., /(/97/ Y ;�- VAN..)j,ro In,nnifi,J,. yj[ 51 ;� lor-r, n e�oewr BINcligitnta SHEET I OF 2 SHEETS FILED AT •REQUEST OF O � N . 3op6ss5gPK. IN Cad( 7$Z AT leer of MAP moans lee moriAs CO MY. r1/(q % /cR'AY t( yEEY WSW I, RAYMOND L. OUIGLEY, hereby certify that I am a Registered Civil Eningeer ( R.C.L. 7191) of the State of California, that this map consisting of two sheets, correctly represents a true and complete survey made under my supervision in April, 1966, that the monuments of the character and location shown hereon are in place, that said monuments are sufficient to enable this survey to be readily re -traced,--' - .•',>'. Raymond L. Quigley, R191 I hereby certify that all special esssssmeats levied under the jurisdiction of the City of Rolling Hills to which the land included in the within subdivision, or any part thereof, is subject and which may be paid in full, have been paid in full. o� hated /E erfney /O, 1969 L .b�ev City Clerk - Cit 42 Rolling Hill. I hereby certify that the City Council of the City of Rolling Hills by nation passed en the /argdey of F4',eRS.AooIY 1969 approved the attached map. Dated AX6Welnt'V /O , 1969 /.�..1C City Clerk, City Roiling Hills I hereby certify that I have•eaanined thin map( that it con- forms substantially to the Tentative Map and all approved alterations thereof, that all provisions of applicable sub- division ordinances of the City of Rolling Hills have been complied with and that I u satisfied that this map ie technically correct with respect to City records. Dates F-e H , 1969 52- a• Etginfrr, city of Rolling Hill■ I hereby certify that I have examined this sap( that it complies with applicable State law, and that I am satisfied that this map is techically correct in all respects not certified to by the City Engineer. Dated A=1/7biy /6 , 1969 , iN 4,, 9/nm/% Ise41.4�4 Awlarkee 7 III ROoK72'�''z- SCALE I"= 50' fd2'/R RE/22 (m Ra/;/eoee?hl arms// IV%//. Caine/ of 0 P. 297/D•/R 0 IN THE CITY OF ROLLING HILLS COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, STATE OF CALIFORNIA SURVEYED BY SOUTH BAY ENGINEERING CORPORATION Ili NW/ /Inc oho var(ob/< width eoxncn/ er 8,0: /! L<n.m..Mrtv'n. if falab R.4.1 IMr�ryr OJM. •Yn... �: ro 6✓r l rju/, w.dff.d✓.d lr/%%.'.r.MF r.n.re7 /< d. ,rrenrm wrra r,>•:,r+w ww.�e..• � !d/ rift RE.122 (/ra.r79.,c, esda .ne+h pa7t OR71706 o$ • /4 FBJ� $ /pi ?' 7 I ��� 6$00 v/14�La o AYP • I .t0 4 R '` : � f 90 g % .Ac. 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CS /der/y &•wldary of C/iy of Rn/4- 7 47/r Jahiwedery lee ar02 297/0-0 or2t.t9002 1?"‘&41°/*/ 2boti ijkaija 1an! go,-)4) �� �02 odk 0 dit y �t • s Andrea and Blake Brown 73 Crest Road East Rolling Hills, CA 90274 310-265-2970 January 15, 2001 Mr. and Mrs. Al Esser 71 Crest Road East Rolling Hills, CA 90274 Dear Al and Reinie, Several times over the last couple of years we have asked you to fix your drain that is above our driveway. Last year during the heavy rains, it poured mud down our driveway which we had to shovel out. At that time you constructed a small brick wall around the drain. That helped somewhat but did not address the primary problem of your drain being inadequate. Because your gardeners do not care for the drain, our gardener, at our expense, has assumed responsibility for maintaining and cleaning your drain. In this weekend's rain, water was gushing out over your drain and down our driveway. Our land cannot absorb both the natural run-off plus the flooding caused by your inadequate drain. Consequently, we had a landslide caused by the excess water. We anticipate a costly repair to our land. Please give me a call so you can come down and see the damage. We am seriously concerned about our hillside and trust you will find a solution to solve your drainage problems which impact our land. Sincerely, Andrea and Blake, cc : Sydney Croft RH Association Attorney Peggy Minor RH Community Association Manager Rafael Bernal District Engineering Associate Building and Safety Division 71 Crest Road East Rolling Hills, CA la September 15, 1992I1 To: Planning Commission, City of Rolling Hills CITY OF ROLLING HILLS From: A. E. Esser Re: Zoning Case 474 Requesting Permission to Construct a Detached Semi -Subterranean Garage and Sun Deck (glann. SEP 29 1992 at 73 Crest Road East Honorable Chairman, Commissioners: BY This letter presents additional information on the two most important issues, presented in writing at the original public hearing of 4/28/92(1) and letter dated 8/28/92(2) requesting denial of the above subject condi- tional use permit. LAND STABILITY: Our subdivision grading plan (3), approved June 1967 by both the City of Rolling Hills and Los Angeles County, shows an existing 25 foot high compacted fill bank, that supported our quarter acre building pad for 20 years. Also indicated was a new 31 foot high cut bank that would compensate for removing the necessary material to form a'lower level quarter acre pad in front, after the'subdiiision was graded. These two banks, combined, have successfully supported our existing pad some 56 feet above the new pad at 73 Crest, these additional 10 years since its construction, with the newly created cut bank its most important foundation component. These two banks have not only served as a stabi- lizing force, resisting any downhill movement of our 30 year residence, but also vitally helped our uphill property neighbors adjoining the common driveway off Crest Road East. Looking (hand out) at the attached vicinity map of the overall area (a) submitted by South Bay engineering Corporation for this zoning case, I took the liberty of locating Crest Road, and yellowing in the'. three houses, in a relatively straight line, above the subject project location. Not shown would be the Stringfellow house approximately 200 feet north of the McLaughlin residence, the most northerly shown on the plan. This small peninsula of land, containing these four homes, has three cut banks. Our bank is the .9.110111.111.11 -1- r tallest, and being the lowest elevation, would set upon the greatest amount of ground water, constantly flowing downhill towards the ocean. In this manner, the entire mass of the subject but bank, that was created by our approved subdivision, contributes considerably to the present stability enjoyed by, these four homes directly above the proposed excavation. All these residents are vehemently 0000sed to any disturbance or alteration of our front cut bank. as oriainallv desianed for our approved subdivision. The closest known potential stability problem on the ocean side of the proposed job site is the exposed key way and older slide area just below the Rolling Hills border. Further south, we recall the Klondike Canyon landslide, that adversely affected the RPV Seaview Tract homeowners, below us in the early 1980's. Reduced ground water levels have presently stabilized this problem. We also know about 150 feet of surface bentonite located west of the Livingston Quarry bowl on RPV's Forrestall Drive. There are other bentonite deposits underground, in the vacant area south of this portion of the Rolling Hills border, which is one of the reasons this area has not yet been developed. Clearly, the area this far south of Crest Road, on the Peninsula southern water shed, is not suitable for subterranean construction, and should stay with more conventional building. It is presently stable because frictional resistance forces have, thus far, exceeded the sum of the lands downhill gravity forces. This has been greatly aided by the fact that the amount of ground water in this area is not currently large enough, for suffi- ciently lubricating any of these bentonite deposits, to disturb this positively, constructive balance of stable forces. For the areas continued, stable future pros- pects, I insist that we should not decrease or alter any resistance forces already anoroved, and successfully serving our overall community. The subject project would not only remove approxi- mately 180 cubic yards of undisturbed Altamira shale from the toe of this stabilizing force, but fracture much more in the attempt. That's about 180 tons, or the equivalent of 18 truck loads! They would have to be careful where and how they placed that weight. We do not want this material nor any associated heavy equipment transported on our driveways. These driveways are not the usual ones seen in our City. They are two driveways, side by side, each over 600 feet long, both supported by reinforced masonry walls on each side to keep them level, and prevent their sliding down the hillside. Ours is black top, the applicant's is a concrete surface. These retaining walls -2- • show good evidence of doing what they were designed to do - maintain the stability of the subdivision. Their success must not be used as an excuse to change the original subdivision design. Nor was our subdivision typical of many others in our City. Because of natural slopes within the area to be developed of about 3 to 1, the minimum level pad of one quarter acre was about all that could be expected from a balanced grade. This has already permitted (the construction of a 4,400 square foot house plus an at- tached 3-car garage and shop, one of the largest under - roof enclosures in our immediate area. One of the reasons we have remained stable, during weather periods that have caused difficulty in other parts of the south- ern drainage shed, is strict adherence to the approved subdivision specifications and drainage, which were based upon the soundest know principles of land stability. The proposed subterranean construction in our main support cut bank is not consistent with accepted principles of land stability, in what can very easily be a critical area from a geophysical standpoint. Quoting from our Subdivision Geoloaic Investiga- tion (4) "Proposed cuts in Altamira Shale bedrock shall not exceed a slope inclination of 1-1/2 horizontal to 1 vertical. No cuts shall be made in which there is a significant component of dip out of the slope, in the absence of further investigation as to the degree of anticipated stability by the engineering geologist or the soils engineer. It is suggested that soil cuts be no steeper than 2 horizontal to 1 vertical." A little obsolete perhaps, but the principals still apply. We are not anxious to have a geologist disturbing, in any manner, our mutually -stabilizing -force cut bank. The original owners of 73 Crest Road planted this cut bank) as requested by the Los Angeles County inspec- tors at the completion of construction. The present owners have not maintained this planting, and much of it has died. This cut bank should be replanted and main- tained as originally directed by the County inspectors, rather than a target for additional subterranean con- struction, that would only subtract so many tons of rock from its originally designed and intended stabilizing force. Experience on our southern water shed has shown that once land movement starts, considerable time and expense of sewers and impervious drainage channels are required to reduce ground water and stop the landslide. Most all residents south of Crest Road would agree that the auickest and lowest cost procedure to maintain land stability would be to deny proposals such as this, that decrease the overall mass of cut slope banks, necessary -3- • • to resist any downhill land movements. Geotechnology and hydrology may be inexact scienc- es at times, but the above general principles on clearly defining and protecting existing stability forces is timelesssand needs no disclaimer. We can always use more caution in this regard, not less. It would never be too late to firmly adopt these principles south of Crest Road., Considering all the City's past, and presently three stability litigation problems, along with some restricted mortgage availability south of Crest Road, we hereby urge denial, of this detached subterranean garage and sun deck, or any other subsequent modification that would in any way affect the existing toe of this cut bank. PRIVACY: The proximity of the proposed garage and sun deck, squarely in our channel view, would severely reduce our privacy. The property line between numbers 71 and 73 Crest was set as high as it was to guarantee a balanced grade of the City's minimum quarter acre pad, in spite of the inaccuracies of an aerial survey, poT to permit a flat sun deck construction, close to the minimum property setback! We thank the Planning Chairman and Commissioners for their considerable time and effort on this case that is so important to our immediate community. Very truly yours, (44titialEW,t/ Reinette Esser/A. Esser Bill Stringfellow Joe McLaughlin Fred Ripley Dr. Leo Schleissn cc: Sidney . Croft, Association Attorney Doug McHattie, South Bay Engineering Peggy Minor, Rolling Hills Community Association Lola Ungar, Rolling Hills Principal Planner Attachment: South Bay Engineering Location Drawing for I Zoning Case 474, Rec'd. 4/13/92 Reference: (1) A.E.E./R.E. to R. H. Planning Commission; 4/28/92, 3 pgs. (2) A.E.E./R.E. to R. H. Planning Commission, 8/28/92, 2 pgs. (3) South Bay Engineering Drawing, Revision of 7/26/67 (4) Maurseth, Howe, Lockwood & Asso. 2/3/67 R3/E i► -4-